Pablo Motos has been a trending topic for three days. All last weekend. The topic has been discussed a lot and the question of whether or not the Equality campaign. Based on the presenter no longer matters. After Motos en el Hormiguero’s speech. All possible doubts about whether the announcement was based. Since the fact that someone I know was referred. Denotes a certain concern . Ana Bernal Triviño, professor of Communication Studies at the UOC, considers that Motos’ statement “can make us reflect a lot, first, the fact that it is a direct reference, and second, how not recognizing errors can turn against us.”
The Fariña case: from censoring a book to a global trending topic
Before Pablo Motos, this media top industry data earthquake occurred with the novel Fariña, Nacho Carretero’s book about Galician drug traffickers. In 2018, a judge ordered the seizure of the book at the request of José Alfredo Bea Gondar, former mayor of O Grove, a town in Pontevedra. The crime committed by the novel about the former mayor was an alleged violation of his right to honor . But the stubbornness of the judge and the former mayor had the opposite effect. The publisher denounced the act as a form of censorship and the book became a trending topic . Not only in Spain, but throughout the world. He even appeared on Moments , a kind of Twitter blog that compiles the week’s most important tweets.
The addiction to the forbidden
But as Silvia Martínez, professor of Communication B2C Fax Studies at the UOC , recalls, the case of Pablo Motos, Fariña or even the rapper Valtònyc , another example of the national Streisand effect, were not the first, nor the last to happen. “The Streisand effect was not born with Twitter, it is true that it has intensified with the arrival of the networks, because with them, everything is more complicated to keep quiet or hide, but there have been more examples of the Streisand effect ,” explains Martínez . In his opinion, the Streisand effect draws a lot from the curiosity of human beings and their need to know what they want to hide from them. In fact, History is full of banned books that have ended up becoming classics.
