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Opinion | 14 July, 2006 [ 07:43 ]

César Hildebrandt: 'Elefantastic" media is worrysome

In an interview with Radio RPP, Peruvian TV moderator César Hildebrandt expressed his concerns about the journalistic quality presented in Peru's mass media.
“The 'elefantastic' style of our press worries me" said the journalist when commenting that in a country filled with omissions and lacking proper authorities, like Peru, the mass media is in charge to dictate the agenda, to decide what is bad or good and to demonize or to idolize.

In his opinion this will change when the media companies' decision-makers improve their “quality”.

In Peru, he added, investigative journalism is simply suspicions turned into certainties, indications turned into conclusiveness, speculations are slanted with ideology and inner demons, converted into a journalistic report or article and presented to the viewer or reader who generally “swallows it”.

“We are here to inform about the truth, until it becomes discomforting”, he remembered. "A journalistic investigation requires time, money and specialized people. An investigative report awarded with the "Pulitzer" takes at least eight months. But in our country media companies demand that investigations are completed in four days.

When being asked about his impression of president-elect Alan Garcia, he responded that Garcia is his own worst enemy, the same problem that Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez has, who thinks that he is the reincarnation of liberator Jose Bolivar, but with oil.

Hildebrandt thinks that Garcia Perez wanted to make history and create tremendous things during his first five years in office, but the possibility that unconsciously he may screw up again.

“I think that he has changed. I believe that the criticism and blows, the experience, his exile, the shame to have governed so badly, have changed him”, he expressed.

In the case of nationalistic leader Ollanta Humala, he considered that he discredited the opposition with his violence, the stupidity of his family, the anarchistic character of his proposals and with his rather darksome spirit of change.

As for Alejandro Toledo, he believes he is one of those presidents whose legacy will soon be forgotten.

tags : Peru opinion politics Toledo Humala Garcia Cesar Hildebrandt journalism

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