Deception and political lies are impossible without the alliance and active collaboration of the media and journalists for something that corrodes and tries to blur the demand for responsibilities, clarification and transparency on what happened but, above all, affects democracy itself by promoting the discredit of institutions.
Hoaxes and lies about DANA in Valencia: “hundreds” of bodies in Bonaire to the demolition of the marshes
Control of the media is profitable for some politicians, in fact it is the fundamental objective of those who already admit in advance that due to their mediocrity they need lies to win and stay in power. The essential result of the responsibilities of the Valencian DANA seems to demonstrate this. At the worst moment, Carlos Mazón, head of the Generalitat and ordinary of the state, was having a long lunch with a journalist. So that? It is said that it is to offer him what he could not offer according to the law because it does not depend on him. Or yes? Another problem to analyze is that of media promiscuity between politicians and journalists. Another day.
And this is the crux of what is happening to us, of what is democratically dangerous, the control of information, that is to say disinformation. This is what the best analysts of American politics say: Trump won thanks to disinformation. We already suspected it, in fact, the plutocrat and budding autocrat began to control a program, a television, certain journalists and the social network, the latter in close partnership with Elon Musk, who according to some also won the elections . In any case, seen from another angle, this remains a pretext for his voters, they voted deceived, misinformed. It is long but effective work that bears fruit, thousands of hours in front of the television receiving processed information are bad for democratic health.
Without a doubt, there are journalists who tell the truth, thanks to them we will see a little light, the responsibilities will be something else; Others, however, tell what’s in their paid imagination or in billable slogans and arguments.
Of course, it is not necessary to go abroad to observe the effects of disinformation and its radiating core against democracy, say in Madrid and its branches, where the concentration and centralization of the political message occurs . Radiality also allows for high mobilization capacity when there is a smell of blood and trash and garbage are freely available. Examples of overexposure, propagation of diffuse discomfort, habitual postures and media predation are numerous; I will only list a few, which range from the assertion that hundreds of bodies were in a garage, to the confusion of the settings, through the denial of the facts, of the presence of the State, in recounting without breaking a sweat, in an act of courteous vassalage, that the king controls the troops and military personnel deployed before the government on which he constitutionally depends or that there has been a miraculous collective conversion to the independence movement of the outraged Valencian people.
Deception and political lies are impossible without the alliance and active collaboration of the media and journalists for something that corrodes and tries to blur the demand for responsibilities, clarification and transparency on what happened but, above all, affects democracy itself by promoting the discredit of institutions. Without a doubt, there are journalists who tell the truth, thanks to them we will see a little light, the responsibilities will be something else; Others, however, tell what’s in their paid imagination or in billable slogans and arguments. The first is journalism, the second is activism and a daunting task. There is also the journalist so proud of his actions and his mission that he believes that he and his performance are the crude protagonist of others’ misfortune.
From classical Greece comes the reflection of Anaxagoras, teacher of Pericles, father of Hellenic democracy and therefore our grandfather: if you are deceived once, it is the fault of the one who deceived you; If two cheat on you, it’s your fault.
