Over the past few months, The Listening Post has examined the populist, right wing political movements on the rise – like the Front National in France – and the kind of news coverage they’ve attracted. This week, LP looks at left-wing political party Podemos’ issues with the mainstream media there.
Podemos is Spanish for ‘We can’. The party is barely three years old and it’s already Spain’s third largest. Its leader, Pablo Iglesias, doesn’t look like your typical Spanish politician. And Podemos’ anti-austerity/anti-establishment platform was destined to get a hostile reception from mainstream media outlets, most of which lean to the right.
What Podemos did not see coming was the treatment it gets from El Pais, a centre-left paper that is the most-widely circulated in Spain.
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