The state's dirty secrets are a curious architectural construct: only those outside the government can see them. And while their putrid stench is often noticeable from afar, when a party has loyal media henchmen, the mechanisms for exposing the corruption are activated. It's the media that's responsible. ambipurThis Wednesday The reason The headline reads: "The sewers point to Sánchez with new audios: 'This will be cleaned up.'" Certainly, the PSOE is beginning to give off the classic, worrying smell of envelopes of cash changing hands so casually. But it's quite a coincidence that the Planeta-owned newspaper is only now discovering the existence of these subterranean caverns, as if they had just sprung up out of nowhere.
I did a Google search for the word "sewers" specifically related to Mariano Rajoy's term. Only 34 results appeared, and on the first page, when they were mentioned, most didn't refer to those of the Spanish state, even though we're talking about the glorious days of Jorge Fernández Díaz's "patriotic police," when he was a minister and collaborator of... The reason currently, Oh, vayitaIn contrast, since Sánchez came to power—during a similar period—there have already been 297 articles mentioning "sewers," and here, the majority do point to the Socialist president. There are a number of catchphrases that newspapers try to attach only to their enemies. If we like him, he's an advisor. If not, he's a plumber. And so on. The case of the "spindle" is especially painful because a media outlet is supposed to be committed to eradicating these underhanded and dubious practices, regardless of who occupies the damp underground passages. But the polarization in which we find ourselves perverts the meaning of words, and this benefits bad politics, which takes advantage of this extreme relativism to create or erase "sewers" from the public narrative as it suits them.
