Painful symmetry in a cockfight

Chema Garrido, director of El Plural, wrote this message on X which I think very clearly illustrates the lustful relationship between politics and the media in Madrid: “The deputy director of El Español, Jorge Calabrés, defames me on Horizonte. They will never understand that I did not agree to change the editorial line of El Plural. That I rejected proposals to make another The Objective. They can't stand that I said no to their sewers. But I am not for sale”. Indeed, Iker Jiménez's program has become a kind of coven where almost everything to the left of Vox is demonized. And there, Jorge Calabrés explained that Garrido was one of the 61 journalists on the list that has delighted the fatxosfera these days and who are, presumably, the scribes that Jacobo Teijelo used to do favors for the PSOE plumber, Leire Díaz. The UCO report, as he stated, describes the director of El Plural as “impressionable”. He, on the other hand, denies ever having spoken with Teijelo. Believe whoever you want, you will do well to read today's Pareu with a pinch of salt.

What touches me about the case is that Calabrés may not be the most suitable person to go around denouncing the excessive affinities between journalists and politicians, considering that he was the campaign manager for UPyD in Segovia. But what amazes me even more is that, on the other side of the ring, Garrido cannot be too scrupulous either, given that he was the organization secretary of the PSOE in San Sebastián de los Reyes. Extreme polarization causes this inability to see oneself on the same children's seesaw, now I go up, now you go up, now we throw each other a load of rubbish. The two of them too closely resemble that internet meme of the two Spider-Men, in identical suits, pointing at each other, surprised by the existence of the other.