Andres Manuel Lopez Obradorpresident of the republic, presented new data at his press conference on February 17 to reaffirm that Televisa gave little screen time to coverage of the trial of Genaro Garcia Luna and that, instead of it, he preferred to cover the scandal of Layda Sansores.
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In its morning held in the state of Sonora, the president commented that, although Televisa In previous days he assured with numbers that he gave the necessary importance to the scandal of the former secretary of security, he had other information.
“About two days ago we said that the media in the country were not spreading the García Luna case sufficiently. What’s more, that’s why we had made the decision to report here in the morning because there was a kind of concealment, ”said the president, and then resumed what he had said a few days ago: that the company was spending more time covering the case of Layda Sansores that the judgment of the then Secretary of the Treasury of Felipe Calderon.
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AMLO said that Televisa had answered his arguments, assuring that it was a lie, and that they had given 4 hours to the trial case in contrast to one hour for the current scandal. Governor of Campeche.
“The president is right. The trial against Genaro García Luna in New York is a very important issue, and what has become known in this process is the corrupting power of the organized crime in our country,” said Enrique Acevedohost of the news program “O’clock”to later show the diffusion data of both cases.
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The new data presented during the morning, ensure that from Monday, February 6 -the date on which the Campeche videos appeared- until Monday, February 13, the star program of Enrique Acevedo dedicated almost 5 minutes to the case of Layda Sansores and only 11 minutes to trial. These data, according to the president, correspond to the Las Estrellas channel.
Data regarding Enrique Acevedo’s newscast provided by N+, a media outlet, were also shown, illustrating that En Punto is seen by more than 8 million of people on average, numbers much higher than those of the media that compete directly with the Televisa program, as is the case of the newscast “Al Aire” whose average viewership is 2.9 million.
The information about the numbers of the Televisa’s stellar newscast They were given to emphasize the number of people who “received more information on the Campeche issue than on the García Luna trial.” “No, because Layda is very important, for the stars channel”, commented AMLO ironically.
After finishing the capsule, Andrés Manuel López Obrador closed the topic saying “Just clarify, we have to be reporting” and added that this dynamic was a good discussion that suited everyone because before it was “pontificated and could not be replicated. It was what the media said and nothing more”.
The president concluded by saying that fortunately on Televisa and in all the media there is an attitude of openness that accept the replyand that this was precisely what they were exercising.
The television station has not yet responded to the president’s new data, but taking into account the last clarification in Enrique Acevedo’s newscast, it is expected that the issue will be taken up again.
The president’s data was taken up by the account of Official Twitter of the Government of Mexico where comments such as: “As much as the Mexican media want to keep quiet about the García Luna case and not name Calderón or Fox, world newspapers do,” and other very different ones that criticized the governor could be read. from Campeche.
