Far-right agitators in the sheep's clothing of journalists

The measure is uncomfortable, unpopular. The PSOE government is promoting that Congress be provided with a regulation to avoid the daily show that far-right agitators put on at press conferences: chases in the corridors, provocations by having them recorded on video, interventions that are not questions but editorials that nobody has asked for... Characters like Vitentivas that allow them the privilege of being able to question the representatives of the people to put on their show often tinged with an inadmissible bullying. And yet, regulating this can be a good cider. Because when journalism abuses democracy it is regrettable, and the far right gives examples of it daily. But when it is politics that abuses journalism then the result is directly catastrophic.

Hopefully they will succeed, as the result should be a fairer game and better information for the citizen, without the interference of trench-dwelling batussers who base their chronicles on the systematic distortion of the voices of others with video editing and embarrassing montages. And it should also result in a dignification of (good) journalism. But we will have to tread very finely to avoid arbitrariness. And the line that separates an uncomfortable question from an impertinence or insult can sometimes be thin, especially in this era of hypertrophy of offense. This dilemma, by the way, illuminates the shortcomings of press associations, which in the name of a misunderstanding of the defense of journalism end up taking a backseat and, therefore, legitimizing this adulteration of the profession by undesirables. They should be braver and get involved in the elaboration of the regulations, precisely to protect themselves.