Pedro J. Ramírez explains in his weekly letter or harangue in El Español that a cartoon cost him a hostile call from Sánchez's team and a chop to institutional advertising. The drawing in question is a parody of Feijóo's famous photograph with the drug trafficker Marcial Dorado on board a yacht, and it features Pedro Sánchez in the place of the PP leader alongside the businessman Víctor de Aldama. I am not concerned about the institutional ad faucet being turned off. Isabel Díaz Ayuso's government compensates him amply, to this media outlet that usually flatters him on even days and massages him on odd days. But that Moncloa mobilizes for a joke, if it is true, causes at least surprise: there are more urgent matters to resolve, even without leaving the news sphere. We have private television channels with evident political interests, talk shows where pseudomedia sit, online publications that broadcast news with only a tangential relationship to reality, or programs that claim to look to the horizon, but in which the gaze is so short that it does not exceed the span of their own prejudices.
On the other hand, the newspaper Abc has dispensed with Puebla, its cartoonist with whom they had been for more than twenty years. Precisely from Iker Jiménez's program, the coincidence between his departure and a cartoon in which he said that there were strange marks on the train tracks, in the form of "mordidas", playing on the double meaning, was pointed out. Now, there is no evidence of a cause-and-effect relationship: the affected party has said nothing, although in a recent interview he did state that he found it easier to criticize the PP than the PSOE. The socialists have every right to denounce a "fatxoesfera" that disregards journalistic standards to harm them. But victimhood cannot be an excuse to, in the meantime, launch a campaign against humor.
