Iker Jiménez's devastating response to the attack by pro-government media

Over the past few days, many media outlets have reported news about the cold drop catastrophe that ultimately turned out to be untrue.

The shameful situation shown by Iker Jiménez from the ground zero of the cold drop
Ana Pastor vs Iker Jiménez: the big difference between two programs about the catastrophe

These news stories arose from a traditional problem in journalism: giving credit to sources that ultimately did not deserve it. Of all the media and journalists who disseminated information that was not true, only one has apologized: Iker Jiménez, presenter of the programs "Horizonte" and "Cuarto Milenio" on the Cuatro channel.

Last week he began his program "Horizonte" by asking for forgiveness and reflecting on the mistakes he made, a statement that is very rarely seen in the world of journalism. Obviously, making mistakes is a human thing, and it takes courage to recognize them and ask for forgiveness, as Iker did on that program.

CCuriously, after that statement, the main media outlets close to Pedro Sánchez's government (La Sexta, El País, Cadena Ser, Público, Eldiario.es and El Plural) have launched a smear campaign against Iker Jiménez, even focusing on his advertisers to leave him without resources. ING Direct bank has made the mistake of giving in to this campaign and is currently receiving a massive response from customers unsubscribing from it and criticizing the bank on Twitter.

The real motive for this coordinated attack against Iker Jiménez is not difficult to guess. Two weeks ago, Iker Jiménez made an excellent program from Paiporta showing the situation of abandonment in which the residents of that Valencian town found themselves two days after the cold drop. The government had not yet announced its large deployment of the Armed Forces and Sánchez received a lot of criticism. The same thing happened the following week, when La Sexta tried to counter-program Iker Jiménez with a program by Ana Pastor about the catastrophe in which most of the guests were socialist politicians or people close to the government.

Yesterday, in response to the campaign against him, Iker Jiménez published a devastating video showing the chronology of the news that appeared about the parking lot of the Bonaire Shopping Center, in Aldaya (Valencia), where many media outlets indicated that there could be many people trapped underwater. The video shows how many media outlets spread that information, but only Iker apologized. Others, instead of apologizing, have modified the news they published at the time, but without acknowledging their mistake (the video is in Spanish, you can activate automatic English subtitles in the bottom bar of the player):

At this point, the video has already 3.7 million views on Twitter and more than 188,000 on YouTube. This video has exposed some media outlets that still haven't apologized for publishing the false information they did, but still have the nerve to give lessons in good journalism. What this matter has made clear is that there are media outlets that do not act like journalistic companies, but rather like simple thugs at the service of the government, something disgusting in any country, but especially in a democratic country.