Pablo Motos continues in the eye of the hurricane. After various comedians used social networks in recent days to denounce alleged pressure from El Hormiguero and its production company, 7 y Acción, and to which he declined to comment publicly, the presenter is once again in the news for the criticism leveled at the Government in his program.
Specifically, Motos took advantage of this Tuesday's gathering, in which Rubén Amón, María Dabán, Miguel Lago and Juan del Val participated, to ask them a direct question: "Do you remember any other moment in democracy in which power was persecuted journalists who are critical?", he stated, after echoing some words from Carlos Alsina.
The presenter of Más de uno on Onda Cero assured, when collecting the Francisco Cerecedo award for journalism, that "now there is always someone telling you to shut up." To the question of the alleged accusations against journalists, Amón was the first to respond: "The end of Felipe González or the era of Aznar. Much less Zapatero and Rajoy," he assessed, ensuring that. "Now the difference is that the press is weaker than ever."
"This Government has begun to personally target journalists with the aim of intimidating them," he said immediately afterwards, addressing Motos for the constant criticism he has received in recent times. "You are an example, Pablo, but there are others. To single out a journalist means placing him in the pillory to be the object of verbal and not just verbal aggression. And when a Government takes a case against a press that is not tame, the "It is democracy that is damaged," stated Amón.
Juan del Val, for his part, pointed to the role of the media and assured that it does not only occur in the national government. "This Government has like-minded journalists, but that is not the press, and it happens to all those in power, it is not exclusive to this Government. The politician is responsible for trying to remain silent, but the journalist allows himself to be silenced permanently," stated the regular collaborator of The Anthill.
Another of the commentators, María Dabán, said that "the facts are being replaced by alternative facts." "History is no longer history and the truth is no longer true," she asserted, alluding to an amnesty "that now turns out to be progressive." Finally, Pablo Motos himself stated: "The great enemy that a sector wants to defeat is the truth. And if they break the truth, they break everything."
