Sánchez amenaza el derecho a la información de los españoles

Espero que Sánchez fracase en su anunciada ofensiva legislativa para limitar la libertad de prensa. En primer lugar porque supondría el mayor retroceso de un derecho constitucional en casi medio siglo de democracia.

En segundo lugar porque esas medidas que hoy irían dirigidas contra unos, en otro momento y con otro gobierno se utilizarían contra otros. 

Y, por último, señor presidente, ¿cómo pretende combatir a la extrema derecha con iniciativas propias de la extrema derecha?

Episode Transcript

(00:06):
Never, even when Egin was wearingan ETA transmission belt or when the Alcázar
was inciting the coups, was therea President of the Government to unite in
the same public statement the verb toend the media. It is true that
Sanchez spoke this Sunday for the umpteenthtime against the pseudomedia, but without clarifying

(00:30):
either how he defines them or howhe narrows them down. If you refer
to little chiringuitos who, without hardlyany staff, spread lies and insults on
behalf of dark dolls, we cannottake it for granted. Spanish is the
absolute leader of the press. Wecount on more than two hundred journalists.

(00:51):
We don' t have to disqualifyanyone. We check what we publish and
our finances are very pluralally healed.But if Sanchez refers to those who have
spread news that bothers him about hiswife' s activities and there he started
all this cantinela about bulls and mud, then all the media, except the

(01:15):
most docilely governmental, are in dangerbecause in the so- called Begoña case,
the basic facts are true and theirinterpretation is open. Of course,
whether or not they are controversial,as I think they are not criminal in
nature. Sánchez has said exactly thathe intends to end the impunity of pseudomedia,

(01:42):
but there is someone with impunity beforethe law. The offences of insult
and slander in the Criminal Code arenot criminalized in Spain. Clearly, that
' s not enough for him.It has announced that it will surround those
digital tabloids that it does not likeby means of three laws in the absence

(02:05):
of one, the transposition of anEU directive that recommends transparency in the ownership
and public financing of the media andreforms of the law on the protection of
honour and the right to rectification,obviously to strengthen them. All this combined
with the application of new criteria forthe discretionary distribution of institutional advertising, much

(02:29):
more opaque in the case of theGovernment than in the case of any autonomy.
In short, it would be aquestion of drowning with fines lawsuits and
advertising boycotts of the annoying media forsánchez and favoring their corifeos without a fee.
I hope it will fail to doso, because we are facing the

(02:53):
greatest offensive against the right to informationof citizens since the beginning of the transition.
All parliamentary groups must remember that thefirst amendment to the exemplary United States
Constitution says that Congress will not beable to make any laws limiting freedom of

(03:14):
expression or of the press. Buteven if they do not share these values,
they should think out of selfishness aboutwhat would happen to their friends when
a government of a sign other thanthe current one resorted to those same mechanisms
already established by Sánchez. And finally, this goes for the President himself.

(03:37):
You can fight to the ultra rightwith ultra right measures