Madrid, January 23 (Elespañol.com).- The country has fired Fernando Savater. The philosopher had been writing uninterruptedly on the pages of Grupo Prisa’s newspaper for 47 years, practically since its founding. The reason for his departure has been the criticisms he has made of the medium in his latest book: Governed meat (Ariel) and that have been amplified in different interviews.
Sources of The country They have declined to comment to EL ESPAÑOL, although apparently it was the director of the newspaper herself, Pepa Well, who informed him that the newspaper was terminating his services as of this Monday. The reason? In the house they have not liked the comments made against the medium.
The relations between Fernando Savater and the management of The country They had been quite deteriorated for months. In fact, the ideological distance between the parties was increasingly greater despite the fact that the philosopher signed a column every Saturday in his pages.
Spokesman for the worst Government
In Governed meat Savater explains the political journey taken throughout his life. According to an excerpt published by The confidentialSavater considers that “if you are progressive, center-left, with your own virtues and defects, The country He went on to become spokesperson for the worst government of democracy”.
That is what, in his opinion, “undermined” the prestige of the newspaper, which went from being “the leading newspaper to becoming a laughable epitome of the press at the service of politics.” […] but little by little we have. come to the point where the joke is The country and their sectarian nonsense,” he continues.
Fernando Savater chats with EL ESPAÑOL in the office of his second home, in Madrid. Javier Carbajal
Savater concludes his first criticism of the newspaper that Pepa Bueno now runs by pointing out that “today almost no one shares that placid progressive belief because with that exclusive diet you will limp informatively on one foot and probably on both.”
He looks back to highlight that “in the first years my newspaper maintained its usual social democratic line, supporting the socialists – remember: those socialists! -, distrusting the neo-communists a little less than it should and opposing, although without too much acrimony, the separatists. . But there was a turnaround in the Socialist Party and finally the worst thing that has happened to it in its entire long and controversial history occurred: found himself subjected to the caudillo leadership of Pedro Sánchez”, he continues to explain in his book.
For Savater “in the evident decline of The country Various factors intervene. The first of them is the same one that has gnawed at the PSOE in its best essences: the ideological colonization by the PSC, which is a carcinogenic element wherever it is implanted.
And continues: “The opinions of the so-called global newspaper are guided on national issues by a particularly narrow cafila: Jordi Amat, Jordi Gracia, Xavier Vidal-Folch, Josep Ramoneda and otherswhose primary objective is to demonstrate that only the most reactionary elements oppose the nationalisms peripherals”.
female invasion
But he goes one step further, ensuring that another of the elements that “makes this once prestigious newspaper worse is an unfortunate female invasion«.
The philosopher says that in “a moment like the current one, when the best columnists in all media are women and some of us hardly read anything else anymore.” (Rosa Belmonte, Emilia Landaluce, Irene González, Lupe Sánchez, Rebeca Argudo, Leyre Iglesias, etc., so as not to go back to the teaching of Cayetana Álvarez de Toledo), in The country we got the least brilliant lot: both the domestic ones and the imported ones, except for the honorable and rare exceptions of rigor, are as sectarian and boring as the men with whom they rub shoulders. “There is no way to turn the game around.”
Regarding that ideological journey that he talks about in the book, and in which the criticism of his now former newspaper is only one part, Savater explained in a recent interview with EL ESPAÑOL that he does and says what he thinks needs to be said. «Mwait my freedom of expression, write in The country or anywhere else; and, of course, being called a facha doesn’t matter to me at all,” he answered when asked about his vote for Isabel Díaz Ayuso in the 2021 elections.
Regarding the last general elections, those of last July, the writer indicated that “there was a perfectly legitimate and democratic opportunity to give Sánchez a good blow and his henchmen, to change the Government and the direction of the country.
However, he lamented, “it could not be done because Sánchez’s supporters, despite everything they knew about him, or perhaps, because of what they knew about him, voted for him.”
Savater is one of the best-known thinkers in Spanish society. Professor since the early 70s at different universities, one of his best-known works is Ethics for Amateur, an essay published in 1991 that deals with the ethics, morals and philosophy of life throughout history.
