Following addressed the issue several days ago, the silent revolution in Iceland, which has been a shift in the political landscape of this small European nation, there to wonder what the reason is that an event of this nature has not been reflected in the media, while every day we had breakfast and eat dinner (TVE has grown to three journalists in Cairo) to the events of the Maghreb, with popular uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya.
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goes without saying that I understand that normal is what is happening, informationally speaking, the Maghreb, that is, events of such significance that is collected by the media. What is surprising, since the presumed objectivity of the media, managers, in theory, tell us what happens, is the silence that hangs over Iceland. Because if things happen in Iceland, why do not we count them? So I venture to propose an explanatory hypothesis.
The treatment that the media are making the events of the Maghreb states that are democratic mobilization against authoritarian regimes. We will not go far to appreciate that from the overnight, friendly regimes, and in some cases as examples, see Tunisia, have become vicious dictatorships to that beacon of freedom and democracy which is called West demands respect for human rights and freedoms. We will not talk about it, this sister or Moroccan monarchy, so loved by our Crown. What I'm going to emphasize is that described the demonstrations as protests of citizens, says quote, "want to be like Europeans. "That is, we are so magnificent that the whole planet wants to be like us. It is difficult to know which targets the masses move in the Maghreb, uncertainty, deep, gnawing on our governments. Undoubtedly, projects politicians will be different: from radical Islamists to liberals, to communists, nationalists, and so on. But the media message is clear: they want to be like us. It's a way to emphasize how lucky we are because we do not have to resort to jeopardize our lives for freedom: we are free. So much so that we are the envy of the world. We continue our democratic nap, engrossed with the television and decide calmly and very democratically, who represents us in Eurovision or if the hand of defense in the penalty area was or not. Vote, vote you!
mobilizations in Iceland, those who have charged two governments, which have demanded the imprisonment of the country's economic jerifaltes, who have refused to assume the debts of banks, which have promoted a popular assembly to draft a new Constitution which have given the finger to the IMF and the markets, these demonstrations can not be presented by the media with sympathy but with concern. Because it would go up on stage to a people who, far from being reversed, to assume foreign debt and taxation irrational, has said enough. The imitation effect that cause the media is brutal. Television was at the center of the riots of the East, which began to imitate each other, it has been in the riots of the Maghreb, the effects are warning. For this we need silence to Iceland, or to mute the ten general strikes in Greece, will not be that Europeans give us for thinking that, man, like the Icelanders are right and true and that we are fooled. And started to meet in the streets, and catch pans, and tell the much-mount-Mount-both (PP-PSOE, CiU, PNV-PAR-CC) that so far we've come. He
unpronounceable Icelandic volcano, one that filled Europa de cenizas, sirve de perfecta metáfora para lo que acontece. El volcán político del norte debe ser silenciado, pues su nombre —no recuerdo bien si es democracia o participación popular—, en nuestras geografías políticas neoliberales, resulta impronunciable. Es preciso borrar las huellas de su erupción.
Juan Manuel Aragüés - El periódico de Aragón
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