ABSTRACT
The media in Argentina do not have a deep tradition of self-regulation or the support of media accountability practices. Currently, no digital media, private television channel, or radio station has a code of ethics or style manual. Only one print media publication has an ombudsperson. Social organizations, the academic sphere, trade unions, indigenous and human rights organizations, as well as community media achieved democratizing communication legislation in 2009. However, the liberal right-wing government (2015–2019) modified it by decree, in favor of business concentration. Faced with the greatest media concentration in history, the recent impetus of the Defensoría del Público de Servicios de Comunicación Audiovisual (Defender of the Public of Audiovisual Communication Services) and the creation of Gender Defenders, incorporated by some media, indicates a certain possibility toward the promotion of media accountability.
