He has been analyzing power for more than 20 years. She is the author of the first thesis on the Bilderberg Club, has been censored and qualified as “Queen of Conspiracy,” as she herself tells. Now publishes “the tyranny of lies”, a book that addresses media manipulation and digital censorship; Analyze the DANA as an example of the disinformation climate in which we move, and, above all, it offers some idea of how to face it.
How does media manipulation originate and evolve?
In the first part of the book I expose how the big conglomerates have been forming and buying the media. In the same group you find shareholders today that are, at the same time, owners of the media, pharmaceuticals, food companies … There are very large economic interests that condition journalism. This evolution was already seen at the end of the 19th century, when magnates like Rockefeller began to buy publishers so that the USA enters world wars. These great US media, becoming the dominant power, are marking the editorial lines. Now, the plutocratic system is suffered by all, in traditional media and on platforms or social networks. These promised an increase in democracy, but they have led us to a more misinformative system that causes the public to feel even abandoned by the press.
How does a citizen of misinformation defend himself?
With knowledge. We have to know who the media agents are and what intentions they have. There is a discipline that is media literacy. In school they do not teach us to read a newspaper.
Is free journalism possible?
Many channels are emerging, platforms that are being used to do journalism. This also leads us a little to chaos, because not everything on platforms is journalism. The old does not die and the new has not been born either, so I repeat, you have to return to training, to knowledge.
Reporters without borders has just published its classification on freedom of the press and affirms that economic weakness lasts press freedom from countries such as Spain. What do you think of the study? Should we reinvent the model? Is the subscription a good solution?
It was in the 19th century when advertising in the media appeared, before they worked by subscription, so we returned to the old. The citizen has to be aware that information is not free and journalistic work is complex. In many writings there is no research equipment or money and those crises are used by governments or large corporations. There is what they taught us in the career of reading between the lines. We have to look for important information and the reader has to know how to read it. Journalism is the responsibility of the journalist and the citizen to finance it, want to inform and know how to read.
How do you see the “tyranny of lies” in 10 years? Where are we going as “information society”?
There will be many tensions, for the citizen response and for the ferocity with which the big funds are accessing and occupying from matters to territories. What we need is for more people to become aware and denounce. The tyrant does not stop if he does not find resistance. Combating on social networks is super important. If we do not show, they will not come to save us. A citizen is someone who is attentive to the policies approved in the polis and participates, not that deposits a vote every four years. In Valencia, for example, there are a group of affected that go to plenary sessions to ask questions, to protest, complain and fight every day because they need explanations.