If anyone still has doubts that S\u00e1nchez's government and its affiliated media live locked in a bubble, yesterday it became even clearer.<\/p>\n
This Sunday night, two national Spanish television channels broadcast special news programs<\/strong> on the cold snap catastrophe, hours after the outburst of anger by the residents of Paiporta against Pedro S\u00e1nchez<\/a>. I think that these two programs exemplify two very different ways of doing journalism in Spain<\/strong>. Let's get into the details.<\/p>\n Ana Pastor's program on La Sexta<\/big><\/p>\n On the one hand, a channel close to S\u00e1nchez's government, La Sexta, broadcast a program hosted by Ana Pastor,<\/strong> a well-known left-wing journalist. You didn't have to be a great fortune teller to imagine what it would be like. The program featured the socialist minister \u00d3scar Puente<\/a>, who took the opportunity to criticize the King's visit to Paiporta; the socialist mayor of Paiporta<\/a>, Maribel Albalat, and the socialist mayor of Aldaya<\/a>, Guillermo Luj\u00e1n. To give this a bit of variety and to make it not seem like a PSOE advertorial, they also contacted the mayor of Utiel, from the PP<\/a>. Three politicians from the PSOE and only one from the PP.<\/strong><\/p>\n This ideological \"variety\" was completed by the leftist journalist Ignacio Escolar<\/a>, director of the pro-government media Eldiario.es, the journalist Luc\u00eda M\u00e9ndez<\/a>, a great admirer of Pedro S\u00e1nchez, and journalist Pilar Velasco<\/a>, who compared yesterday's protest against S\u00e1nchez with<\/strong> the assassination attempt on Donald Trump in Butler<\/a>:<\/p>\n \"It is an attack on the president of the government. On the official car. It is an image very similar to that of Donald Trump and the gap in his head.<\/strong> This is unprecedented.\"<\/em> <\/p><\/blockquote>\n Let us remember that in that attack Trump was shot in the ear and one of his followers was murdered.<\/strong> At this rate, we will soon see journalists close to the government comparing what happened yesterday in Paiporta with 9\/11 or the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.<\/p>\n Iker Jimenez's show on Cuatro<\/big><\/p>\n Let's move on from journalism in the service of power to real journalism. Yesterday Iker Jim\u00e9nez cancelled his program \"Cuarto Milenio\" and broadcast a special program on \"Horizonte\"<\/strong>, the program broadcast by the Cuatro channel on Thursdays on current affairs. There were no politicians on the program.<\/strong> The participants in this broadcast were mostly the same as those from last Thursday's program, mostly regular participants in this program and with different ideologies.<\/p>\n In this program there was harsh criticism for the autonomous government (of the PP) and especially for the socialist government of S\u00e1nchez<\/strong>. There was also praise for King Felipe VI for his bravery while S\u00e1nchez fled like a coward from that protest. The King even received praise from a left-wing republican like Beatriz Taleg\u00f3n.<\/strong> Once again, it was a program that sought contact with the street, but above all it was an uncomfortable broadcast for the political power and specifically for the government<\/strong>, which is what any journalist who fulfills his professional duty in a situation like this should be.<\/p>\n The difference between living inside a bubble and living outside it<\/big><\/p>\n Although our leaders sometimes seem to forget it, we live in a democracy and that means there is political pluralism and informational pluralism.<\/strong> Everyone freely decides what they want to see and through which media they want to be informed.<\/p>\n For my part, I have been clear for years that I avoid getting information from those whose function in journalism seems to be to defend a government, whatever it does.<\/strong> That is precisely what La Sexta has been doing since S\u00e1nchez came to power in 2018. Of course, a true democracy implies the existence of media and journalists who are critical of political power<\/strong>, which is what Iker Jim\u00e9nez did yesterday, once again, with his program. Those who want to live in a bubble like our rulers already have La Sexta.<\/strong><\/p>\n + UPDATED 17:14h: I have praised the programmes that Iker Jim\u00e9nez has been doing from the affected area, and I think it is only fair to also comment on this video recorded by a neighbour and published today on Twitter, in which we see a contributor to the program, Rub\u00e9n Gisbert, kneeling in the mud for no reason:<\/strong><\/p>\n Lo de gisbert es de tener 0 verg\u00fcenza — raaxon (@raaxon_) November 4, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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