Daniel Bilotta/CPJ Guest Blogger
Daniel Bilotta is a journalist and professor of communications at the National University of Lomas de Zamora.
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In battle with Argentine president, a misstep by Clarín
The debut of the HD version of Grupo Clarín’s cable news station TN could not have come at a worse time for the Argentine media conglomerate. Conspicuously missing from Monday’s premiere was coverage of a new criminal complaint in which Clarín’s lawyers accused the government of President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner of inciting violence against the…