Televisa Leaks: Democracy as a great business

– Democracy is a big business, “said the then young Azcárraga Jean, recent heir to Televisa. It was the year of 2004.

Televisa was no longer PRI as it was in the twentieth century. Now I received money from the PAN government. That openly.

In undercover, he received payments from any politician for interviews or mentions – or campaigns in healing his image – or to hit that of his adversaries.

The same did TV Azteca.

Then a live interview cost 1 million pesos; A mention 300 thousand pesos.

Besides, Televisa and TV Azteca They had (and have) other businesses outside the “information” and to favor them I exchange propaganda – and to “discount the rivals, we give them.” The expression is one of Televisa’s “informative” stars.

Indeed, neoliberalism made democracy a huge business.

In the second decade of the 21st century, commercial TV finds its nemesis. Social networks.

One hundred opinion programs appear on YouTube and other platforms. They are programs without money for production and without their own information, but in return they have the virtue of lacking owners and cash register. They work for the love of freedom of expression.

And the most intelligent audiences emigrate to those new free programs.

In 2018, López Obrador Win the elections without having stepped on Televisa or TV Azteca more than twice in your campaign and thanks to the networks:

“The blessed social networks,” they call them.

The reaction of commercial television stations is to enter the network business: they create their media, which disguise free and independent, and are so or more beaten than the thousand and a really independent programs of the networks.

That is Metricsthe False news Factory for Political Buy founded within Televisa in 2018 – and whose existence has revealed Carmen Aristegui this week.

Metrics is commanded by one of the two deputy director of Televisa, Javier Tejo; It has its physical headquarters on Televisa Chapultepec; Its employees are paid by Televisa; And half of their black campaigns have Televisa as beneficiary.

Will Televisa recognize Metrics as your own?

To this day, no. But declare what you declare, it will be difficult to believe that Metrics is not his secret and guerrilla arm.

The same doubts stalk Latinus, who conduct two former collaborators of Televisa, Carlos Loret and Brozo, and who has never declared their forms of financing. What is certain is that their luxurious production, its various reporters and their expensive analysts are not paid for the views on YouTube. Any abacus accountant knows that the accounts do not come out.

On the other hand, the digital magazine etc., a lumpen version of Latinus, dedicated to hitting with extravagant lies to figures on the left, is driven by Televisa, as checked in documents appeared on Televisa Leaks.

Oh yes, democracy is still a great business. Today among the candidates for any power post a price sheet circulates. Interviews and mentions are sold in private spaces of Televisa and TV Azteca, also in programs of other television and commercial broadcasters, also in opinion articles, and also in “independent” programs of the networks.

Imagine the reader, the reader, to a candidate for the Supreme Court of Justice, ojando that transa tab. Well, I had to see that portrait of the corruption of democracy two weeks ago.

More of that tab in an upcoming installment, for now I close with a question.

How to clean the public conversation dominated today by mercenaries?

It is hateful to imagine a government control.

So who should inform us of the hidden crimes of the “informants”?

jf