Télam presented his documentary “Malvinas, The Means of War” before students, authorities and residents of the National University of La Matanza (Unlam), which delves into the role of national and foreign media during the waran activity that included the participation of the president of this public news agency, Bernarda Llorente.
Before a room full of students, the Undersecretary of Communication of Unlam, Ariel Dell ‘Aquila, opened the event highlighting the high impact that the documentary has “to learn more about our history”, at the same time that he stressed that “authorities of the Argentine flag agency present it in our high house of studies”.
For his part, Llorente stressed that “Telam and Public Television premiered this documentary, which is already on all networks and which gives an account, with hitherto unpublished information, on how the war was told to us” from the censorship mechanisms implemented by the civic-military dictatorship that ruled Argentina in 1982.
“It seems to us a very interesting and quite didactic work on a period of Argentina that is not well known or at least the complete story was not known until today,” reflected the president of Télam.
“The university offered us to come and talk to the students, and we came with great pleasure, (we understand) as a way of exchanging experiences,” said Llorente, for whom the documentary released last September 8 “contributes to training” of the students of Unlam and other study centers.
“We are not trying to gloat over the past, but to honor memory, recount the past of manipulation and business around communication to rethink the future together,” Llorente deepened before an audience made up of students, authorities and residents of Unlam.
After the exhibition of the documentary, Llorente began a dialogue with the students in which concepts about the role of the media in the construction of the story of the conflict in the South Atlantic were expanded, as a reflection on the work of the public and private media during the armed conflict.
“The media of the war” brings to light images never seen before of the coverage of Argentina Televisora Color -name that the current Public Television had at that time-, cables and photos recovered from the photographic archive of Télam, newspapers, magazines and original audios.
Among the voices that appear in the documentary are those of Rafael Wollman, a photographer in the Malvinas and author of the iconic photo of the surrender of the English; Silvio Zuccheri, photographer from the Imagen Latinoamericana agency; Adrián Korol, radio amateur in the Malvinas War and director of Radiodifusión Argentina al Exterior (RAE); Sebastián Lacunza, former director of the Buenos Aires Herald; Felipe Celesia, journalist from Télam; Cora Gamarnik, researcher specializing in photojournalism; Francisco Taiana, geopolitical analyst; among others.
