PressTV
August 5, 2012
Spaniards protesting against government's austerity measures (file photo)
A number of Spanish journalists have accused the government of sacking them from national radio and television for criticizing the government’s austerity policy.
The journalists said that they were purged from the national RTVE radio and TV channel for questioning Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy’s harsh austerity measures, which have led to massive rallies and strikes by workers from various sectors, The Guardian reported on Sunday.
Rajoy’s rightwing Partido Popular (PP) party, which has already been blamed for being behind the departures of some high-profile journalists from the country’s leading state broadcasting organizations, came under fire again after one of Spain’s best-known journalists claimed she was fired from her job.
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