The Institute of Press and Society (IPYS) ruled on the recent preliminary report presented by the High Level Group of the Organization of American States (OAS). In this regard, he expressed his “astonishment” for the content regarding the national press.
“Having been one of the institutions that met with the OAS High Level Group, on November 22, We express our surprise at the content of your report referred to the Peruvian press, rejecting terms that do not conform to the truth or correspond to the content of what we discussed”, specified in the statement.
Communiqué of the Institute of Press and Society. Photo: IPYS
One of the findings expressed by the spokesperson for the OAS mission last thursday was “the media are concentrated in a few hands and have been questioned by several of the actors interviewed for lacking objectivity, Going so far as to maintain that they are not truthful and that in some cases they are even destabilizing”.
In another part of the pronouncement, IPYS affirmed that at “no moment” of the meeting that was held with the OAS delegation moved “The detail of these questions, which come mainly from the Government and the ruling party.”
“We were present at the meeting Augusto Alvarez Rodrichpresident of the Press and Society Institute (IPYS); Maria Eugenia Mohme, president of the Peruvian Press Council (CPP); Y Gustavo Gomez, president of the National Radio and Television Society (SNRTV). We express concerns that have already been included in the Report of the Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression of the IACHR”, he pointed out.
Regarding the latter, he referred to the fact that the “solid allegations of corruption in the State” that have been “the starting point for the constitutional denunciation” of the head of the Public ministry to the president Pedro Castillo.
He also mentioned that the Government of Castle “It has launched an intense campaign of attack and harassment of Peruvian journalism by presenting it as an enemy of democracy.”
“As is verifiable, none of this has been included in the report, which includes, rather, a call to exercise constructive journalism that We do not accept from a representation that collected in such a biased way the reality of what happens with the national press ”, ended in the document.
