By Maira Magro
One the eve of the country’s Day of the Journalist, celebrated Oct. 23, President José Mujica said the press is “an absolutely necessary and indispensable evil” that shouldn’t be “tinkered” with, El País reports.
During the talk, Murjica also insisted that the government should not create rules regulating the media, La Nación explains: “The problem isn’t the press, the problem is our human condition, the press is neither good nor evil, the problem is that we are men.”
Note from the editor: This story was originally published by the Knight Center’s blog Journalism in the Americas, the predecessor of LatAm Journalism Review.
