A socialist's penance on 'Espejo público'

On Wednesday, morning shows were buzzing with the new report from the Central Operational Unit (UCO) on the Santos Cerdán case. But the approach ofPublic Mirror It was very original. They incorporated an allegorical staging. Susanna Griso's program invited former Socialist deputy Diego López Garrido to comment on the report. But they weren't so much interested in what the man could explain as in how they would represent him.

Eight minutes after the program started, at 9:08 a.m., they highlighted a message on the right side of the screen announcing:PSOE reaction: Socialist Diego López Garrido is reading the UCO report detailing the bribes and expenses of Cerdán and his wife. On set."And above the sign, they added a box showing the former deputy, live, sitting at a table, reading a very thick fold of papers. They emphasized the term very clearly." socialist to make it clear what the exercise was about. For forty minutes, almost three-quarters of an hour, Public Mirror The image of that man studying his lesson remained on screen. He was the spitting image of a student punished for atoning for some of his party's guilt. Like in the regime's schools, he was the very embodiment of a child without a playground, writing a thousand times over.I'm never going to get hurt in class again.It was obvious that López Garrido wouldn't have time to read the 227 pages of the UCO report, but the television audience's interest lay not in the analysis the guest would make, but in the scene they already had: a socialist reading the account of the corruption of a minister close to him, rather than having to publicly confront the details before the audience. While the program was conducting the discussion, we saw the former deputy in a small box, head down, turning pages.It takes a good amount of time to study these pages"," the presenter remarked haughtily and seriously.Anything else to add that we haven't already discussed at the table?"," he asked. The former congressman replied:I've written down some things on this homework assignment I gave myself this morning"He said it with an ironic tone, betraying that he himself had perceived it as school homework and as if that approach had caught him somewhat by surprise."Well, as a lawyer, we needed to know your opinion."," Griso retorted defensively. "Of course, that must be it."

The interview lasted exactly five minutes and, after the commercial break, she seated him at the panel discussion table. López Garrido went to Public Mirror to participate in a kind of punishment. Forty minutes live, reading the report on his party's corruption to the audience, as if it were being rubbed in his face before being quickly dismissed. A historic piece of junk paper that confirms the creative, insidious strategies of the Antena 3 magazine program.