This week I had an exchange of words with the President. It ended on Thursday in the Ariel Lijo court in Tribunales. In these days I noticed that the President, many times, is not aware of his role and
is surrounded by a chorus of pimps
who justify him in the face of any rudeness.
"
Milei is like that
," I heard a thousand times, as if she were incurable.
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And? Don't you have the right to respond to criticism in the same tone that criticizes you?
The relationship between politicians and critics is old and exceeds Milei himself. Politicians expect us journalists to go and liven up their fifteenth parties and, furthermore, to keep our mouths shut. Milei, to make matters worse,
went from panelist to president in fifteen minutes
and still doesn't understand his new job.
The president confuses criticism with complaints or, rather,
responds to criticism with complaints
: I criticized the presence of the Israeli ambassador at a Cabinet meeting and he called me “overstated.” Formally, Milei's confrontation with the press began in 2021, when he sued five journalists: Pablo Duggan, Fabián Doman, Pablo Vilouta, Débora Plager and Martín Candalaft, all from America at that time.
At that moment
the concept of “enveloped journalists” was born,
which earned him strong criticism from FOPEA. Before, in 2018, he invited Carlos Gabetta, director of Le Monde Diplomatique, to fight live, threatened economic journalist Claudio Zlotnik (“I'm going to rub your face on the floor”), attacked journalist Teresita Frías in Salta, and He accused the Chequeado team of “serial liars.” In recent months he attacked TN journalist Jésica Bossi, Romina Manguel, Marcelo Bonelli, Joaquín Morales Sola, Víctor Hugo Morales, María O'Donnell, Silvia Mercado, Luisa Corradini, Jorge Fontevecchia, María Laura Santillán, etc., etc.
"People don't care about forms,"
a representative of the LLA small table tells
Clarín
. The person who has to take a train and two buses to go to work and gets mugged or gets stranded on a picket line doesn't care about Javier's ways. Attacks on the press are part, like the leather jacket, of mileist marketing
.
The same marketing that today, as the months go by,
loses its fight against reality
: the “reform” to the public sector is a tenth of what was announced, the senators increased their diet to seven million and in cleaning up the State they were left inexplicably uncleaned areas: sugar in Tucumán, fishing, Tierra del Fuego, Mr. del Tabaco, etc.
It should be said quietly. I don't want Milei to get angry.