With the renovation of the Mediaset dome, the agreement was taken advantage of to sell a supposed reinforcement of news and political content. In fact, the transfer of Ana Rosa to the afternoons was interpreted in an ideological key. But, surely, this was the anecdote in an increasingly pronounced and disturbing turn towards the exaltation of an ultra-conservative ideology.
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The most delirious culmination of this inertia is Horizontewhere Iker Jiménez, the specialist in paranormal phenomena, pseudoscience and extraterrestrials, is now dedicated to dealing with current events with misleading and disturbing resources.
A few days ago, the presenter was seen in the demonstrations against the amnesty in front of Ferraz headquarters. Jiménez claimed he was working and covering information for his Cuatro program. On Thursday, he did a special late at night to analyze the political situation. With his pretentious and smug tone, he started the program by quoting Montesquieu to remind us that the powerful tended to abuse power, underlining the danger of not separating the legislative, executive and judicial powers. “We are going to talk about the three powers and what has been broken on a historic day like today,” announced From here, a dozen men circulated through the program and the various live connections: “Jurists, legal experts and vehement”, announced
The repertoire of individuals was very disturbing. They interviewed members of associations and collectives that had demonstrated in front of the PSOE headquarters with the excuse that they had not caused riots. They all defined themselves under the label of democrats and patriots, but both by their aesthetics and their messages it was clear that television was offering a whitewashed, sweetened and disguised image of the true ideology of many of these groups.
In addition, Mediaset has become the paradise of police union spokespeople with a great desire for notoriety that the channel exhibits as if they were officially speaking on behalf of the security forces. They wear stylish jackets bomber full of strange shields with skulls and arrows. Also appear lawyers and what they call political disseminators holding slow rallies. They invited a former member of the PSOE only to show his cut-up party card on the table.
What Iker Jimenez is doing on television is a misleading strategy of what journalism is. It invites several people who belong to minority and residual formations, who defend the same ultra-right ideology. It gives them a platform to launch their speeches and messages. He invests them with authority by citing names and positions. And finally he sells it as an exercise in plurality and analysis from a democratic and pacifist perspective. You see, the man who sold the existence of extraterrestrials, flying saucers and psychophonies, so much looking at the beyond has ended up giving voice to the extreme right.
2023-11-18 21:26:53
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