Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (EFE)
In the presentation of his report on the occasion of the 82nd General Assembly of the Federation, which is held in Arrecife (Lanzarote), Miguel Ángel Noceda, has considered that the democratic system is “dangerously hit by political polarization and populism and channeled by social networks”, according to a statement sent by FAPE.
Noceda has assured that the federation that he presides continues “in the first line of defense of the rights of journalists, whose principle and end are freedom of expression, the free exercise of journalism, the right to information and the need to put an end to job and salary precariousness, for more women to occupy management positions in the media and for companies to take serious measures to deal with ‘online’ harassment, which particularly affects journalists”.
He has also referred to the FAPE’s constant denunciation of events such as the persistence of the gag law, the “press conferences without questions”, the accusations, insults and attacks on journalists, the requirement of judges and prosecutors to reveal their sources , the pressures of the powers that be, the lawsuits to stop journalistic investigations or the pressure campaigns orchestrated from social networks.
“In the face of intolerable actions, we must respond with our best weapon, journalism with capital letters”, stated the president of FAPE, who has advocated for “true, understood, contrasted and contextualized information; rigorous and adjusted to the deontological codes of the profession and refractory to hoaxes and post-truth that circulate through social networks and that, for the most part, respond to premeditated strategies”.
Noceda has stressed that “social networks are not journalism” and that “disinformation has become, together with job insecurity, one of the evils that journalism faces in these times.” EFE
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