The desire to attract visits leads many media outlets to succumb to sensationalism and sometimes also to a lack of journalistic ethics.<\/p>\n
Sometimes these bad journalistic practices affect our Armed Forces<\/strong>, contributing to confusion and sowing discredit about them in public opinion. Lately, these headlines have appeared in various media outlets:<\/strong><\/p>\n These headlines suggest that compulsory military service has been reinstated in Spain<\/strong>, since that is what is known in our country by expressions such as \"mili\" and \"military service\", especially if those born in 2007 and 2008 are considered subjects.<\/p>\n These news articles include texts that refute those headlines<\/strong>, indicating that it is an offer of places for volunteer reservists<\/a>, and not a call to mandatory service for Spaniards of certain ages. Therefore, it is false that \"mili\" or military service is returning for those born in a specific year<\/strong>. Of course, these media outlets do not include this clarification on their social media, nor in search engines or news aggregators like Google Discover.<\/p>\n What these media outlets are doing is a practice known as \"clickbait,\"<\/strong> which usually consists of headlines that entice readers to click on the link to access the news story, using various tricks. It's a way to get visits using various tricks and, in this case, with a hoax.<\/strong><\/p>\n It should be remembered that compulsory military service was abolished in Spain in 1999<\/strong>, by means of Law 17\/1999, of May 18, on the Regime of the Personnel of the Armed Forces<\/a>, whose Article 170 established the figure of the voluntary reservist, indicating that any Spaniard could opt for \"the places of voluntary reservist that are called for Officers, Non-commissioned Officers and troops and sailors, provided that they accredit the educational levels that are determined by regulation for each category and, where appropriate, specialty\"<\/em>. The first call for applications for volunteer reservists was published in December 2003<\/a>, and since then other offers have been published periodically.<\/p>\n ---<\/p>\n Photo: Ministerio de Defensa.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The desire to attract visits leads many media outlets to succumb to sensationalism and sometimes also to a lack of journalistic ethics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[19630,15961,10720,11550],"tags":[27666,9599,5406,27667,17198,1485,11882],"class_list":["post-66733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1a-plana-defense-eng","category-bloque-6-english","category-communication","category-defense","tag-diario-de-avisos","tag-el-espanol","tag-el-huffington-post","tag-granada-hoy","tag-hoaxes","tag-la-razon","tag-ok-diario"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-23 21:40:33","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66733\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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