Información, ética y posverdad

Resum

Information continues to be, after many hazardous centuries, the key idea that has given rise to the journalistic profession. Its raison d'être is to be able to serve as a link between outer reality and the knowledge of citizens. After many years, and as far as Spain is concerned, information is going through moments of strong confusion in its three components: journalists, the media businessmen and the public general. In the opinion of many professionals, this confusion might be leading to an eventual disappearance of the profession as it has been understood for many decades or, at least, to a distortion of its aims as they have been proclaimed since the beginning of its existence