The left is losing the global media battle

Unless there are any last-minute surprises – such as a Competition Authority veto – everything points to Lord Rothermere becoming the new owner ofDaily TelegraphThis most noble editor of the tabloidDaily MailHe will take the reins of a newspaper that, in recent times, has drifted towards entrenched positions against the left. There is astonishment among Labour members, who assume that the new owner will not correct this trend, but rather, on the contrary, will harden the newspaper's stance in favor of the aggressive right. This in a country where the Conservative Party is also...hardMurdoch dominates another significant portion of the audience, and it's where GB News has sprung up, a news-only channel even more extreme than thenon plusMeanwhile, the United States is also shifting to the right in the media, and in Spain, the dominance of media outlets aligned with the PP and Vox parties is so overwhelming that it's practically a legacy. One can clearly speak of a trend.

That capital aligns itself with conservative media options is to be expected. What is more surprising is that it does so with media outlets that embody these new polarized times in which rigor and timeliness are sacrificed on the altar of editorial intent. I say this because the economic program of the neo-authoritarians and their cronies is, to put it mildly, confusing. Where, then, are the progressive options? The left's inability to formulate a response to the current complexity of the Calaf communication market—which is social media—probably has much to do with this absence of new, financially powerful journalistic initiatives that aim to be a bulwark against the far-right movements that, in various guises, are gaining strength on a global scale. If this phenomenon isn't corrected—and the tech oligarchs are exacerbating it—we're heading toward a scenario with very little pluralism. Which is another form of censorship, less conspicuous, but more effective.