FC Barcelona is starting to get fed up. They have a problem with the control Real Madrid exerts over the media located in the capital that broadcast for all of Spain.
This is the case with the television broadcasts monopolized by Movistar and DAZN. Both platforms have comprehensive teams of narrators and analysts; Madridists, by the way.
Can Anyone Imagine Piqué Commenting on a Real Madrid Match on DAZN?
There are so many that sometimes they even place them to comment on Barça's matches. This is the case of Edu Aguirre: at night, a radical scourge of Barcelona fans on El Chiringuito; during the day, an objective and neutral interview/analysis for Movistar.
This is also the case with Guti. Can anyone imagine Piqué as a TV analyst or judging Real Madrid's sins?
Well, that's happening with Guti and Barça. However, in Madrid, it all seems very normal to them.
There are more, many more. Valdano, Morientes, Álvaro Benito... whose Barça counterpart is Gaizka Mendieta or Eneko, as Abelardo was before.
Then there are the journalists, all raised and made men in the capital and under Real Madrid's shadow.
Very objective, but trained in the Madridist culture and in the shadow of the superior being, Florentino Pérez, who is above everything.
A Madrid-Barça without Barça Commentators. Are They Annoying?
This is what Joan Laporta calls "sociological Madridism," media sector. There's no need to pay any Negreira. The control of the narrative, it is enough to convert the world to the true Madridist faith.
The fact that Sunday's Barça-Real Madrid was commented on by Carlos Martínez, Álvaro Benito, Mateu Lahoz, and Maldini is very telling. Wasn't there anyone from Barça, even just to pretend? Was it necessary for all of them to be from Real Madrid?
Maybe they do it for our own good, to instruct us and place us in the Madridist narrative. The worst part is they try to act neutral, but their bias is quickly revealed.
Movistar's broadcast of the classic from Arabia has sparked outrage among Barcelona fans. Social media is loaded with complaints and vicarious embarrassment.