A cowardly sting with Ferran Torres' apartments

This is a tweet from El Español: “Ferran Torres’ success outside of football: an empire of twenty properties and more than six million euros in real estate assets”. And this is another tweet from El Español: “He neither has twenty flats nor does he manage a vulture fund. The spin from the Sumar deputy against Ferran Torres for accusing him of being a speculator”. The first message included a link to a scandalized news story that they have already deleted, while the second leads to an article in which they act dignified and dismantle the perfidious accusation to which they themselves subscribed hours before. With the small detail that in this second article they do not offer an apology or, at least, admit the error. In fact, Pedro J. Ramírez's media outlet already published the fake news for the first time on June 13, but since the player was the scorer of the goal that won the World Cup, they decided to update the text with this detail and cast the hook again with the rotten bait, fishing for clicks, to see who would swallow it.

It is not enough to delete a mistaken news story: the error must be admitted to ensure that the reader has a point of reference where the confusion is dispelled. The internet allows discreetly modifying articles and I have seen a thousand examples of media outlets that have swallowed it without saying so. What seems remarkably pioneering to me is that you create a piece accusing someone else of the spin that you yourself tried to pass off earlier. I'm sorry, but if you bought it without verifying it, it's bought and it's yours, so if you have to swallow it, you do it in public and bearing the shame, not by pointing at someone else. “Do you think it was an error or an intentional accusation?”, asked that second tweet from El Español to the digital competition, with Olympic shamelessness. I suppose the same question could be asked of them. But perhaps we intuit the answer too much.