Folks, I keep complaining about how egregiously dishonest US news programs are but on Friday I prepared an in-class activity based on a Spanish newscast, and American news are a beacon of impartiality and honesty in comparison. Not even Hamas itself would be able to construct such an effective piece of pro-Hamas propaganda.
There were several pro-Hamas segments in the newscast. All news items that were actually about Spain were extremely trivial and geared to make an impression that what happens locally is boring.
I quit watching because I already saw all this crap back in the USSR. Spaniards keep self-congrarulating that they are free from the Franco dictatorship. I watched many Franco-era newsreels. They were more honest and informative that whatever garbage Spain’s free press offers. Mind you, I’m not suggesting they were honest. The dictatorship sucked. But at least everybody knew it was a dictatorship. Now people think they are free but they are fed such Jew-hating drivel that Franco himself never dared to speak aloud.
I’m seeing the Spain that expelled my ancestors in 1492. I never thought I’d see it but it’s come back.
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