The depolarizer who depolarizes Ana Rosa...

Máximo Huerta visited Ana Rosa Quintana's set and told her she was one of the most polarizing figures. She immediately jumped to her defense. And, well, this broadcaster has the right to try to make people believe that her morning ritual is journalism working for social cohesion: reality already exists, and so does the discernment to expose it every day. What's worse is that, coincidentally, when the program was uploaded online, a six-minute segment was missing, coinciding with the controversial clash with former minister Huerta. It's a lack of consideration for the guest and the viewers to try to erase the past and pretend that what was shown on air didn't happen. It demonstrates a lack of democratic flexibility and a very primitive view of journalism, because she hasn't understood that the digital age has brought a host of problems and inconveniences, but also an undeniable effect: censorship by hiding something already published has become impossible. There will always be someone who captures it and makes it go much more viral precisely by selling it as forbidden. That's why, after the storm on social media, the clip was reinstated and everything was blamed on an unlikely human error (unless the error was not calculating that exactly this would happen).

In any case, this defamatory use of polarizing As an insult, I find it dangerous because it's closely related to equidistance: it predisposes one to believe that the reasonable option lies in a comfortable middle ground, which can be numbing. Just this Thursday, they were interviewing the singer Víctor Manuel on... The Newspaper And he spoke fairly and aptly: "I'm not against polarization. I want to be polarized. I want to be at odds with Abascal. Art isn't neutral; it distills ideology." Tell him, Abascal, tell him, Ana Rosa.