Mexico's president vows to eliminate national news agency

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MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s president said Friday he will shut down Notimex, a national news agency that has been locked in a years-long strike against the woman he appointed to run it. Public television and radio stations — most of which had previously broadcast mainly cultural, scientific or education programs — quickly became politicized, giving promotional space to draw people to López Obrador’s march and broadcasting fawning coverage of it. She also has criticized “Western science” and “techno-science that makes knowledge merchandise,” while calling for ”collective processes of generating knowledge” more closely tied to social concerns

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