I am reading the news on the digital media, specially regarding to the judgement regarding the demand that Mr. Gallardón (current mayor of Madrid) has put against the journalist Federico Jiménez Losantos, for Mr. Gallardón’s declarations on the need not to investigate more the terrorist attacks on 11-March in Madrid.
The conclusion I am obtaining is that there was a clear defecation (let me call it this way) of the politics of the Popular Party, PP. A clear perfidy for those media (digital, newspapers, radios and TVs) that help them on …

In Spain, there is an entity (a kind of an association) called the SGAE (General Society of Authors and Publishers - Editors). Among its attributions, the Spanish Administration gave it the right to collect the so called “digital canon”.
But, what is the digital canon? According to the platform Todos contra el canon (All against the canon, www.todoscontraelcanon.es, sorry but it is in Spanish), the canon is an amount of money, similar to a tax, that is applicable to all the electronic devices. Legally, is justified as “a compensation in exchange for …

I am looking to the web sites of the digital newspapers, and seeing the same picture on all. The picture shows the Spanish president Mr. Zapatero with Juan José Cortés and Irene Suárez, the parents of Mari Luz, the girl murdered in Huelva for a pedophile man.
This murder is an example of the unefficiencies of the Spanish administration. Lost in a tangle of bureaucracy and entities, the assassin was condemned. But this sentence was not executed for laziness of for lack of professionalism, either of the judge or of the secretaty of …

Guess who is wrong on these lists.
1.- (A) George Bush (B) Angela Merkel (C) José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero
2.- (A) Nicolas Sarkozy (B) José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero (C) Silvio Berlusconi
3.- (A) Tony Blair (B) John Howard (C) José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero
4.- (A) José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero (B) Silvio Berlusconi (C) Angela Merkel
Answers:
1.- (C) Mr. Zapatero is wrong. He is the only one who took political profit of a terrorist attack
2.- (B) Mr. Zapatero is wrong. He is the only one with whom Mr. Bush did not like to meet to.
3.- (C) Mr. …

Everytime I have the opportunity to watch British TV, I am very pleased to hear the care the journalists have to choose and manage the words. They are very concerned about using the rights words on the right context.
But this is not the way when it comes to talk about one of the biggest Spanish problems: ETA. Everytime I listen to the news, and they talk about ETA, they use the wrong words: Basque separatist group. This is not true at all. What ETA is is a terrorist band, a …