Imagine, if you will, that Twitter existed during the Dictadura. Now, imagine all of the immense slurring and derogatory flaming that Cristina received in the w

Imagine, if you will, that Twitter existed during the Dictadura. Now, imagine all of the immense slurring and derogatory flaming that Cristina received in the weeks prior to the recent presidential election, but now switch Cristina for 1976' first de facto leader Jorge Rafael Videla. I personally applaud and defend* their right to express themselves like that, but the situation would have been a wee bit different back then. A bit of packet sniffing and moments later you are being thrown off a plane. My family paid taxes for government media (such as the official channel) for all of the presidents since the return to democracy in 1983. This government suddenly is the first to get the slack. The slack that Clarín has never given to previous governments due to the kisses and cuddles and proven corruption). The government didn't pick a monopoly, there's only one! All other so called monopolies (not even close to Clarín's shadow) are also bound by law, and access to documentation from judiciary and administrative branches can offer a lot of insight into the enforcement of the law. The government passed a "Media law" against monopolies. It was certainly proven that Clarín is one. Clarín then manages to have the law stopped by a friendly judge, a friendship going all the way back to the military process! It is not true that they tried to close Clarín. They don't want to control the paper. They want to make the single, biggest source of paper in Argentina (Papel Prensa) equally price their paper, and not have an unfair advantage to their owners. Cristina doesn't run an enterprise. The government is every one of us, and I'd like to be able to print 10.000 papers by paying the same competitive price that Clarín. Don't forget Clarín's role on the Dictadura, let's make a toast for expropriation! http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ea/Brindis_Noble_Videla.jpg http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ea/Brindis_N... Please, don't try to put all Kirchneristas in the same bag. The same goes for the opposition. The extremists from both sides will fling personal attacks all around, but there are a lot of people that enjoy having a discussion and trying to find the logic behind this whole clusterfuck of information crossfire. This discussion about the media is occurring all around the world (Brazil, Mexico are immense examples, I don't know much about the US). It's not that Cristina is Satan and woke up one day feeling bipolar (another stupid attack) and tried to destroy media concentration. *: I also applaud and defend their right to consume a single source of information and blindly defend points that were heard in the background noise from a TV while they are having dinner. I understand the pain though. Trying to consume information and different takes on a story can be exhausting. "A man with a watch knows what time it is. A man with two watches is never sure." I got a bit carried away, sorry for the wall of text!