The top story in Mexico is about a feisty journalist who exposed the first lady’s secret mansion, an
The top story in Mexico is about a feisty journalist who exposed the first lady’s secret mansion, and lost her job
By Joshua Partlow April 8 at 4:19 PM
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Journalist Carmen Aristegui attends the presentation of a book at a hotel in Leon in this March 24, 2012, photo. One of Mexico's most prominent journalists, whose team revealed a conflict-of-interest scandal ensnaring President Enrique Pena Nieto in 2014, has been fired, her employer MVS Radio said March 15. (Tomas Bravo/Reuters)
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MEXICO CITY -- It's been nearly a month since Carmen Aristegui, Mexico's most famous journalist, was fired from her radio program after investigating the first lady's real estate, but her prominent colleagues have not stopped rallying to her cause.
On Wednesday, a group of journalists and academics argued that her firing amounted to violating the rights of the Mexican audience's access to information, and said they are starting a legal process to try to get her reinstated to her popular morning program.
Denise Dresser, a prominent Mexican columnist and professor, said that it was "unacceptable in a democracy" that a company given a government concession for news content "censors and controls the content that the audience receives."
"And that's why we ask today that the citizens who are aware of their rights be willing to fight for them and join together," Dresser said at a news conference in Mexico City.
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