2023-11-13 17:25:49
Of the corura of demonstrations, little to say, beyond the usual inflation of figures. Most newspapers talk about hundreds of thousands of people, while theAbc climbs already above the million and The reason it makes an ode to inflation with its very generous figure of more than two million people. In Barcelona, in any case, 6,500 souls, which should have contributed very little to the overall calculation. Nothing new, on this front: just noise and very subjective ways of measuring it.
I am more concerned about how the Spanish press has been navigating for years between the Scylla of epic inflammation and the Charybdis of humiliating flagellation. It’s about selling newspapers, and, well, it’s understood that hyperbole helps reach where mere exposition of facts doesn’t. But the cover ofThe world of this Monday is certainly relevant. And worrying Let’s look at the various verbs in the four main headlines on its first page, which I mark in italics: “Spain s’alça against the amnesty of Sánchez”, “Em rebel·lobecause I exist”, “Shoot by the back” and “The flagging wood Ground”. All four belong to the semantic field of war. A metaphor can be poetic license; four in a row are eager to refer to past rhetoric and tap into the civil war sentiment that, seven decades later, still divides this territory. But don’t mention the dead on the road, of course. Be that as it may, the last time the right spurred revolt against democratic results from the polls, things didn’t exactly end well (although I suppose there will be those who consider it great, with forty regime years). But The world you would do well to check if your lexical choices are not correct, impassive gesturethe sheets of old ghosts.
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