The current president of Argentina, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, has long had a tumultuous relationship with the media in the country. According to the New York Times, Kirchner has been at war with the country's largest media conglomerate, the Clarín Group, since 2008. It seems that she chooses to fight with the media because, "With no credible opposition to speak of, the press makes for a convenient enemy."
Kirchner's government has fought against the Clarín Group in many ways. Not only has the government pushed through legislation to reduce the size of the so-called monopoly, they have also attacked the company for years of tax evasion - simply to have a reason to fight.
But, according to the New York Times, it seems like the government has far more of a monopoly on the media and the public's access to information than the Clarín Group ever will: "Television and radio stations are often required to broadcast Kirchner’s speeches nationally. There’s no law guaranteeing the right to access public information. And thanks to generous and discretional advertising by the government, there are now far more outlets than not that are sympathetic to its point of view."
Argentina is a country where the president has little opposition and so she attacks the media as a way of having someone to fight against. Photographs of Kirchner holding up the newspaper are a regular occurrence because she regularly criticizes the paper. According to the Clarín Group, the president has even redacted a speech in which she called the media the "chain of fear and discouragement". It seems she would prefer a media which always wrote in her favor - but if they did, what would she fight against?