Gordon Fairclough He is the World Coverage Chief of the newspaper ‘The Wall Street Journal’ (WSJ), the person who directs all international information coverage from outside the United States, specifically from London, since 2017, after being editor of Politics and Economics for Europe, the Middle East and Africa, a position he held after being head of the Asia department and being part of a team of reporters that won a Pulitzer Prize for international reporting in 2007 for its reporting on China.
Fairclough was sent to Spain, he interviewed Pedro Sanchez at the Moncloa Palace and published the dialogue they had in the newspaper this Thursday, March 26. The WSJ is owned by Dow Jones & Company, which is a subsidiary of News Corp. This media conglomerate is controlled by the family of Rupert Murdochmaking it one of the largest media owners in the world (Fox Corporation, HarperCollins, ‘The New York Post’, ‘The Sunday Times’ (United Kingdom) and Sky News (Australia).
José María Aznarafter being part of the trio from the Azores that launched the Iraq war in 2003, began to collaborate, as a member of the Council of State in Spain, with News Internacional, without reporting on said activity. He left his position and became part of the board of directors of News Internacional. His current salary is 341,565 dollars per year or 294,000 euros.
The WSJ has not accused, at least so far, Pedro Sanchez of betraying allies or supporting the regime of the Ayatollahs of Iran, Aznar and Feijóo ‘dixit’, nor of being against “the Normandy landings”, according to the PP spokesperson, Ester Muñoz.
“Good allies are like good friends. We tell each other the truth no matter what happens,” he says. Sánchez a Fairclough. “And this war in Iran is a big mistake for the world and therefore for the United States.”
The person in charge of the WSJ points out that Spain’s position has caused many North Americans to even decide to establish their residence in Spain. “We have a temporary disagreement, but I believe that the relationship between the US and Spain is stronger than ever. Americans, in fact, love Spain,” he noted. Sánchez.
One of the journalists who usually interviews Sánchez It’s the British-Iranian Christiane Amanpourinternational anchor for CNN. Already on the occasion of the position of the Spanish Government regarding the genocide in Gaza, it gave space to Sánchez from the United Nations assembly in New York. It would be interesting to know what Feijóo would say in an interview, given that the PP supports Netanyahu in the massacre of the Palestinian people, and that already on March 1, hours after the attack by the US and Israel on Iran the day before, February 28, the leader of the PP distributed a statement in which he called to defend without nuances the liberal democracies – supposedly the US and Israel – at war. At the same time, he has distinguished himself by denouncing Sánchez due to the Spanish Government’s rejection of the US using the military bases of Morón and Rota to attack Iran. According to Feijóo, Sánchez It has thus proven not to be a reliable ally, that is, it should have authorized those bases to operate for the Iran war.
What the body asked of Feijóo -support the US and Israel- was written on March 1. Now, warning that the warlike ardor of those days will lead the PP to disaster – the majority of the Spanish people reject the war in Iran – Feijóo tries to refine its position with a no to war and no to Sánchez. “In a little while, you will no longer see me, and shortly after, you will see me again,” and the disciples respond: “Master, we love you more every day because of how well you explain yourself,” Eugenio ‘dixit’ in the eighties.
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