lawmaker calls for changes amplify the voices, Media Observatory PURPOSE OF INSTITUTIONALIZED VIOLENCE
Ernesto Villanueva, Ernesto Villanueva, founder of the Center for Legal Research UDLAP, Armando Prida Huerta, president of the Czech Montúfar FUNDALEX and Fernando, director general of the International Communication Studies for Latin America. 
* López Veneroni stressed that to start changing this society people should be part of the media they consume, because today "the audience does not care or want to defend it because you do not know what you're entitled to it
Mexico City, May 12, 2011
media observatories are not intended to limit or restrict the freedom of expression, but rather strengthen it, because it favors the right to receive information, participants stressed in the International Observatory on Media and Audiences Defenders in Latin America, who pointed out that their institutionalization rather than restrict, amplifies the voices.
Held at the Puebla campus of the University of the Americas, this international meeting was attended among others, Fernando Checa, director of the International Communication Studies for Latin America (CIESPAL) , who stressed that the promotion of observatories or oversight committees, such as citizen actions are substantial as they tend to build citizenship.
In his case, he said, the project builds CIESPAL Citizenship Communicative whose essence can see, hear and read multiple voices and images, diverse and pluralistic media, above all, an opportunity to be heard, seen and read as widely and massively as possible. "This is not to give voice to that supposedly do not, because we all have voice, but amplified, crowded," he said.
Armando Prida Huerta, president of the Foundation for Free Expression (FUNDALEX) stressed that a balance must be sought between business interest and social responsibility, however, "today Mexico has won the economic interest, through the political interests at the expense of social responsibility with the public media."
For this reason, he said, is pressing a broad network of observatories media and supporters of the hearings so that the information transmitted and consumed more democratic and allow citizens take a broader view of what happens in the country.
Ernesto Villanueva explained that in Latin America, unlike Europe there is not censorship, so "we have a double responsibility to those who exercise sporadically freedom of expression" and therefore stressed the importance of media observatories, which, he said, " not have great visibility in the media because the media there is an understanding and tolerance of the role that media have observatories. "
A media watchdog, he said, you're looking to exercise freedom of speech critical of the purpose of improving one which is linked to freedom of expression, which is the right to information and that it is properly supported.
"The observatories they are seeking, through the exercise of freedom of expression, enhance the right to truthful information society are not intended to limit or restrict freedom of expression, but rather strengthen it, "he said.
"It favors the right to receive information and that right is a basic ingredient for making decisions in everyday life, hence the great role of observatories media and especially in countries like Mexico where we have a media culture. "
Czech also stressed that "exercising the media criticism is a real tribute to freedom of expression, as this should be considered in its double dimension: as the right of everyone (not just the private media) and duty to provide quality information and ethics: plural, balanced, verified, contextualised, without prior censorship, but with further responsibility.
is a civil right, he said, make sure it is giving information about these features and, if not, demand it sustainably.
The Ombudsman hearings
The mediator in the Mexican Radio Institute (IMER), Felipe Lopez Veneroni was emphatic in explaining that Mexico is in training to understand politics as public land, contrary to how he now sees as a preserve of politicians.
For this reason, said the defenders of the audience, the reader and media observatories have a dual task: "to be receiving complaints and questions legitimately founded, but, above all, a didactic and educational work which could be discussed ethics, social responsibility and freedom of expression. "
important thing to start changing this society, he said, is that "people are a participant in the media it consumes." Contrary to this, today "the audience does not care or want to defend it because they do not know what is right."
Such is the challenge, he said, so in the IMER and the proposal to create a space where people explain how to carry out production and from there begin to really take an interest in programs that are presented, analyze and demand better media.
In this context, López Veneroni Education project highlighted by the experience that promotes Armando Prida Huerta, which will be launched in August in the state of Puebla and in 2012 around the country, a project that seeks to recover the principles and values \u200b\u200blost by the Mexican company from the public policies of past governments who went missing on civics textbooks.
The International Observatory on Media and Advocates Latin America Hearings continue tomorrow at the Puebla campus of the University of the Americas.
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