Etiqueta: journalism

  • El País and Chávez: Why verification matters

      The publication by the Spanish newspaper El País of a fake picture of Hugo Chavez on its frontpage might become one of the most embarrasing chapters of media mistakes in the last years. Specially because the picture was previously rejected by El País main competitor: El Mundo. El País published a rectification already. It […]

  • Camisetas: from Eric Berne to Sixth Sense

    One of the best subjects I took at Complutense University while studying Journalism was Information Theory, by Prof. Felicísimo Valbuena. By showing us movie after movie in the classroom, he taught us how much truth there is in cinema screenplays and how many inner scripts there are in real life. Not that it had a […]