You don't need a poll to want Carlos Mazón out.

Man against God. Man against machine. And, in Medialandia, man against the poll. The Country Several thousand euros are spent for a poll to legitimize what everyone knows: that it's a disgrace that Carlos Mazón continues to preside over the Generalitat instead of remaining hidden under a rock, praying that no one discovers him or misses him. "71 percent of Valencians want Mazón to resign because of the Dana," reads the main headline on the front page of the newspaper. And, in case anyone was tempted to think this was because the perfidious left has a grudge against him, they finished with the subheading: "56.6% of PP voters and 69% of Vox voters ask for him to leave." The irony of conducting a poll ad hominem like this is that the PP knows very well that its own baron Valencian is not the most popular man at the moment, but he is The Country puts him in the spotlight so openly, now he's obliged to keep it if he doesn't want to concede a victory to the rival faction. I'm convinced that, when Esperanza Aguirre became a Riot minister, she kept her position precisely because of the clamor her boss was demanding. In politics, it's better not to give any pleasure. In Mazón's case, if one is suspicious—and likes game theory—one might come to think that the Prisa newspaper is actually seeking that protective effect and that the PP will then suffer the political wear and tear of continuing to drag that sinister character along. Paradoxes of political journalism (which doesn't mean journalism about politics).

Or perhaps the only way journalism can hold someone accountable is to parade them on the front page, even if it's through a survey designed with a hint of malice to express what everyone knows, from Cape Gata to Cape Finisterre, passing by the El Ventorro restaurant: that his management...