In a context in which Spain's reputational and institutional deterioration is entering a worrying phase, we are faced with a media landscape that fosters the «penalty of the Telediario».». For the reader who is unfamiliar with the term, we refer to an episode that usually involves the detention of famous personalities, usually politicians or millionaires, accused of serious corruption offences in operations that usually begin with the arrest of the person concerned and are broadcast live on radio, television and social networks, which have sometimes been summoned to the scene of the crime by the judicial police themselves.
It is the beginning of a ordeal that often lasts for years and often destroys the life of the affected person and their entire family and social environment. Many have ended up acquitted after the corresponding oral trial, or even acquitted by the examining magistrate. We have seen two clear cases of this type in recent days: Jonathan Andic, The police, with half a dozen agents of the Mossos d'Esquadra, walked in handcuffs from the courthouse to the dungeons and vice versa.