No news on the television networks’ news front. Each one tells the film according to their own particular prism. As best it matches what each channel is interested in. I am naturally talking about the news of the day, the PSOE-Junts pact that puts the investiture on track. There are two points, in these pages that have signed Santos Cerdan and Turull, in which the television interpretation is divergent. Confronted even. One is the amnesty law. On ‘TN migdía’ (TV3) they told us that the law has been agreed upon, but that its scope is not yet known. On TVE’s La 1 ‘Telediario’ they said the same thing. But in ‘A3 Noticias 15h,’ under a sign that warned ‘Benefits of the amnesty law’, they placed the faces of Alay, Buch, Boye and Laura Borrasand they told us: «Puigdemont has managed to get these included as well. “Let them be shielded.”
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Let’s go to the other point. That of holding a referendum. In my opinion, the most accurate account was the chronicle that he sent from Brussels Joan Raventós (TV3). He said: “Puigdemont will propose the referendum through article 92, but it is certain that the PSOE will present a counterproposal to improve the Statute of Autonomy.” In other words, the referendum thing – at least with this name – is more green than ripe. In the ‘Telediario’ of La 1 de TVE they clarified that the referendum is only “an insistence” of the independentists. In ‘A3 Noticias’, however, they stated: «Sánchez commits in writing to negotiate it. That had never happened! In other words, comparing TV news is still a strange sport: it is disconcerting.
I have not seen on any channel that they have taken the trouble to analyze who has gained more in these pacts, ERC or Junts. Because that’s what the movie is about. The other day, Sergi Sol, unconditional devotee of ERC, warned those of ‘La SextaXplica’ that the attack of jealousy of Puigdemont It has been an anthology. That’s why he cooled the negotiations. It’s not a bad analysis. Given what ERC has achieved for Catalonia (transfer of Rodalies, forgiveness of 20% of the debt…) in Waterloo they feared that their pact, theirs, would remain before the citizens as a personal arrangement to amnesty the boss and the friends of he. Ah! Sometimes the fine analysts of the Madrid networks lack perspective. The problem in Catalonia is not Sanchez, nor the specific pacts that may be hatched with it. Real cocoa is the ERC-Junts fight. Fratricidal.