The news came this week : Spain has created an award for a journalist speaking well of the corrupt, authoritarian and imperialist kingdom. An award that British journalist Graham Keeley says: "an award that I and any other self-respecting correspondent would prefer not to win".
The problem is that some of them are already doing that kind of writing, and the competition between those for the prize could be brisk. On the other hand, there are already plenty of benefits for the Madrid-based journalists who bask in the favor of the established powers. If the Spanish state isn't ashamed to offer such a prize openly (as with their bribery of EU officials with awards), what might they already have been doing behind the scenes? Might it not explain tame foreign journalists who publish puzzlingly slanted articles in Madrid's favor?
Despite the generous €12,000 prize money the award is a shame. Spain’s foreign ministry is putting up the cash for the foreign correspondent who pens the best article “about the role of Spain abroad”. The Palacio de Viana prize, named after the 15th-century palace where the Spanish foreign minister, Alfonso Dastis, has his office, is one of a series awards for promoting the damaged image of a Middle Age kingdom, with a king and a government speaker wich is a "Baron", with police beating people, inquisition courts jailing rappers, democratic politicians, and peaceful activists...
The problem is that some of them are already doing that kind of writing, and the competition between those for the prize could be brisk. On the other hand, there are already plenty of benefits for the Madrid-based journalists who bask in the favor of the established powers. If the Spanish state isn't ashamed to offer such a prize openly (as with their bribery of EU officials with awards), what might they already have been doing behind the scenes? Might it not explain tame foreign journalists who publish puzzlingly slanted articles in Madrid's favor?
Despite the generous €12,000 prize money the award is a shame. Spain’s foreign ministry is putting up the cash for the foreign correspondent who pens the best article “about the role of Spain abroad”. The Palacio de Viana prize, named after the 15th-century palace where the Spanish foreign minister, Alfonso Dastis, has his office, is one of a series awards for promoting the damaged image of a Middle Age kingdom, with a king and a government speaker wich is a "Baron", with police beating people, inquisition courts jailing rappers, democratic politicians, and peaceful activists...
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