“Power increasingly harasses the press”

Quiros begins his thinking by appealing to the foundations of journalism itself, which “consists in saying what someone does not want to know,” because the rest, he defends, is “propaganda”: ​​“When newspapers are full of things that carry no danger, it is not journalism, or at most, secondary journalism.” As he said, the foundations of the profession lie, specifically: In “disturbing force” and maintaining the “natural impulse” The profession is an instrument of control and control over those in power.

Specifically, along these lines, the ABC director advocated that, in many cases, Misinformation comes “from different sources of power.”It is usually political, managing many resources and budgets. He believes it is more than just a tool of the press, it is a tool “against the press.” To illustrate this, he took as an example what happened last year in Valencia, with the Dana tragedy: “The vast majority of hoaxes do not reach the media.”

Indeed, in this sense, Kyros also warned of growing social and political polarization, which, as he put it, “Prefers fake news and populism.”At the same time, it “delegitimizes journalism.” Despite working in the media for decades, the ABC director believes those in power now put more pressure on the media: “The press is increasingly harassed by the authorities.”

During his conference, he stressed the need for the media not to surrender to increasingly increasing political pressures: “The press has made mistakes and will continue to make them, but it has always been that way.” The mistakes made by an overly complacent journalist are even more serious One of those that the journalist criticizes excessively.

Artificial intelligence boost

The ABC director recognized that the arrival of the Internet in his day “changed everyone’s lives.” As well as to the media, which he stressed “still dominates the information space on the Internet.” He explained that the job had changed “irreversibly.” Newspapers ‘had to adapt’ In a context where anyone “with a mobile phone can report or pretend to report.”

For all this, he believes that one of the media’s great tasks, in the midst of the vortex of content and misinformation, is not to tell people what they don’t know, as was the case in the past, but rather to “tell people what they don’t know.” Whether what they already know is true or not». He said that a journalist should always doubt. Today, more than ever. He remembered a phrase that perfectly embodied this: “If your mother tells you she loves you, prove it.”

Regarding the AI ​​explosion, Quiros defended that it will not eliminate jobs: “Good deeds do not remove it.”. Even more damaging is that he believes his appearance “changes the rules of the game” and will therefore “allow the media to play something else.”