Now that the government is going to change in my country, and that, according to some vulgar hints, they are going to change upside down the informative services at the public radio/tv, Radiotelevisión Española (RTVE), I'd like to express my admiration for the work they have been doing during the last 8 years.
Zapatero has done things right and wrong, as any other president, but one thing he did right is to give full independence to the informative services at RTVE. They have been a model of balanced, critic journalism, where you could see accurate, really objective information, and in some programs, a mixture of journalists from left and right. It was a huge contrast with respect to the same information in the years 1996-2004, when the right party was in the government in Spain. And sadly, I smell we will see the same kind of biased, pro-right information in the coming months, returning to RTVE and demonstrating that many things did not change in the Partido Popular, despite the clear change in leadership.
Hopefully I will be proven wrong... but something tell me it won't be the case.

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