“In 2017, when I was coming to Barcelona, I was arguing with my Catalan friends about the Catalan conflict. Then I would go to Madrid and argue with my friends from Madrid about the same thing. Several years later, we have understood that those who hung the banners of Parlem (Let’s talk), those who were accused of being good guys and equidistant, in the end they were right ”. The director of EL PAÍS, Pepa Bueno, sat down on Monday precisely to do that, to talk and debate about our present and the expectations of the future with three other heads of other media now that the pandemic begins to decrease its incidence. Did it in the talk Davant d’un post-pandemic cycle (Before a post-pandemic cycle), a meeting organized by this newspaper in collaboration with the Center for Contemporary Culture of Barcelona (CCCB) and moderated by the journalist Carla Turró in which the director of the newspaper participated Ara, Esther Vera; the deputy director of The vanguard, Lola García; and the deputy director of elDiario.es, Neus Tomàs.
”This crisis [la del coronavirus] It leaves us some dangers and opportunities and the greatest danger is fear, a lethal instrument ”, said Bueno. “We have verified how fragile our way of life is and that vulnerability creates fearful societies,” warned the director of this newspaper, who opted for a formula that involves strengthening the public and institutions. ”We are afraid that governments will forget about public policies, invest in research, know how much tourism we have to absorb without the neighbors being expelled and that Europe will be turned into a theme park. We are afraid that this fear will take away what we have learned. The post-pandemic world makes us wonder who wins and ask ourselves what world should we build with the climate crisis that we have above us, “he said.
During the almost two hours of debate, the journalists reflected on the social vulnerability and the cracks that have exposed the coronavirus crisis or the challenges of the institutions – from the constitutional reform to the monarchy. Also how to face the non-resolution of the Catalan conflict, how the media should maintain credibility in a polarized world – or, as Lola García defined, “sectarian” – or what should be the weight of women in the field of information .
“There is a change in the conception of globalization: there are more actors who do not want it to be so neoliberal and for it to be a globalization in which there are at least cooperation and governance agencies,” said García, who lamented the “generational and digital gap ”That has caused the pandemic.
Vera pointed to the need for a profound reform at the institutional level. “Strengthening democracy requires having just institutions. Spain needs to reform the Monarchy and the State of the autonomies. We are as we are because we did not dare to reform anything in the past ”.
Tomàs opted for social measures that accept that conflicts may not have a solution. “To achieve progress in self-government in infrastructures, the PSOE and the PP must understand that there can be no permanent blockade of the institutions. Trenches are not dug by themselves. Politicians have a responsibility, but so do the media. The media participate in this polarization, ”he said.
“We have the opportunity to reform what has aged badly. This pact of coexistence is needed with reinforced political majorities that do not exist. The only consensus that lasts, the one that has remained, is the leap in well-being that a whole generation noticed both in freedoms, in living with more means and in allowing the first generation of women to go to university ”, defended the director of EL COUNTRY. “We have lost more than a decade in making these changes, when the building showed signs of a deficit of materials, the time was not given for that pact of trust,” he settled.
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