Event 30
Juan Soto Ivars and Teodoro León Gross
News Fires: The Construction of Manipulated Narratives about Disasters (A Summer of Fires)
Venue: Torreón de Lozoya
Political information practices contaminate all uses of journalism in times of populism and polarization.
Natural disasters have become windows of opportunity, or opportunism, as has happened with the fires of the summer of 2025, as with the Dana disaster in Valencia months ago.
Electoral gains trump effective management, and the priority is the construction of news narratives that shape a social perception of reality tailored to ideological and partisan interests.
The the prestigious journalists and writers Teodoro León Gross and Juan Soto Ivars discuss this post-truth in its purest form.
Event in Spanish
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Co-organized with the Torreón de Lozoya Foundation of the Caja Segovia Foundation
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