Source: Public Journal
ARIEL JEREZ, CAROLINA AND PAUL BESANA CHURCHES
Social analysts worried about the democratic order, always difficult and unfinished, we are increasingly aware, and we are increasingly concerned "about the health of our public sphere. Among the various operators that manage, the media, the vast majority of politically conservative play a more severe in the English case, where reflection on the independence of the fourth estate that illuminated the modern West was limited
by our authoritarian past, which goes beyond the Franco regime.
closures and exclusions that the media operate in the public sphere at the base of the rightward of our ideological coordinates. With its ability to monopolize agendas in the last 30 years of English democracy have been exhausted with millions of pages of information and hours devoted to terrorism and nationalism, but we enjoyed walking and misinformation to think and discuss the quality of social policies on the limits of our intercultural coexistence (both immigrants and between different national sentiments peninsular), on anti-pluralist electoral system or economic model (with which it is impossible to face the current crisis). They are social movements, real advertisers' interests and actors society organized from below, the motor that energizes its opening, as they seek to veto anti-democratic opportunist behaviors.
An interesting recent case we have again had to Rosa Díez (UPyD deputy), who returned to try to start your journey election in the Faculty of Political Science and Sociology at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Believed to have secured the show appropriate for an organization like yours opportunistic, this time, however, have given students an interesting lesson in democracy. Boo February 2008, manipulated the media, he served ten to gain a foothold in the public sphere and, obviously, to get a good election results in Madrid (appears almost as a foundational moment in his article in Wikipedia). Several teachers helped in its strategy of criminalization of protest, in press filoterroristas received qualifying as representatives of "red fascism" - and called for exemplary punishment tough on cutting potential "imitation effects." The key to their strategy: get the two-faced image of the victim of "violent" and heroin
freedom of expression.
Interestingly, the major allies of the "progressive" are Peter J. Díez F. Ramirez and Jimenez Losantos, which were Aznar articulating the neocon political project in Spain. It should be remembered that the ideological coordinates of our political culture, these men manage to be in Spain as a moderate political center managers weighted. While updated in key English, the constellation of values \u200b\u200bdisplayed by the national Catholicism, hegemonic sad for our contemporary history: a unit of Spain in danger against separatism, the crusading spirit of a supposedly Catholic majority always threatened by secularism challenges its monopoly on interpreting the meaning of English life (biological, social, cultural), the authoritarian violence the hard line against dissent, which has a tragic thread that connects inquisitorial bonfires, summary trials of the Civil War and the Franco regime and the ongoing stigmatization of dialogue as a mechanism to resolve the Basque conflict.
However, this time victimizing its opportunistic strategy was derailed by the radical student movement, which left her without her picture to view headlines, newscasts and talk shows, with a few seconds of boos and shoving among students, guard and police. Announced, however, a reverse "Concentration" English-Díez welcomed with slogans such as "Spain a great and free: President Rosa "Otegui me right, Basque is Spain," Spain again and not fifty and a "," more, more, more police, "" English yes, dialects do not "- which would
disguised as priests , civil guards to Tejero, posh ladies well and slicked.
At the same time invited to attend the event with style sunglasses Harder They Come, as a symbol of rejection of peaceful (and ironic) to the opportunistic strategy, as well as intelligent and uncomfortable questions during the conference. Students was enough to announce this UPyD backtracking and cancel the act, giving to discuss its agenda.
Obviously the problem is not freedom of expression. Our colleagues (most of them leftist past and now distance themselves from practices that used and justified in his youth) should recognize the merit of the students symbolic democratic control device rather than institutional. Many of these older teachers who "made the transition" show today democracy fail to see beyond the aggregate figures for the polls, audience studies and market surveys, forgetting that, for democracy is not merely a and cooling procedure has to take the radical critique the conflict.
This new generation of politicized students has been formed in the heat of the explosion of ICT and new forms of global protest movements were on the table political-media ten years ago in Seattle. They know better than anyone that it is necessary to prick the speculative bubble of the political spectacle.
Ariel Jerez, Carolina and Pablo Iglesias Besana are lecturers from the Faculty of Political Science and Sociology at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid
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