
A judge has granted investigative status to two former senior officials of Isabel Díaz Ayuso for their management of nursing homes during the pandemic. The cavern has reacted angrily and has deployed an interesting display of resources, the kind that should be taught in journalism schools to truly educate about the bread one gives. Around four in the afternoon, just three hours after the news broke, the headline on the website of The reason It said: "The PP points out that the judge who has charged two former senior Ayuso officials was part of Zapatero's government." In other words, the news had disappeared, swallowed up by the politically interested reaction. Ok Diary, which added that Judge Isabel Durántez had released the son of the president of the Constitutional Court, Conde Pumpido. And, to top it all off, she involved her sister, recalling that she was requesting a two-and-a-half-year prison sentence for Luis Rubiales for kissing Jenni Hermoso. These media outlets are the same ones that later publish scandalized opinion pieces about the unacceptable attacks on judges and how this affects the pillars of the state... but only when the judges are those they ideologically align with and suspected of having leak pipes the size of the Pyongyang subway. For the rest, it's free rein.
Then there are more small overhang tactics. In theAbc, for example, does have the news. But one detail catches my attention: it's one of the top fifteen articles that make their digital front page, albeit in a discreet location, and it's the only one with no signature. You have to understand that no one wants to be the big shot who stamps their name on a news story likely to generate attention, and, incidentally, the absence of a signature is a way of downplaying the issue.