What are Jonathan Andic's audios useful for?

Montserrat: Spirituality, nature, culture and sport
Journalist and television critic
2 min

The exclusive of El matí of Catalunya Ràdio with the audio recordings of the call to 112 by Jonathan Andic was accompanied by the interpretation of Francisco Marco, a detective hired by the defense lawyers, who assured the radio that only an actor could feign that anguish: “No one who can premeditate a fall of that type then shows this desperation, which is openly natural. [...] It is materially impossible. No one who intends to simulate that scenario simulates it like this”. The detective tells us what we should think about what we see or hear.It is difficult to assume the public dissemination of these calls to the emergency service. On the other hand, however, television has long accustomed us to listening to recordings of this type in Carles Porta's Crims. True crime favors viewers' tolerance for these audios. While in a news report desperate recordings generate discomfort, morbid shows about real crimes serve as a moral alibi to enjoy them.On Monday at noon, the news reports echoed the most notable fragments of the call. On La 1's Telediario they described the tone of the deceased businessman's son as "desperate and sobbing", and specified that "the defense insists that the investigation tries to dehumanize Jonathan Andic because it does not take into account the trauma of the moment". In other words, the recording seeks the opposite: to humanize the accused.On Antena 3 noticias they explained, as context, that the call to emergency services had been made eight minutes after the fall, after contacting the father's wife. On Informativos Telecinco it caught attention that the news screen was filled with the Mango logo as an easy reference for the audience. They clarified that that recording was one of the main pieces of evidence the defense would use. But the most insidious thing was the way they illustrated the audio recordings. When the lament of “my father has fallen” was heard, they used images of Isak Andic's stumble months before he died. In the same way, when the recording was heard of Jonathan providing the location, they included a family photo in which father and son appeared smiling, taking a quiet summer stroll years before the founder of Mango fell down the ravine. At Telecinco, they also emphasized the expression Jonathan used to call his father: “Old mannnn!” In the Telenotícies migdia of TV3, beyond the context data, they clarified that “it is another chapter of the case in the media battle for the narrative that is being played out” and that the leaked fragments did not reflect Andic's contradictions. Journalistically, it is key to specify this. The audios cause an impact, but they contribute nothing beyond public speculation. It is a case that is being served to us in installments, and we must keep in mind the role the media play and the extent to which they are allowing themselves to be used by interested parties.

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