The internal lexicon of journalism has been enriched for some time with a very revealing term: force. As with everything related to the genius of language, we do not know who was the inventor of the word. And what is a force in journalism? Well, a title that does not accurately reflect what is said in the text below, or a text that appears to report verified facts but is in reality full of conjectures and conditionals that completely leave what is stated unresolved. , or a Pure and a harsh opinion disguised as information… In short, any material in which too much force has been exerted, hence the –force- to make it seem bigger, more relevant, or newer than it really is.
“If the news is small, put a short headline in very large type so that it attracts more attention to the page,” I once heard one of the directors of the German newspaper say. PictureEuropean tabloid champion, perhaps matched only by the British The Sun.
As it could not be otherwise – journalism and politics are such twins that we end up exchanging, copying and lending our worst practices – the force He also entered politics a long time ago and he is still there, day after day. These days, for example, we see the leaders of the PP flooding the government and Pedro Sánchez with swear words, disqualifications and wide-ranging insults for the enormous crime of having voted all the PP deputies into Congress, as well as the rest of the parliamentary groups. a law, transposition of a European standard, which grants prison advantages to certain prisoners, including some from ETA.
We are faced with a technical innovation worthy of study: force declarative to shoot the rival after his own mistake! If I made a mistake, let my opponent blame me.
“ETA is stronger than ever,” declared Isabel Díaz Ayuso, president of the Community of Madrid and a real power that is less and less hidden within the PP. The quotes are from last Tuesday, twelve years and 353 days after the terrorist group announced it was laying down its arms.
A few days ago we commented here that the PP had decided to forget the amnesty law for the political struggle this fall, to amnesty with it, to amnesty the amnesty. The term has thus lost many of its options to be proposed in December by Fundéu or by other institutions and media as word of the year.
We already have a new PP candidate for word of the year: ETA. Of the year, the decade and the rest of the century. When the leaders of the People’s Party run out of arguments, they always use them.
