Considering the events that occurred on October 29 in the press room of the Congress of Deputies, at the end of the press conference of the socialist spokesperson, Patxi López, and the subsequent campaign of accusations and harassment initiated by several people in possession of the accreditation of a journalist from the Lower House working for EDATV against the journalists Patricia Romero (ABC) and Daniel Ríos (20 Minutos), the Federation of Journalists Associations of Spain (FAPE) announced this Tuesday that they agreed to grant the protection they themselves requested.
FAPE indicated in a press release that it “specifically condemns the attitude of those who do not respect the work of information professionals, while condemning the insults and slander uttered against the journalists of ABC and 20 Minutos on social networks and rejects harassment” including. they are victims. The behavior of EDATV employees, the letter continues, “systematically violates the code of ethics of the profession” and “does not comply with the principle of truthfulness protected by article 20 of the Spanish Constitution. Also remember that Some of its members have an open case for the offense of defamation and slander» as FAPE has already “several times” condemned it.
The management of the Federation recalls that the aforementioned press conference “was thwarted by the intervention of one of these people without having respected the order and uttered a statement full of disqualification against the speaker and the journalists present”, who , in addition, “they recorded the intervention with a cell phone without authorization, thus violating newsroom rules“. The harassment continued, he explains, “through social networks with messages filled with insults, threats and slander”.
For this reason, and “before actions that seek to discredit and incite hatred and violence», FAPE “expressly asks the authorities of the Congress of Deputies to review the rules of internal conduct so that the press accreditations of people who do not respect the rules of respect and coexistence and thus harm the journalistic profession.
Journalism – insists FAPE in the same declaration – “consists of honestly guaranteeing the right of the citizen to receive truthful information, and not provoke confrontations between professionals and prevent the exercise of colleagues with intimidating actions.
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