Meeting against Media Terrorism does gather real journalism people

ABN.- On the contrary to the Meeting of the Inter American Press Association (IAPA), the Latin American Meeting against Media Terrorism is carried out with real journalism members.

In a press conference carried out at the Latin American Studies Center Rómulo Gallegos (CELARG, Spanish acronym), the Director of the Agencia Bolivariana de Noticias (ABN), Freddy Fernández, held this Thursday: “We know that those who are gathered (at the IAPA meeting) are the real owners of big mass media companies”, he said.

In this sense, the main spokesman of the meeting preempted some international mass media arguments, who were distorting the real objective of this meeting, which coincides with the IAPA meeting.

“IAPA meeting and this one have nothing similar at all. An very elite club is gathered over there: the mass media owners; and this meeting is among journalists, in which professionals with a long experiences are taking part in it”, Fernández stressed.

Moreover, he deemed: “They have big companies owners' interests, so they are going to say and decide what is going to appear in the mass media”.

However, Freddy Fernández believes that the fact both events are taking place at the same time is something interesting, because the goals of each of them are evidenced.

In this sense, he stated that “if the employers can hold a meeting, why the employees can not gather and discuss, most of all from their perspective, such an important element as it is the journalism”.