A headline ofThe World It said: "The Socialist councilor of Catarroja, investigated for events that occurred in the private sphere, resigns." Damn it, balls. The intrepid newspaper that has trampled on any sense of privacy more than once, and fifteen times, when it has suited it, is now getting cozy with a public figure, an elected official to boot. The subheading deepens the mystery: "The City Council has clarified that these events have nothing to do with its "public functions." But what events? The news doesn't say. And what exactly are its functions? It's not clarified either. Let's now compare it with this other headline fromThe Debate: "A PSOE Minister of Children's Affairs has been arrested for a case of sexual assault of a minor." In short, he's no longer under investigation here, but arrested; it's stated from the first sentence that he is arrested for an ugly matter involving a minor, and on top of that, it's detailed that his portfolio, gulp, was the Minister of Children's Affairs.
It's necessary to preserve the presumption of innocence and await the resolution of the investigations. But it's obvious that The World, for some reason, has decided to water down this issue and tiptoe around it. Since it's unusual to see these favors granted to PSOE politicians, my hypothesis is that it has to do with personal knowledge of the Valencian editorial team, which is where this news was prepared. It's true that in such cases there is a risk of penalty of newscasts If the matter falls through the courts, then it's either all Moors or all Christians. It's unacceptable that the newspaper that, under the ill-fated authorship of Javier Negre, published intimate details and photos of the teachers at the San Andrés de la Barca Institute, now backs down from the "private" matter. It begins like this and ends by justifying that if the enigmatic and unidentifiable Mr. Rajoy collected money under the table, it was within the private sphere. Specifically, for a private yacht, a private apartment, a private Rolex...
