Self-destruct in five seconds

The Eurovision hangover is multiplying the interpretations to explain the poor result of RTVE's representative at the festival held in Basel. On RNE (Spanish National Radio), Josep Cuní asks his listeners: "Do you think the professional jury's vote should carry more weight than the audience's?" It's a question that those responsible for Spain's participation in Eurovision also asked themselves when, in 2008, Rodolfo Chiquilicuatre entered the competition, thanks to a subversive process of popular acclaim. The program "Anatomía de... " (La Sexta) dissected all the ingredients of that episode, a monument to sabotage and trolling that achieved what would be impossible today, considering the pressure from Eurofan lobbies and the horizontal inquisition that governs social media.

This episode of Anatomy of... relativizes the rhetoric of geopolitical significance and diplomatic conflict attributed to the festival. A festival that remains, in addition to an audience-building machine, a self-parodying, eccentric, and at times entertaining gallery of horrors. On the morning talk show on Cope, they comment that the televoting is easily manipulated, and, speaking of Melody's song, former MP and journalist Anna Grau states: "In the shower, I'm also a brave diva."

The antagonist is the Entity, a totalitarian incarnation of artificial intelligence.

Previews of Mission: Impossible: Judgment Day are being announced for tomorrow, with its official release on Friday. It's the latest installment, they say, in the series of hits produced and starring Tom Cruise. Those who have already seen it say it's by far the most political film in the series. The shadowy antagonist is the Entity, a totalitarian and exterminating incarnation of artificial intelligence. Its omnipresent, messianic, Scientological protagonist places us in a context that seems like the diagnosis of a good editorialist. "Truth disappears and war arrives," Cruise says with a philosophical undertone that, throughout the two hours and forty-three minutes of footage, reminds us that the great enemy of humanity is fear (it's the same thing Pope Leo XIV said in his first speech).

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Former footballer Gary Lineker had already decided to retire as a BBC presenter before the accusation of antisemitism that has haunted and condemned him today. The media's immediacy is perverse because, while explaining that Lineker posted a comment containing antisemitic references online, he also adds that he apologized after explaining that he was unaware of its symbolic dimension. The news isn't lying because, in fact, Lineker is retiring. But the admitted error remains in the background and cannot prevent the accusation of antisemitism from prevailing over individual freedom of opinion and over the error of not counting to ten before posting a public message online and believing that our opinions can, like Tom Cruise, save the world.