Using fear and the threat of insecurity to
manipulate the people, corporate media, in bed with government, over the years
having become the mouthpiece of government control...
Publicado el 1/29/16 • en el tema
EL MUNDO EN CRISIS
TEN ANGELES / The information no longer exists, substitutes it propaganda
TEN ANGELES - The information no longer exists, has been replaced by
propaganda. Nor they are and journalists, have been plundered by
paraperiodistas. There are many examples but not the analysis that help
us understand how they operate and what the objectives of practices that
have degraded the media ecosystem to make it disappear are.
If
that person is said paramilitary affiliated with a civil organization
with military discipline or structure [1] we can say that the
paraperiodistas are those affiliated with media reporters following a
briefing military discipline throwing bombs on the targets defined by
their companies. In the case serves as an example the target is
Venezuela, particularly the Bolivarian process and step involved in
shaping the next government of the Kingdom of Spain. The paraperiodistas
long as Americans river crabs (more voracious, larger and
insubstantial) who invaded the Spanish rivers to exterminate the
natives, so this new journalistic species whose employers have links to
US corporations swim by feeding our fears and TV prejudices of public
opinion to serve their masters.
Television is the medium where
most often operates this large predator, perhaps because, as shown in
General Media Survey (2015), the TV has 88.3% of the audience, beating
great distance to rest. It is on TV where the paraperiodista is more
effective and deadly sample because the characteristics of television
make it an ideal place to attack the emotions, manage stereotypes,
reinforce prejudices and preset views, and block reflection means.
The news-bomb that issued the Antena 3 channel, on Friday 22 January,
had the headline: "The images showing the relationship of the CUP, and
the environment we ETA with the regime of Nicolas Maduro" and continued
"Antenna 3 Noticias get exclusive images showing the relationship of the
Catalan independence of the CUP, and the environment we ETA's regime in
Venezuela Nicolas Maduro. Representatives of the three groups traveled
to Venezuela in a military plane that usually usually use the Venezuelan
president himself. "
Such attacks always appear with the sign
"exclusive", this allows better attract the attention of the viewer that
is indicating you can not find what you will see in other media. After
consecutive days appear in "revelations" must be maintained for as long
as possible expectation of something new that will be known. He spoke of
"the 13 mature" [2], and together with small doses of blurred images,
disjointed and opinions disguised as news claims will be reduced speech
just three terms that are of interest set in the viewer: Venezuela, The
CUP, can and ETA.
The "news", or rather, the slogan to be fixed will be replicated in
different ways, to create a "current", ie a campaign. At first as it's
media conglomerates (set of media companies) are subsidiaries Antena 3
and Onda Cero, Antena 3 International, the sixth, and then other media
who are interested in joining the wave for ideological reasons but
usually because they share the same interests, in this case Venezuela
attack and conveniently guide the political agreements of the new
legislature.
The air of mystery that is achieved with small doses
and sequenced using the "exclusive" terms and "revelations" not only
keeps the focus but reinforces the imagination of something illegal,
prohibited, punishable. The mood achieved prevents the viewer becomes
logical questions such as how can a Venezuelan plane took off a Spanish
airport without knowledge and authorization of the Spanish authorities?
And if the authorities would not be authorized because it was perfectly
legal and public? If the plane was one linked to ETA or just terrorism
person why he was allowed to take that aircraft, even more so knowing
that all Spaniards who left the country both private airports and public
have to go through passport control? And if we would a ruling of the
CUP and the other in a passage of 32 people what political affiliation
had the rest and why it is important for these people and not the rest?
What about the rest of the people of Spanish nationality who were in
that plane? Are Assuming both leaders attend an event on ETA, was an
illegal act? Is it also illegal to attend an event on Islamic
fundamentalism? If the broadcaster believes that the law was violated or
attend an event on independence would automatically make one a
terrorist, why does not report to the Spanish authorities or justice?
Are the images alone can prove that there are agreements or ties
between people? Why myself, a university professor, appear in the news,
with pictures of previous years, a March 2014 made a tribute to Chavez
in which Pablo Iglesias was the presenter and presented dozens of people
and other one 2012 conference when even was created Can we? It is why
we are linking me since its foundation when I sustained a very critical
position with this political formation [3]? Maybe because soil often
reveal the media war and manipulation techniques employed [4]? Or
because I have always defended the legitimacy of the Bolivarian
government and non-interference of the Spanish government [5]?
War propaganda always acts on land previously bombarded. In this case
there is already an opinion matrix formed by all the Spanish mainstream
media to stop the process of revolutionary transformation undertaken by
President H. Chavez. The matrix has been built on two coordinates:
identify the Bolivarian government as a dictatorship and repression of
the opposition. Never mind that there have been over 20 elections
supported by international agencies, by Spanish deputies of the left and
right, or that the opposition has won the last elections and is
majority in the Venezuelan Congress in Venezuela. For viewers used to
learn on television it is as if there were these elections. The same
applies to the issue of political repression, it matters little that
detainees and convicted as the case of Leopoldo Lopez and Antonio
Ledezma politicians, have been felony conspiracy and terrorist plans in
our own country would have had more convictions long. On the other hand,
for a Spanish audience and conservative parties, ETA terrorism has
given much play to support or condemn political options, to anchor the
most volatile part of the electorate, and it has already become a
warning label an enemy government. The acronym ETA, if this paranoticia
are emptied of content and its only function is disqualifying.
We
analyze the news builds on these preset axes. Its main objective is to
feed the viewer animosity towards the Bolivarian government and
incidentally can impair the image and CUP, just at a time when debt
markets and business circles voices ask again a stable government ensure
continuity of spoliation. Any of the scenarios that will materialize
and preconditioned. If it is a pact PSOE-can-nationalism, this campaign
will force they are continually showing his moderation and
responsibilities of state. If the pact is PP-PSOE-citizens, the
electorate will have already "understood" that is the most reasonable
option for stability. If the elections are repeated may continue scaring
the public with campaigns to moderate wear and limit the options for
change and decant the electorate viable options to government (from the
point of view of business interests). Of course, these paraperiodÃsticos
bombing has nothing to do with who we are or CUP options left, they are
not even processing of the substance. The means paraperiodistas are
also political subjects and depending on their shareholders more like
those or other options. The paraperiodista, as the paramilitary acts in
defense of who pays and values are those of the company. In what is
state policy (now) no ideological differences that are worth, the media
do not compete with each other, agree. The contradictions that anyone
can see between the programs of the sixth or the Antena 3 are the result
of distribution of hearings, it is to cover all possible fronts and
that the format changes giving a more youthful, modern or progressive
appearance.
Let's go to the payer, or from which aircraft
missiles are launched because it helps to understand the specific
composition of the missile. In this case it's Antena 3 television
Atresmedia belonging to the group chaired by José Creuheras previously
by Jose Manuel Lara Bosch (2003-2015) and previously by Javier Godo
(1989-1992). The mother company is Atresmedia TV Atresmedia was who in
1989 received one of the three licenses for private television in Spain.
(I leave the curious reader to investigate about these characters,
their connections with financial, productive capital and political
figures highlighted [6]).
The origin of Antena 3 TV that leads
then to the Corporation (media group of companies under the name
Atresmedia) is on the radio Antena 3 S.A. (1982-1989) in which the
majority shareholder was the publishing company La Vanguardia (52%) and
ABC-Press Spanish (13%) Europa Press agency and the Zeta Group. Already
in 1989, as radio was the first corporation in the field of
communication which came to public company [7] and between 1992 and
1997, Antena 3 was linked to the PRISA group as we know, thanks to the
government of Felipe González and his ties with the PSOE spread
throughout Latin America.
From 1997 another great company with
business interests in Latin America, Telefonica, becomes the majority
shareholder of the company Antena 3 (49%) and Banco Santander (29%) also
in expansion in Latin America is made with a significant number of
actions [8]. Since 2003 the largest group is the Grupo Planeta in 2012
and will merge with GIA La Sexta.
As we see, the media
corporations have a common ideology which determines his speech at the
national and international politics: the business. When capital is at
stake companies do not compete with each other, a pact. They defend
their interests influencing public opinion that is who in representative
systems, tips the balance in favor of one government or another better
or worse defend the economic benefits of its allies. For Atresmedia
companies and individuals (entrepreneurs and paraperiodistas) that have
marked their editorial lines in different historical periods have had
one or another interest form, ie business in Latin America and therefore
a government like Venezuela provisions to govern according to criteria
other than maximum profit for the elites, necessarily it has become an
enemy to beat.
In the case of Antena 3 and Atresmedia and his
campaign against Venezuela there is also a connection with the great
enemy of the Bolivarian government that is the entrepreneur Gustavo
Cisneros, curiously, gained Spanish citizenship recently. Cisneros is
the great Venezuelan communications magnate whose media account for 60%
of Venezuela's hearing [9], is Venezuela's richest man and also has
business in other areas like real estate. In 2014 the government of
Spain headed by Mariano Rajoy gave his wife owns Phelps foundation,
principal patron of the Queen Sofia Foundation and owns the most
complete collection of Latin American art world, the Civil Order of
Alfonso X the Wise.
Cisneros has long been trying to invest in
Spain especially in the world of communication. Sixth she tried to buy
when he was president Zapatero but lost the bid with the Zeta Group
(with whom he shares in Antena 3 between 1992-97) His interest is not
only trying to acquire some regional television (Telemadrid and Canal
Sur) but wants audiovisual content produced by your company in the US to
enter Spain. In fact Venevision (the leading media company) has sold to
Telecinco and Antena 3 various productions. Cisneros currently has
interests in 30 companies and has customers in more than 90 countries. A
resume their business must be added the staff complements: personal
friend of former Spanish prime minister Felipe González (that is lately
very active in his meddling in Venezuelan politics), also of US
President Gerge Bush, former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and
billionaire David Rockefeller. In November 2015 the communication and
media group Cisneros and private equity fund Velum Ventures invested $
2.5 million in the company of Colombian origin Fluvip to consolidate its
expansion in Latin America, USA and Spain [10].
Every great
entrepreneur defends their interests so it is not unreasonable to
suggest that Cisneros interests pull the strings available to guide the
next government in Spain and of course to shoot from the outside against
the Bolivarian government.
The ownership of the media, their
links with banks, institutions and other forms of capital helps us
understand the objectives in the news that are built are inserted. The
way the media operate and the weapons they use allow us to understand
how we influence.
Television is not only the means that
monopolizes the formation of public opinion on politics, it has also
acquired a monopoly of emotions. The news are not as if they can not
sensacionalizarse. The main weapon is the spectacle paraperiodista and
dramatization. Bourdieu said on television that "staged in images, an
event and exaggerate its importance, its severity and its dramatic
character, tragic" [11] and that this is key to manipulate emotions.
Moreover, even if it seems that the images are the basis of television
news, reality, as shown in the "news" of Antena 3 model we use it is
that the images alone are incomprehensible "It takes extraordinary
words. In fact, paradoxically, the world of the image is dominated by
"[12]. If we see a leader riding on a bus CUP someone has to tell us
what it is, do we have to do. If we put in relation to Venezuela, we,
the CUP and ETA someone has to explain and tell us what we are seeing in
some fragments of images, usually incomprehensible. The images simply
create reality effects, so stock images, other facts are removed, the
decontextualized and are used to tell otherwise. Actually assemblies
that are presented as news is made.
Viewers are always ready to
believe what, or match their world view, or is presented as a fact. What
hangs in the air is collected by the paraperiodista reworked scraps
here and there and fired back to the audience with news format, that is,
with facts, names, etc. Thus preconceptions acquire value of reality.
News are built to consumer tastes.
Marx said about commodity
fetishism that when a product became commodity production footprints
were erased. Social conditions, context and objectives of the news
disappear swallowed by the voracious hungry viewer always spectacular
news. What matters is that it is hidden the production process of the
news and the objectives pursued.
Journalists often think that
when we analyze their practices and when he investigates the objectives
and logic of the media is making a complaint against someone, or being
attacked. Nothing close to reality as any basic research on the media by
turning them into objects of research, gives the result that
journalists are malipuladores much as manipulated and can not shake the
responsibility of killing consciences, in the same way a mercenary or a
professional soldier kills human beings. The paraperiodistas, their
bosses, politicians and pundits who finance, promote and agree that this
kind deprede our communicational environment are responsible for the
devastation of our minds, of misrepresentation and manipulation that
tries to thwart the will of the people and if not get it paves the way
for armed intervention or military coups.
