Press workers in Argentina are in a state of alert after President-elect Javier Milei announced that he will privatize the public media, which would affect around 4,000 reporters, photographers, cameramen, designers, editors and administrative staff. teleSUR
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00:00 Business workers in Argentina are on alert after President-elect Javier Millet announced
00:04 that he would privatize the public media.
00:06 The decision would affect some 4,000 reporters, photographers, cameramen, designers, editors,
00:11 and administrative staff.
00:13 According to estimates, such a measure would impact Radio Nacional, which was founded in
00:17 1937, the national news agency TELAM, founded in 1945, and TelevisiĂłn PĂşblica in 1951,
00:25 which are all headquartered in Buenos Aires, but have offices all over the country.
00:30 In response to Millet's warnings, the Argentinean Federation of Press Workers and the Press
00:34 Union of Buenos Aires have already started to organize assemblies in the affected media
00:39 under the slogan "Without public media, there is no democracy."