Interview hash with dialogue foam and content reduction

2 min
Santiago Abascal and David Broncano on 'La revuelta'
11/11/2026 - 18:09 h
Writer

The daughter, who will vote for the first time in the upcoming elections, was watching on Instagram fragments of Broncano's interview with the leader of Vox on Spanish Television. She had leaned her phone against the oil cruet on the kitchen counter, and, meanwhile, she was preparing her lunch (a lunch easy to open and boil). A youtuber was commenting, in list form, on the relevant moments of the interview (which she would not watch in its entirety) and asking for “comments.” The mother, who was also preparing lunch (vegetables), asked her what had happened in that interview. The daughter told her: “They threw a lot of hate at him, he buttered him up a lot”.

This daughter, to know if there were blocked roads yesterday, did not look at 3/24 or the minute-by-minute coverage from ARA, like her mother. She checked the Maps application. The mother, from time to time, asks her to read articles. If she sends them to her for free, she knows she won't open them. The other day she asked her—in the car—to read the editorial from ARA about Blocus and the piece by David Miró about how the train accident had changed the intention to vote. The daughter, before reading, complained about the estimated reading time: “Three minutes!”.

The daughter's way of getting informed has good things and bad things; the mother's does too. The excess of youtuber colloquialism can be confused with frankness and a spirit of justice, with a “I speak the truth,” a bit like how young people see Gabriel Rufián. The excess of education and narrative technique can be confused with hypocrisy, with being bought by a power whose identity is unknown. In any case, it is completely useless for Broncano to do a one-hour interview. The interview will be split and clipped, packaged, and they will add three cloves of garlic and a slice of bacon to it. It is the minced interview.

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