The 'Abc' clings to Aliança Catalana

Look at what happens for a conservative medium, but Abc served these days an intense session of twerking with Catalan Alliance. It interviewed its candidate for Barcelona, Jordi Aragonès, and he extracted the headline “We must not confront Catalans and Spaniards, the common enemy is the caliphate”. Well, more than he extracted it, he pulled it out, because this phrase does not appear in the interview but is made up of two pieces corresponding to two different questions. The idea of Islamism as a factor of brotherhood between the two parties does not appear explicitly in the conversation. And, in fact, the interviewee has retweeted a fragment of his answer on social media to show that the headline did not match the idea expressed in the answer. The introduction to the interview also draws attention, where it says: “This young professor – from a subsidized school – is also the ideologue of the formation led by Sílvia Orriols, framed in radical secessionism and xenophobia, a qualification that Aragonès does not like, but does not refute”. This ability to see the xenophobia of Catalan Alliance but not that of Vox is moving.

In any case, the newspaper's game of seduction with its dance is interesting: now I embrace you and make you a brother of the other ultra party to facilitate a possible understanding to get rid of the evil Sánchez, now I separate from you and call you “radical independentist”, lest it be. (By the way, searching for “moderate independentist” on Abc gives only one result on the internet... about Greenland.) All this lambada cannot hide the harsh reality: Catalan Alliance is seen as an instrument to support the interests of the medium. And vice versa: Sílvia Orriols's people must surely believe that they can gain electoral credit among Islamophobic voters who read Abc if they agree to be interviewed by a medium that should be hostile to them. Be careful that in four days Pablo Motos doesn't surprise us with quién ha venido hoy a divertirsea El hormiguero.