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Ana Rosa Quintana vs Pablo Motos , is the poster of the combat that perfectly describes one of the things that the coronavirus is causing in the media: to see who says the biggest barrabasada or to see who gets more talk about it either good or bad. Since the health crisis unleashed, there has been practically not a single day in which some of them, and someone else who sneaks into combat, have not become the target of criticism from viewers. Twitter ignites and the networks burn against them, but above all, beyond Twitter it is surprising that you can get to where you are going.

I do not know if it is that the north has already been lost, the direction or that the coronavirus clouds thought, but for whatever reason both presenters have become either the scourge of the Pedró Sánchez Government and its management, or, in champions of controversies as easy to avoid as stopping to breathe, think and then speak. I understand that the situation that is being lived is worthy of a lot of criticism, but of rational criticism, criticism with a base, criticism that does not fall into the 'I warm up and say the first thing that comes to my mind' . They are communicators, they are presenters of two of the programs with the highest ratings, and both are on the tightrope everyday. Sometimes for no reason, but sometimes ...

The information about the coronavirus has opened a very dangerous door, the door that anyone who wants to can be an epidemiologist, president of the government, minister of health, scientist or expert. It seems that we all knew what was going to happen and that we all know what was going to happen. Lawful? Totally. Freedom of expression protects us . Dangerous? Also and, above all, depending on who says it. We are at a time when we have to know what is said, when we have to be aware of where our limits are. Not everyone who is a communicator knows what they are communicating. That a communicator like Ana Rosa Quintana generates a new controversy practically every day for her statements about the coronavirus is the least surprising, although at this point nothing should surprise us.

And I say Ana Rosa Quintana , but she also talked about Pablo Motos . He was the first to be accused of being an alarmist in that interview with José Ramón de la Morena in which he showed a more than apocalyptic situation due to the coronavirus that, as the days have passed, has been fulfilled.

However, from that Pablo Motos that made visible what nobody wanted to see, not even from the Government, to Pablo Motos of now many weeks have passed. Weeks in which in many moments the thing has ended up getting out of hand. Weeks in which the government has been reproached for unfounded criticism, weeks in which the service information or opinion has simply evolved into a anything goes, which means that there is not a day when any of both, or even both, go from being the one who gives the news to being the same news.

Ana Rosa Quinta, coronavirus and HIV

That yesterday Ana Rosa Quintana compared the coronavirus with HIV without practically disheveled is an example of that very dangerous door that has been opened. If it were a blunder, just one, well here peace and then glory, but Ana Rosa Quintana's words this Monday are the drop that has filled a glass that has been filling day by day. The debate began when Ana Terradillos, collaborator of the Ana Rosa Quintana program , denied that the coronavirus was restricting the rights of citizens. "When there is no vaccine, when there is no viral treatment and when confinement is evidently demonstrated as the only valid measure ...", argued Terradillos. It was then that Ana Rosa Quintana responded in an unexpected way: "How long has AIDS been? Ten years? There is still no vaccine and we have learned to live with it . " And we were so calm.

Twitter, the platform in which everything is visible, in which everything is criticized, in which nothing goes unnoticed, was lit like a bonfire without control. And the problem is not that Ana Rosa Quintana is criticized on social networks, we are already more than used to that, and she probably also, the problem is that to defend what you believe, do not think that you are communicating to millions of people.

The problem is that in a program with so much audience, its presenter does not stop to think that comparing HIV with the coronavirus is a gross mistake. Not only because of the interpretation that can be given, that one gives can you interpret what comes out of the bolus, but because you are comparing a disease that, one, is not transmitted through the air; two, whose virus dies practically instantly outside the body; and, three, whose transmission is by sexual contact or fluid exchange, with a virus that is transmitted through the air and with high resistance in the environment, is too daring, to say the least.

And we must act as the devil's advocate because yesterday Ana Rosa Quintana screwed up, but she is not the only one. What Ana Rosa Quintana said yesterday is what the World Health Organization has said what they are supposed to know. Last week the WHO issued a further warning about the coronavirus, assuring that Covid-19 "could never go away" and compared it "with another endemic virus, with HIV." The problem is that the speaker that the WHO has is not anywhere near the one that Ana Rosa Quintana has . The problem is that Ana Rosa Quintana is a communicator and the WHO are experts (with their mistakes and their successes), the problem is that Ana Rosa Quinta releases it and says it as if she were teaching, as if it were a brainy analysis of her own harvest. And that's when the reason is lost.

The intention of the WHO when comparing the coronavirus with HIV was to show that the coronavirus does not go away or disappear, and that perhaps we will have to learn to live with it as we learned to live with HIV . Said like this, what doesn't sound like a pot? But said as Ana Rosa Quintana says it and being Ana Rosa Quintana the outcome cannot be any other. This comes long, not just from what he said yesterday. This comes from that many blunders at a time when the blunders come out more expensive than before. It comes from that program in which Ana Rosa Quintana interviewed a company that claimed that it could bring a test for coronavirus to Spain and that it had been made available to the Government without receiving more than a "thank you" response.

Those statements were described by Ana Rosa Quintana as a "scandal". 24 hours later, Ana Rosa Quintana herself reported that the Government had contacted them and had assured them that this company had never contacted them. It was not the only thing, days later it was discovered that many of the statements made by the owner of said company were false. Ana Rosa Quintana's program in the spotlight.

It was such that she got involved that Ana Rosa Quintana herself, who does not usually enter into this type of controversy, was unable to remain silent and launched into the air that she had spent a long time "discrediting" her program. It was the first blow, then others would come, others linked to the harsh criticism that Ana Rosa Quintana has launched about the Government's management in the face of the health crisis. But that is opinion, but that does respond and depends on who is in favor and who is against. It is very different from not contrasting, it is very different from talking about the coronavirus as if you were an expert without measuring that what is said goes beyond an opinion.

Pablo Motos and 11-M

And Pablo Motos has found himself in the same situation . If someone has become a scourge of the Sánchez Executive during this health crisis, it is Pablo Motos . Some days with more reason than others, some days with more anger than others, some days with more arguments than others. Exposing yourself so much, in the end it takes its toll. A Pablo Motos also the past has. Criticizing day by day and also the work of the Government, managing the pandemic or questioning whether things are being done right or wrong, places you at the center of the target. Pablo Motos has all this crisis in the center of the target. So much so that he has even been photographed without a mask leaving his house to give him a milk after repeating ad nauseam that the masks should be mandatory.

He has vehemently and unveiledly criticized the Government, has acted as an expert and specialist, has criticized even Fernando Simón's physical appearance, and has received as much applause as criticism for it. He is on target, as Ana Rosa is, he makes anything he says become a headline and a trending topic becomes a matter of seconds. Everything is looked at with a magnifying glass and, like Ana Rosa Quintana , the controversy is already part of her daily outfit. Last week Pablo Motos said that "we are every day in a 11-M" to refer to the death toll that occurs every day. "We've gotten used to a number a little bit," he said. Yesterday the Association 11-M Affected by Terrorism sent a statement showing its discomfort at the words of the presenter condemning that Pablo Motos compared the deaths from the coronavirus with the tragedy of the 11-M attack .

"Releasing this phrase like this, without further ado, in the context of a talk show in which the people who died by Covid-19 are being discussed at length, does not contribute, at all, to letting people know what happened on 11-M (. ..) That already recurring phrase is released 'we are every day in an 11-M' (or another similar one), without even making an outreach effort about what happened on 11-M ", the statement warns. Pablo Motos , again, in the spotlight.

Ana Rosa Quintana vs Pablo Motos , the two scourges of the Government, the two communicators who have risen to the top for criticizing the management against the coronavirus, the presenters who rise as fast as they descend. It seems to me a high price. No one says that they do not have an opinion, no one says that they do not show what others may want to silence, but it is as bad to silence it as to push it to the limit. Your job is to communicate, but how? They are not the only ones, but they are the ones most heard.

Why is this happening? This is the price to pay when there are times when a silence says much more and is more suitable than letting go of the first thing that comes to mind. These are very difficult times for everyone, where citizenship, which is the audience, is at the limit of limits. Anything, any controversy, any barrabasada is not only analyzed with a magnifying glass, it causes a confrontation that is increasingly present . Maybe we should start thinking about what is the job of communicating and, above all, start thinking that what communicators like Pablo Motos or Ana Rosa Quintana say has a significance that, sometimes, becomes very dangerous.

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