Between official documents of the newspaper la Prensa there is its code of ethics in which it ensures that it is guided by its “respect for the highest ethical principles”, which implies that this medium must be guided by a series of obligations. Among them, the one that refers to the “permanent and inalienable search for truth” stands out.
In this sense, it is considered that “journalist’s truth is the truth of the facts”. In order to achieve the above, newspaper La Prensa undertakes another obligation, which refers to “exhaustive research and collection of as many versions as necessary to inform s support, accuracy, honesty and responsibility”.
In our opinion, the newspaper La Prensa In dealing with the problem of the social security model, he completely violated the stated principles, which can be illustrated by several examples. We found one of them statement published in that medium A few days ago, a well-known member of an entrepreneurial group that advocates the application of the so-called model of three pillars, he stated that this proposal “does not mean any privatization”. It is a false claim that, as expected, was not questioned by the person who conducted the interview on their behalf The newspaper.
The newspaper La Prensa itself in an article under the title The “Road to CSS Reforms”, published on Tuesday, September 14, 2021, clearly indicates that part of the business proposal includes “the transfer of pension administration to Siacap or similar entity”. It is known that there is a high degree of privatization in Siacap’s operations, to the extent that both the payment and registration units, and two of the three capitalization units are managed by private companies.
On September 14, 2022. and the same newspaper, in an article entitled “The concept of the pillar system falls into dialogue,” said one of the representatives Conep in the mentioned dialogue Speaking about the management of pension funds, it was confirmed that: “the management of these funds is left to the freedom of the saver. In other words, the worker decides who will manage his funds, having the freedom to choose between a public or private company”.
Likewise, in an article published in La Prensa newspaper on Wednesday, November 9, 2022 under the title “reforms fuel tensions in css directive(p. 1B) Conep’s trend towards privatization was recognized. Specifically referring to management of pension funds, the article states that “its management will be public or private, chosen by contributors from managers of their own choice”. It is known that this proposal is contained in the letter that the president of Conepa sent to the then president on November 7, 2022 CSS Board of Directors. It states in relation to the second pillar that “the management of this pillar will be public or private in competition…”.
From here, the question arises: what is the reason that the newspaper La Prensa did not question the recent affirmation of representatives of the private sector in the sense that no privatization is being attempted? One answer would be that the newspaper La Prensa completely ignores the concept of privatization. A more accurate answer is that this media believes that its campaign of disinformation suits to hide this reality for the time being, even at the cost of sacrificing its own ethics in search of the truth. It is false that this media tries to “refrain from any activism”. As Gandhi said: “Take any example of untruth and we will find that behind it is the desire to achieve a dear end.”
Source: Panama America
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