News that covers other news. Photos that cover other photos. TV is like an onion: the scandalous layer that they showed us yesterday is replaced today because a new scandalous layer stars in the news.
The colossal metamorphosis of Tamames, which starting from a communist larva now flies like a Vox moth; Barça’s payments to negreira, with four presidents mired in the matter; the request for 15 years in jail for Jorge Fernandez Diaz for his notable works as a sewer mason; the statements of Laura Borras in her trial, which turns out, according to her, that the administrator is the evil one…. Layers and layers of newsworthy onion that in the great state telehippodrome they are superimposed on us, each one successively covering the previous one. Notice that many of these cases have corruption as the protagonist.
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And we, the audience, in the face of this successive avalanche, end up normalizing this overlapping of corrupt people. As the multi-award-winning Argentine journalist says Jorge Lanata: “Corruption is like air conditioning, when it is installed you hear noise, but you get used to it right away.” In the last few hours, the star news about corruption is the so-called ‘Mediator case’. Some television empire has distinguished itself from the rest by giving it with superlative intensity. This is the case of Antena 3 TV. In his ‘News 21h.’ on Tuesday they dedicated 10 minutes straight to it, almost 30% of the duration of the entire news program. Also in the ‘News 15h.’ of this Wednesday, the minutes were the same. It is useful to time the attention that networks devote to an issue. It allows the audience to know which corrupts they are interested in highlighting, and with which corrupts they become more distracted. Money, bribes, politicians, businessmen, drugs, prostitutes… “A blow to the socialist party!” they assured in these ‘News 15h,’ from A-3 TV.
Man, given the creatures that star in this case, we must admit that it is as viscous as it is seedy. In ‘El intermedio’ they enjoyed detailing the nomenclature. Mark Antony, ‘The mediator‘; the ex-deputy Tito Berni; the former general of the Civil Guard prickly; her lover Adelaide, aka ‘Flying Pussy’… Ahh! I don’t know how long the television spotlight on this onion layer will last, but until the next corruption arrives, we will be entertained.