Laura Di Marco and Viviana Canosa.
If in the daily interaction with another the tacit agreement is that not anything can be said, the responsibility for the communicators, whose message by its essence is destined to be amplified, should be much greater.
And when someone crosses the line that divides what is acceptable from what is unacceptable, it is necessary to review the limits so that anything goes regardless of proper names is not naturalized: it is the concept of the human what is at stake.
For this reason, a heterogeneous group of communicators with different training, origins and world views came out to question the fact that in Viviana Canosa’s program on La Nación+, she and the journalist Laura Di Marco have decided to interfere with the health of Florencia, the daughter of Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, to the point of assuring -without any supporting evidence or medical license- that the young woman suffers from “galloping anorexia nervosa” whose origin would be her relationship with the two-time former president.
In this regard, journalist María O’Donnell used his Twitter account to establish a very clear position on what happened: “You don’t mess with your health”.
What if we stop acting irresponsibly and hurting people “in the name of journalism”? You don’t mess with health (you shouldn’t mess around). It’s too harmful a circus.
— Maria O’ Donnell (@odonnellmaria) April 8, 2023
“I think that journalists deserve a debate regarding the treatment of many issues without this being a restriction on freedom of the press. I invite you to have this debate, we have had it in cases of kidnappings, in police acts when photos of the victim are disseminated and the identity is violated. It would be healthy and productive for us to take out proper names, to jump over the crack and call us to talk about certain topics to be careful,” the journalist told Télam in turn Analia Argento.
Second request: stop the hate on the networks and stop it in real life.
— Analia Argento (@analiaargento) April 8, 2023
Cynthia GarciaFor his part, he considered that what happened far exceeded the two LN+ journalists who spoke about Florencia Kirchner.
“It seems to me that it is one more hate speech. Beyond the reproach of journalists, there is a systematic construction of hate speech. They are generating a communication model that builds hate. What we have to warn is that we cannot be part of a communication model with these characteristics. This goes beyond any differential approach. It is something else, the democratic rod runs and it is very dangerous”.
The @lanacionmas channel, its owners the Saguier @vivicanosaok @_LauraDiMarco, produced an act (one more) of hate speech against @CFKArgentina and her daughter, Florencia.
This media model does not give more. Let’s stop hate speech. Let the community of journalists react https://t.co/zFbMilKQX7— Cynthia García (@cyngarciaradio) April 7, 2023
The lawyer and communicator Natalia Volosin defined the event with two adjectives: irresponsibility and cruelty.
“It seems irresponsible to me that a person without a medical license makes statements about a disease that affects a lot of young people and there is no basis for linking that disease with the lack of a mother. What they said is false in medical terms. And it seems cruel to me because it is a very difficult disease, “he told Télam Volosin.
“Anorexia is lack of mother, so you say who is Cristina?”. Absolute cruelty and irresponsibility.
— Natalia Volosin (@nataliavolosin) April 8, 2023
The internist Mariana Lestellewho has been consulted on television and other media for many years to report on different health issues, felt the need to go out and explain that anorexia nervosa and the relationship with the mother are not linked in such an obtuse way as was suggested in Canosa’s program and opened a thread on Twitter to explain what he knows about the subject.
I just saw a video of a “journalistic” program talking about anorexia nervosa
1- beyond the fact that you don’t like the mother, saying that she is responsible for anorexia in a child is at least unethical. I open thread about #anorexia— Mariana Lestelle (@MarianaLestelle) April 8, 2023
“I gave a medical opinion. It doesn’t matter who you’re talking about, there is no political bias in my medical view. Many of the viewers must suffer from this pathology and saying that the mother is the cause is as serious as saying that if a boy is addicted, it is the mother’s fault. It’s so bizarre. When you talk about a health issue you have to have knowledge, I’m talking about a serious topic. Argentina is after Japan in the ranking of countries with the greatest food problems and it is a polycausal disorder“, he commented to Télam.
The journalist Daniela Ballester defined the episode as “shameful television”.
Once again @_lauradimarco says, “I don’t want to get into such a delicate topic” but he gets involved.
Shame television.— DanielaBallester (@BallesterDani) April 8, 2023
“It seems to me that this discussion is not about the crack. When Esteban Bullrich became ill, Cristina was the first to call him and journalism did not do the same. There is only one side of the rift that attacks with this. There are journalists who have a limit and others who do not. Making medical diagnoses about something that is not known is not appropriate. It did not seem to me that it was the talk of two professional journalists. They are two people who are dedicated to this,” Ballester told this agency.
Romina Manguel, Meanwhile, he published a very clear criticism of what happened on his Twitter account. “To give diagnoses in the media, which health professional did not have to have a license plate and display it? Or is it worth sitting down and saying bullshit that in addition to being unfounded and delusional mislead about sensitive topics?
Curiously -or not-, the outburst of the Canosa-Di Marco duo does not appear on the home page of the newspaper La Nación. To confession of parties….
