Je suis Vicente Vallés

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We are all Vicente Vallés , and I say this without my sticks falling from the shadow and waiting for my hosts to drop like loaves. The problem is that we are not all Vicente Vallés because of the attacks, lashes and others experienced in recent weeks between the journalist and Unidas Podemos, I say this because what Vicente Vallés represents is not being the worst nightmare of the formation of Pablo Iglesias, nor the critical voice with the party, nor its worst nightmare. What Vicente Vallés represents is the image of those who, for not saying what they expect, for not taking communion with mill wheels, for doing their job well, have to face the hordes of hatred and disqualifications.

Although you are one of those who think and believe that the criticisms and attacks by Unidas Podemos towards Vicente Vallés are correct, think for a moment if you have not ever found yourself on the side of the journalist of the Antena 3 news programs . Surely you have ever been the target of excessive attacks for thinking differently, giving an opposite opinion or simply dismantling with certainty the arguments of others. Nobody says that the information given by a journalist is not questioned, nobody says that you have to agree with the opinions of a media outlet, but it is one thing to question, and even criticize, and quite another to "naturalize the insult" and convert on target because you just don't like what they're saying.

Whoever says it's not that he's lying. The same has not been when it comes to talking about politics or what some do and others do, the same has simply been to decide something as trivial as in which restaurant to eat or what gift to give to a friend or who to invite to your birthday. . It is the result of the ease that there is now of putting someone in the target with the same ease that one goes down to buy a loaf of bread. It is as if we are all waiting for someone to open their mouths and say something with which we do not agree to remove all the weapons and defenestrate it .

The problem is that in the case of Vicente Vallés what he is doing is his work. And there will be many who believe that by showing a reality that they do not like, Vicente Vallés turns more to one side than to the other, or thinks that he is manipulating, or thinks that he is not doing it to inform but to attack. Well, feeling it very much, what Vicente Vallés does does not respond to any of that, he responds to his work, to his work of reporting telling everything, the good and the bad, what we like and what we dislike. And do you know the best? If you don't like it, you are free to change the channel and go to another news program. Nobody puts a gun to our heads or holds our eyelids with tweezers so that we can see what we disagree with. Everyone is free to inform themselves in whatever medium they consider. That you prefer to be told the news as you would like it to be, because there are possibilities as many as you want.

The beginning of everything

Because really the question that must be asked is what Vicente Vallés has done to become the nightmare of Podemos , the scourge of Pablo Iglesias in, and this is the truth, a journalist who, although many believe that he does not, does his job. And how has all this started? And how is it possible that Vicente Vallés , one of the best-rated news anchors, has all the lights on him? Well let's go in parts. It all started a while ago, in January of this year, when he interviewed Pablo Iglesias in the evening edition of the Antena 3 newscasts . It was the first time that Iglesias had attended an Atresmedia space and as second vice-president of the Government.

The interview started like all interviews with any member of the Government or politician. The leader of Unidas Podemos spoke on various topics: his differences with Pedro Sánchez, his approaches to deal with the situation in Catalonia or criticism of Dolores Delgado's candidacy for state attorney general after having been Minister of Justice. But it was a question about Irene Montero that generated a tense confrontation between the journalist and the politician.

In the final part of the interview, Vicente Vallés told him: "I am going to run the risk of being politically incorrect with you." And then he asked him if he saw any inconvenience in the fact that there is a couple in the Council of Ministers, referring to the one formed by Iglesias and Montero, Minister of Equality. An uncomfortable question, without a doubt; a question, politically incorrect, but a question that I stake a hand that many of us who were sitting at home watching the interview have asked ourselves at some point. Why is it okay for us not to ask it and not okay for a journalist to ask it directly? I think we have become used to the fact that when a journalist interviews a politician, either the politician leaves for peteneras and it seems normal to us, or the journalist, asks the questions that will least bother them.

Vallés's question, "politically incorrect"

Iglesias at that time defended himself saying that this is "something habitual" and that in many political parties there are "couples in leading positions". And he noted next that "also in the media of this group there are couples who share very important responsibilities." The story is that who is vice president of the Government is he, who was being interviewed was him and not the journalists of Atresmedia who are a couple. But still, the one who got the most criticism and the one who became a trending topic the next morning was Vicente Vallés , for having asked a politically incorrect question to Pablo Iglesias, instead of having submitted to the script to which it seems that we have already used. In fact, what should be seen as normal is for a journalist or presenter to ask incisive questions, questions that answer citizens' doubts, and not make a politically incorrect question the greatest of sins.

It was the first in a long list that would increase after the state of alarm for the coronavirus was declared. Vicente Vallés is not a doll that sits behind a table and reads the teleprompter. If there is something that characterizes Vicente Vallés, it is that in the news programs he presents, he not only gives the news but also gives an analysis of the same, which goes further. Just as newspapers have their editorial line, their columnists, always close to that line, and their editorials, a news program can also question things and criticize them. In the case of Vicente Vallés throughout this situation, he has been very critical, especially with the death figures given by the Government. And I ask the same question again: who has not questioned that these figures are not exact, that those figures are not accurate?

On June 1, Vallés became Trending Topic again, questioning the official number of zero deaths due to the coronavirus. The journalist said in the newscast exactly that "the Government officially says that in the last 24 hours no one has died from a coronavirus in Spain. Hopefully it is true, but it says so despite the fact that today between Madrid, Catalonia, Castilla y León and Castilla -La Mancha adds 29 deaths "The words of Fernando Simón that day in his daily press conference in which he pointed out that the cases were being" given by date of death "did not convince the presenter who remarked that it would have to be seen" in the next days if the Ministry of Health adjusts the figures again or if it maintains them ".

"The Government says that in the last week 35 people have died and in total there are 27,127. This is the official data of the Government. The reality seems to be a different one," he added, and again, Vicente Vallés was the coconut. And now how are we with the figures? It seems that what Vicente Vallés was so criticized for is being fulfilled. While the CCAA give some figures of the outbreaks, of the contagions, of the dead, the Ministry of Health continues giving others that do not coincide. Who do we believe? To whom everyone loves, but I don't think there is anyone who doesn't doubt or question it.

The next day, on Tuesday, June 2, the Antena 3 Noticias driver spoke again of the differences between the figures shared by the Government and those of the autonomous communities. He went further and pointed out that the Ministry of Health had given figures that did not agree. He explained that, taking into account the information provided daily for the past week, 10 people had died from coronavirus . But on the other hand, the same body had indicated that 34 deaths had been registered in the last seven days.

The Purge

And the week of the crucifixion arrived, the week in which Vicente Vallés would return to be Treding Topic, but not because of a politically incorrect question, or because he questioned the data, but simply because he was a journalist - as if the other times he had not It would have been for that. The revelations of the Dina Case that have put and continue to put Pablo Iglesias on the ropes caused the weekend that, taking a cinephile license, I have called La Purga . For those who have not seen the film, the plot is a country where crimes are not committed because one night a year everyone who wants to can go out to kill, steal and do everything that is not done the rest of the year. He can attack whoever he wants because he knows or believes, rather, that no one is going to stop him.

On Friday, July 3, in an interview on RNE, the second vice president of the Government activated the strategy of attacking the press. A day later, through Twitter, Pablo Echenique , was again the target of his attacks, questioning his "professionalism", following the line of Iglesias who already called him "alleged journalist".

"In reality what happens to Vicente Vallés is simple and it is the same thing that happens to all the right and the extreme right: It causes a rash that the sewers did not achieve their objective and United We can be in the government." It is their right , but don't call it 'informative' ", read Echenique's tweet, which was accompanied by a video called The Last Hour , the medium promoted by Podemos and in whose direction is Dina Bousselham , the one on the mobile phone, in which she questioned all the Information that Vicente Vallés has given about Podemos and in which he has questioned the formation or its general secretary, with phrases such as "Vallés, outraged that the sewer campaign against Podemos did not prevent him from reaching the Government" or "The great moments of Vicente Vallés and A3Media against Podemos ", the video collected information from other media about Vicente Vallés and Podemos. Vicente Vallés was not the first, there were many others before ( Carlos Alsina , Àngels Barceló ...) and I don't know why it gives me that tampo co will be the last.

Why again Vicente Vallés ? Well, because two days before, the presenter dedicated a piece to telling that Vox was going to report the Dina Bousselham case to the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor. The video included statements by Isa Serra , co-spokesperson for Unidas Podemos, who told the media: "I think what we are seeing, which is being used by Vox, is simply trying to give that campaign a twist. against Podemos from the sewers of the State ".

Dina's case and "naturalizing the insult"

Vallés commented after these words that " Podemos has subscribed, as you can see, to this speech that he already used in the elections that there is a campaign for the sewers of the State, a campaign that, if it exists, has not prevented Podemos from being in the power or that its leader is vice president of the Government. " And Vicente Vallés to the fore.

And what did Vicente Vallés do ? Well, the same thing that he has always done and that he has been criticized for so much -although they have also applauded him-: remove the disqualification and continue giving information. I repeat information that you may or may not like. Following the words of Pablo Iglesias in which from La Moncloa defended the need to "naturalize" that journalists receive both "criticism and insults on social networks." "I have read things on social networks that I do not share and that I do not like. Vicente Vallés has been told about everything: they have told him that he is like Javier Negre with a suit and a newscast, they have called him 'cloaquín' ... I I can't identify with that. I don't like it. And I think I'm saying it being someone who knows they insult him on social media and tell him everything, "said the vice president. Vallés replied.

After showing a video of Pablo Iglesias' statements from La Moncloa, Vallés pointed out: "As you have heard, the vice president considers that in an advanced democracy, not only criticism but also insults must be naturalized. In fact, Pablo Iglesias has Quoted verbatim some of the insults he has found on social media targeting journalists. He says he doesn't like them. " An opinion that not only shared the journalist, but also members of the Government of which Pablo Iglesias as Margarita Robles , among others.

But the thing was not going to stop there. If at any time a thinking mind believed that pointing at or attacking Vallés was going to scare him, he was wrong. Vallés has no intention of keeping silent or continuing to do the news as he has always done, although it only seems that we have realized how he did it when he became a Trending Topic. The Dina case , present for weeks in all the media, was part of the news once again. "Pablo Iglesias says he is a victim of powerful sectors among which he points to certain journalists and the media. He assures that they intend to remove Podemos from the government," he said. It gave way to a piece showing a fragment of the vice president's speech at a rally in the Basque Country. Vallés, after the video, went back to saying the same thing he had already said: " Pablo Iglesias already used this electoral campaign strategy in previous years, in previous elections, the strategy of confronting certain journalists and the media." Are you lying No. Does it manipulate? Neither. The videos are there, the tweets are there and nobody has taken anything out of the top hat. You only have to look in the newspaper archive, and not much.

Now Vicente Vallés and what he says about Podemos makes headlines everywhere. It seems that Vicente Vallés had never reported Podemos and suddenly he does it at all hours. But it's not like that. He has reported Podemos as many times as others have reported and as many times as Podemos or Pablo Iglesias have been protagonists. On Monday, Vicente Vallés in the newsletter reported -valuable the redundancy- of the electoral bump of United Podemos in Galicia and the Basque Country became again in news, when in fact it was a report that all the media gave and that all the analysts pointed out. But it seems that if Vicente Vallés does it it is only because we can has put him on target. And in part, yes, but above all because there always has to be a scapegoat, someone who hogs the spotlight, someone who is singled out for doing what we all do, not keeping silent. The day we keep it is when we will have to worry.

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