are 72 opinions expressed by journalists, civil society, academia and delivery specialists compiled editorial that presented the Mexican Association of Right to Information (AMEDI ) last night at Casa Lamm. "Various, plural, and sometimes contrasting "the responses were issued to participants to answer the question and title of the book What legislation is needed for the media in Mexico?, it was delivered to each of the five hundred members of the sixtieth legislature so they could study, think and "be aware, in time, about the gaps and slopes on the course you have to take the law into a democratic transformation of the media," said Beatriz Solís Leree, board member Amedia.
During the ceremony showed the need to a brake legislative monopoly structure in the media affecting the generation of broad content including the right to information, health, education, and culture in the media. Addressed the need to regulate the issue of media campaigns on behalf of people who promote their political image resources from the public purse and the urgency of breaking the symbiotic relationship between political interests and associations of media, and that they be subjected to constant public scrutiny.
regard José Antonio Crespo, a professor of the Center for Economic Research and Teaching (CIDE) and who made the contribution Decentralization State media signals and recalled the televised episode of Law, and the lack of rules to ensure accountability, as well as the urgency of the media are reporting apparatus and not the other, "serve to hide corruption that detrimental to the collective interest of state autonomy. "
As for spending public funds on ads and television appearances outside during election campaigns by public officials, Antonio Crespo recalled that Article 134 of the Constitution prohibits that public funds are used to promote people, "it violates the spirit of the law to promote purposes Personally, I think the performance of Enrique Peña Nieto, for example, to justify its popularity, but the fact of appearing in newsletters and inserts paid, there, obviously mocking the law and this is due to the absence of a regulation. "
Professor of CIDEaffirmed the need to break vicious cycles between politicians and broadcasters, "is an extraordinary instrument of blackmail, the parties rely on television and therefore do not reform the law, technically there is a solution, but politically no, because there is no will to do so, it will be very difficult if the parties do not go together. But no one millimeter based on their particular to give rise to a background transition, the media consortiums are real powers, "said Antonio Crespo.
Meanwhile, Javier Corral, chairman of the Senate Interior Committee of the Republic, said the current legislature has more legislators than ever to push for these reforms, "many do not know the technical terms mean when spoken on media, or radio spectrum, or broadband, but many have the perception that the determinations have been made in media have been unconstitutional, this is the real environment in which you receive this book, but it needs to Congress organized social momentum and AMEDI is a great tool for this. All in all the reform will come out in the coming years, would be suicidal to want to repeat past electoral processes and media powers are reversed by the branches of government would reach a level of social tension very dangerous, "said also former director of Amedia. During the presentation
Fatima Fernandez Christlieb, professor at the Faculty of Political Science at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, who participated in the book with a paper replica, right unregulated, said that a new cycle in the history of distributing Mexico media that comes with civil society and said the book has a clear language and synthesis and that "rather than technical, it is political because it is designed to benefit citizens, students and the media themselves not only legislators or specialized audiences, "he said.
On the way to take the media legislation, Fernández Christlieb said that since the state's power can break the "vicious circle" but with the support of society "in a forceful way of participation as this release, which is not an incomprehensible monstrosity. "
As said Antonio Castro Leal in 1966, continues the professor, 'the people of Mexico hopes', but not quiet stand idly by, so AMEDI, delivers this book in time for lawmakers to study and for society to continue waking up, "said after your participation.
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