It was at the end of Felipism when an eminent journalist coined the expression “crime syndicate”, in reference to a group of journalists who published cases of corruption that affected the Socialist Party. There were no expressions like fake news or pseudomedia, but more or less similar words were used to denigrate the work of certain newspapers.
This is all relevant because last week PSPV and Commitments They asked the mayor of Valencia information on aid and advertising to digital media since the PP took the reins of the City Council. Nothing to object so far, the opposition is there for that, to supervise the spending that the Executive makes of taxpayers’ money. What is reprehensible is that data is only requested about some digital headers.which are marked as bad press.
Listening to certain politicians pontificate about journalistic ethics and deontological codes is worrying. Of course, the press has sometimes not contributed to calming the waters, but Making her responsible for the political climate that this country is experiencing is going too far..
At the dawn of Spanish parliamentarism, in Cádiz during the War of Independence, it was said that lThe qualification of the writings was not the object of the Government’s interest because, as the deputy José Miguel Guridi y Alcocer recalled, “one of the purposes of the freedom of the press is the amendment of the defects of the rulers, whose resentment in the printed matter directed to this object almost precisely inclines them to arbitrarily qualify them “.
PSPV and Compromís may be concerned about the tone of certain headlines, the same thing happened in Cádiz de las Cortes, when deputy Álvaro Flórez de Estrada stated: “The only objections that I contemplate that can be made against the freedom of the press are the propagation of bad doctrines and the fear of slander.” But the courts are there to combat them, not the blacklists.
