Spain is a country that has not been at peace with itself for a long time, and in 2020 - it is worth it, on the eve of 2020 - we return to a point where our traditional values ​​are besieged. Curiously, in the news media that siege focuses primarily on bullfighting or national holiday, a symbol of our essences or our barbarism, depending on the side from which you look. Yesterday one side was imposed significantly.

The bullfighting space of the main radio station, the SER, abruptly said goodbye in chain with the live goodbye of its spokesman and symbol, Manolo Molés , after 49 years in the station. The political correctness of the moment was imposed in one of the main Spanish audiovisual media and although Molés implied that he will soon be heard in another medium, the impact is still capitalized.

It is interesting to verify that the SER chain was not controlled by PRISA until 1984, and that by then the bulls were already in the company of the Polanco and Juan Luis Cebrián a more than controversial issue. When El País appeared in 1976, the topic of informing or not doing so about the national holiday was already discussed. In the end, with a chronicler as well-known as Joaquín Vidal, it ended up being done, but the references to the ideological and journalistic predecessor of El País , the newspaper El Sol of the years of the First Republic, were not lacking: in El Sol , bullfighting was "the so-called national holiday", and in El País they have not ceased since their birth to publish ardent allegations against the coverage of something as cruel and primitive as bulls.

So in the end the SER, not El País , has taken the step and cut with barbarism. It would be desirable for both to coordinate fully and stop reporting a show that is legal, that has millions of fans and that is deeply integrated into the Spanish cultural tradition. And, incidentally, that they began to protest the slaughter of animals in the slaughterhouses from which food comes out that, oh, horror !, we consume the Spaniards.

But everything will go. Progressivism will soon end the information about the deaths, any death, of defenseless animals. It is the new era of winning animalism and ensuing veganism. Goodbye bulls. Goodbye, lamb chops. Goodbye, Cantimpalos sausages . We are already civilized.

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