'Handsome guy at school' or 'maximum representative of resistance?' Pedro Sánchez's 2024 'Letter to the citizenry' as reported in El Mundo and El País as a case study of flak.

While alert to the porosity between popular culture and journalism that addresses formal politics, this study examines the hazards of news that prioritizes effecting a popular voice-over reality-driven reporting. The case at the heart of the study illustrates the difference between professionalized...

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Publicado en:Journal of European Popular Culture Vol. 16; no. 1; pp. 7 - 26
Autor principal: Goss, Brian Michael
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Publicado: Intellect Ltd. Apr2025
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      ab: While alert to the porosity between popular culture and journalism that addresses formal politics, this study examines the hazards of news that prioritizes effecting a popular voice-over reality-driven reporting. The case at the heart of the study illustrates the difference between professionalized journalism and news structured by the vernacular of tabloidesque discourse. In April 2024, the president of Spain's government, Pedro Sánchez, stunned the nation by announcing a pause in his public duties for five days of reflection. Sánchez contemplated resignation over a contentious investigation into his wife's alleged influence peddling, accusations that credible law enforcement sources dismissed. On 29 April, Sánchez affirmed that he would continue to govern. This study examines 121 articles (24–29 April) in two high-circulation Spanish newspapers with contrasting ideological postures: El Mundo (political right) and El País (left). With tabloid accents, El Mundo's pushed delegitimizing flak towards Sánchez, his Socialist party and the political left peppered with belittlement in personalized terms. By contrast, left-leaning El País entertains some criticisms of Sánchez while its textured coverage explains the flak harassment as an attempt to relitigate the terms of Spain's democracy. El País's baseline professionalism tempers partisan leanings to educate the readership, a sharp contrast with El Mundo's polarizing flak discourses that remake the news as a media circus.
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