A list that shows what the Spanish left-wing considers real journalism

One of the differences between a democracy and a dictatorship lies in the relationship between journalism and political power.

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In a democracy, journalism has the function of monitoring political power. In a dictatorship it is the political power that monitors journalism. Of course, in the second case this surveillance is not only carried out by government officials: there are always informers willing to point the finger at disaffection with power.

A few days ago, Eldiario.es, one of the best-known pro-government media in Spain, published a report with its accounts in 2023, a report signed by its director, the ultra-leftist Ignacio Escolar. The report states that this media outlet received 548,369 euros from the government in 2023, in addition to another 917,881 euros from city councils, councils, regional governments, regional or local public companies and European Union organizations. In total there are 1,466,240 euros in institutional advertising.

After that, on June 27 Ignacio Escolar appeared in Congress to defend the regulation of the media that the Sánchez government intends to implement, a regulation whose supposed The need for the socialist government has arisen coincidentally at the same time as the socialist corruption scandals uncovered by some media. Some corruption scandals in the face of which the pro-government media act as the government's bodyguards. For example, in the case that affects the wife of Pedro Sánchez, what Escolar did was criticize the judge.

Media like Escolar's is what the left is trying to sell us as serious and real journalism compared to what Pedro Sánchez qualifies as "pseudomedia", which are basically all those that the government does not like. To give you an idea, this is what that medium has been publishing in the last ten years:

• April 2014: Eldiario .es published a news item questioning the existence of the Galician Resistance terrorist group, which had already planted 33 bombs. 13 days later the Supreme Court confirmed that Resistencia Galega was a terrorist organization. Eldiario.es did not publish any news about this sentence, which destroyed the hoax published by that medium a few days before.
• June 2015: Eldiario.es blatantly lied about a judicial decision regarding the ownership of the Córdoba Cathedral, which the ultra-leftist newspaper described as a "mosque" despite being a temple Catholic for almost 800 years.
• September 2017: Eldiario.es criticized a company that fired an employee for publicly wishing that Inés Arrimadas, then a Ciudadanos deputy, would be raped.
• May 2018: Eldiario.es invented a "strike of fallen masses", a fake news story signed by Jesús Bastante, a guy who for a year Before, he had already launched several hoaxes about the Catholic Church from the Religión Digital website.
• May 2018: Eldiario.es attacked the person who reported rapper Valtonyc for threatening to kill him, through a news story that hid the threats made by the rapper.
• August 2018: Eldiario.es censored an article by Jorge Verstrynge for criticizing illegal immigration. According to the author of the censored article, the explanation they gave him is that the readers of Eldiario.es "would not tolerate" something like that.
• October 2018: Eldiario.es called José Calvo Sotelo a "Francoist", a right-wing deputy murdered by members of the PSOE before the Spanish Civil War (and before, therefore, the Franco dictatorship began).
• September 2019: Eldiario.es publishes, fictionalized, an alleged homophobic attack in Madrid that turns out to be false. The libel, later deleted, expressly mentioned an opposition party, Vox, linking it to the false aggression.
• November 2019: Eldiario.es reported on the sentence of the ERE case without citing the PSOE, despite the fact that several former senior officials of that party were convicted for that corruption scandal.
• November 27, 2019: Eldiario.es accused a Vox deputy of placing "the symbols of the swastika and the hammer and sickle in the plenary session of the Valencian Parliament". That far-left media forgot to indicate in the headline that those symbols were crossed out.
• January 31, 2020: Eldiario.es titled a piece of news like this: "Four recommended resources to inform yourself (and not be alarmed) about the coronavirus epidemic". One day before, the WHO had declared an international alert regarding the spread of the coronavirus.
• February 26, 2020: Eldiario.es published an article by Javier Gallego downplaying the importance of that pandemic: "I can't stop seeing in this crisis the same symptoms that have led to the return of fascism. The terrifying thing is not the coronavirus but how easy it is to is to lead the population to panicand from there to xenophobia and from there to the extreme right."
• March 2, 2020: Eldiario.es rejected "the alarmism about the coronavirus", a few days after a feminist mobilization in response to which the Sánchez government postponed any response to the pandemic.
• July 2020: The Supreme Court condemns Ignacio Escolar and Eldiario.es for publishing false news about former minister José Ignacio Wert and his wife. That media outlet had falsely claimed that both had vacationed for free in Punta Cana.
• October 2021: Eldiario.es publishes a fake news item attributing the concept of Hispanidad to Francoism. The earliest known use of that word dates back to the year 1531 and the Dictionary of the Royal Spanish Academy collected it for the first time in 1803.
• January 24, 2022: Eldiario.es falsely accused the Catholic Church of registering 965 assets in its name that did not belong to it. In reality, the one that had improperly attributed these assets to the Church was the government, and in reality the Church indicated that they were not its own, as pointed out by the Spanish Episcopal Conference.
• September 2022: Eldiario.es manipulates some words from Minister Irene Montero to try to extinguish the scandal caused by a statement of hers in which she stated that children "have the right to know that they can love or have sexual relations with whoever they want."
• March 2023: Eldiario.es publishes a news item with this title: "Becoming poor by hook or by crook, the recipe to save the planet". The text defends the disappearance of capitalism and Marxist recipes as fanatical and extremist as those of the Khmer Rouge of Cambodia.
• April 2023: Eldiario.es publishes a false news item stating that using the place name Sangenjo in unofficial texts is "against Galician law", a law that only affects place names used in official texts.
• October 2023, the Provincial Court of Madrid condemns Eldiario.es to pay 30,000 euros to Aleix Sanmartín, former advisor of the PP, for publishing falsehoods about him during the general election campaign on November 10, 2019.
• November 2023: Eldiario.es described Javier Milei as "ultra-rightist" after his victory in the Argentine presidential elections, despite the fact that Milei is a libertarian, a political position that has nothing to do with the extreme right.
• January 2024: The Supreme Court condemned Eldiario.es for publish a fake news about the Franco family and the Pazo de Meirás.

Is this the journalism model that the Sánchez government wants us to follow? What the government is telling us is that the "pseudomedia" are the Spanish media that do not do these things? I excuse adding another list with examples of biased news and omitted information because they were annoying for the left, since the list would be very long and no one pays me to write. I remind you that this blog, unlike Eldiario.es, does not receive a single cent in public subsidies. I support it with my money.

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