The Social Damages of the Information

The Social Damages of the Information
By Fernando Buen Abad
They do not typify or penalize, with the most obvious ethical or legal rigors, the damages produced by disinformation and which are always very severe against the social fabric, wherever they occur. There are no mitigating factors. At this point in history, the thematic agenda that is indispensable for any society is neither a mystery nor an indecipherable enigma. There is no territory on the planet that has no urgency to know what happens (really) with the economy, not as the plot of procrastinated negotiators guilty of misery but as the crude and hard reality of the whereabouts of the riches produced by the workers. And on that reigns information starvation. There is no territory that does not require knowing, with scrupulous clarity, what "politicians" do, not because of the toxic framework of the traffic of influences, favors or hatred between them, but because of the quality and quantity of the social problems that must be dealt with under mandate. democratic. There is no planet span that can rely on its social structure without knowing the full dynamics of the advancement of its rights and its responsibilities in the face of the complexity of its historical dialectic, in the sciences, in the arts, in conflict and especially in the evolution of their struggles, each and every one, in the complex spectrum of behaviors in community. And that is what is most silenced and distorted. Defacing the facts is also de-informing.

The Social Damages of the Information




A long time ago, in the methods and scientific instruments of informative production, the excuse of ignorance ceased to have value. What is published - or what is silenced - has the mark of the "intelligence" groups, public or private, that operate inside and outside the media. There the data is cooked, its extension, its depth, its quality and its quantity. There, the themes are defined and the obligatory informative "canon" that a society requires for its daily performance is defined. But under capitalism, which has also turned information into a commodity, kidnapped for political or mercenary tribulations, the "canon" (the obligatory minimum set of information) does not obey the social production of collective knowledge but the logic of ignorance of the market

Such "canon" and its historical dialectic are today an unavoidable reference to measure the quality and quantity of production, distribution and dialogue with the information offered. There are age profiles, of gender, of trade, of political, aesthetic or scientific orientations. There are sufficient data, geographical, economic, political and cultural abundant climatological, as to provide entire societies with relevant, timely, comprehensive and critical information. Without excuses, without pretexts and without omissions. And, above all, provide the "canon" with scientific truth, diverse, rich, consensual and permanently enriched. There are advanced methods to guarantee this despite the fact that the fog of mediocrity and servility that covers most "media" does not allow the strength of science to be known at the service of everyday social information.

To disinform is not only to suspend the "transmission" of "data", it is also to bury a mandatory informative social canon. It is to reduce the act of informing the convenience of the manufacturers of "news". It is to write corpus severed, at the whim of an offensive against the conscience of the interlocutors, to give them a vision (or notion) of the deformed, disfigured, uninformed reality. It is a fraud from end to end. It is not a more or less interested or biased "omission" ... it is not a "failure" of the method; it is not an accident of narrative logic; it is not an incident in the composition of reality; it is not a "peccata minuta" of "neglect"; it is not an erratum of the observer; It is not technical myopia nor is it, of course, "gaje del oficio". It is simply and plainly a ruse against knowledge, a crime against humanity. It is like depriving people of their Right to Education.

 
At this point in history and especially in the history of the "media", any excuse for not informing timely, broadly and responsibly is unsustainable and unbearable. There is no right that justifies the deliberate action of silencing what happens and, in the unlikely event that a media outlet does not know what is happening, that medium really does not deserve any respect. The excuse of "not knowing", of "not knowing", of "not having information" for, therefore, not assuming the professional and ethical responsibility that is incumbent upon an informative medium ... is frankly suspicious and ridiculous. Give up! No people should bear the induced inefficiency of a means, granted by such society, for the professional and obligatory exercise of transmitting the information that is social property. There is enough technology and methodology that invalidate all elaborate palaver to excuse the miserable intentions of those who misinform. Even if they do it by lying with finely elaborated ambushes in psychological warfare laboratories.

"Article: 19 Every individual has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; This right includes the right not to be disturbed because of their opinions, to investigate and receive information and opinions, and to disseminate them, without limitation of borders, by any means of expression. "Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In view of all the ruminations invented by capitalism to violate the legitimate right of peoples to the best information evaluated ethically and scientifically by societies, it would be well to instruct a legal-political revolution towards a new, irreversible Social Justice that would have Priority axes are those of Culture and Communication as inalienable. In other words, Culture, Communication and Information can never be reduced, delayed or bargained for the interest of the ruling class against the needs of the oppressed classes, with impunity.