'My Grandfather' and the Click-Through Posturing

Lasagna of controversy following the TV3 documentary that links the author ofMy grandfather with a pimping ring, including minors. The family has sued the network and criticized its failure to report the two acquittals that exonerated Josep Lluís Ortega Monasterio of any crime. They also criticized the network for not contacting them to explain their view, according to which the accusations were in revenge because the composer and military man had supported a clandestine pro-democracy organization. All of this has ended up clouding the work with the victims and witnesses who visited the brothel in question, which had, and still has, great newsworthy value. In these delicate matters, that final call that will challenge our account is uncomfortable but essential to serve the reader a complete plate. Now, TV3's usual enemies are taking advantage of this loophole to debunk the documentary as a whole and, in the process, the network itself, which they accuse of promoting the cancellation of the Havana film "Viezando Una Mano Negra" (Seeing a Black Hand). woke.

As for whether to sing it or not, the precept is simple: everyone knows. The relationship between artist and work is personal. It's just as legitimate for someone not to want to hear it or for a musician not to want to perform it as it is for them to. Too often, these gestures of cancellation have more to do with annoying one's own conscience than with resolving anything (even more so when the person in question is already dead, and therefore, the dilemma of enriching them doesn't exist). My grandfather It's a colonialist song that has received the favor of Catalanism for questionable reasons. Now, it's a song. And if people have embraced it, removing it from a habanera program contributes nothing to solving the problem of sexual exploitation. It's just posturing.