Engineers vs. Pallets

It's understandable that the humanitarian crisis in Gaza is dominating the world's media attention. Amidst the vast outpourings of sermon-like indignation, there's little room for less terrifying realities. In Prats de Molló, before 1,500 faithful, President Carles Puigdemont commemorated the fifth anniversary of Junts with a speech consistent with his grandiloquent rhetorical style. Paraphrasing the essayist Giuliano da Empoli, author of The Engineers of Chaos , Puigdemont referred to the "architects of chaos" and championed Junts' ideology as that of the "soldiers of hope."

The program Xplica (La Sexta) plays the audio recordings of what they call "Koldo's catalog." Beyond the vulgar filth they exude, the audio recordings are evidence of a hidden vocation for pimping. Attracted by the magnetism of the fallen tree, the panelists revel in their luck. The plurality of the discussion panel is a replica of the two-party system understood as an option to transcend, influence, and, if possible, earn a living in the jungle of commentary . Gonzalo Miró is a star of the talk shows, not so much for what he says as for the impact his interventions—the implacable grimace and dialectical harshness of an Atlético de Madrid center back—have on the internet. That's how Noelia Núñez began, earning a reputation in the digital universe that hasn't been certified by the ballot box or the academic rigor of the real world, and ending up as a panelist for Mediaset.

Social networks are the source of radio and television commentators.

Criticizing political parties for promoting certain spokespersons based on their social media following is an act of hypocrisy: many media outlets, audiovisual production companies, publishers, and online prostitution platforms do exactly the same. On Cope, Paco Rosell and Ignacio Camacho wonder if the famous socialist Peugeot shouldn't have also addressed prostitution issues. A victim of a burst of eloquence, Rosell applies to Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez a phrase he attributes to Frida Kahlo ("Whatever you say, you are what you do"). It's a phrase that Google's terrible memory attributes, in different words, to Carl Jung.

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Xplica completes its offering with, oh my, Miguel Angel Revilla. For years, Revilla has been mobilizing audiences that, when you talk to television experts, no one can explain. With decadent eloquence, Revilla laments that politicians falsify their resumes. “What a desire to pretend to be what you are not!” he declares, perhaps because he knows that, no matter what he says, he doesn't need to fake it to be who he is. A few years ago, an engineer of television chaos explained to me that programs invite Revilla not out of conviction or a specific idea of content, but to verify that, in fact, the audience increases. “It's like programming Pretty Woman : it always works,” he told me back when we still didn't know that even Pretty Woman would cease to be what it was.