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Essential interview published yesterday in the newspaper La Vanguardia Max Otte, which explains not mince the current state of journalism framed in an increasingly unjust and alienating

Max Otte, a prominent Democrat activist away from any radical position or disasters, responds forcefully and without prejudices to the questions posed by journalist Lluís Amiguet journalism, economy and crisis in an interview published yesterday in the newspaper La Vanguardia entitled We more misinformation than ever, and free! . The interview reveals the ideas without prejudice Max Otte, who already in 2006 predicted the subprime crisis .

German, 46, Max Otte campaigning in the Democrat party (CDU) that was commissioned to reorganize the Ministry of Economy. Also spent years dedicated to stock market investment, is not exactly a radical leftist, an anti nor a fan of conspiracy theories!. After his doctorate at Princeton and reorganize the research service of the German Economics Ministry, Otte achieved notoriety in 2006 to publish the book 'That is the crisis! " and prophesy the tsunami of subprime that we are still paying. now publishes "The crash of the information ', explaining the degradation of mass media (funny, just today while trash' Big Brother ' occupies the same television channel last week aired a good information , the late and missed CNN +) and at the invitation of The Foundation Consell de la Informació de Catalunya , anticipates a future that requires us to reset our democracy or underemployed probably resigned to finishing in a franchise ... INTERVIEW


"Today we have dozens of television channels, thousands of internet portals and dozens of thousands of blogs, but we are less informed than 30 years ago: more uninformed and therefore more controllable "WE HAVE SPENT

MASS MEDIA MASS MEDIA TO
" But mass does not mean quality. On the contrary: they have multiplied, but also depleted the contents. Most of the texts and images that we use, for free, on all types of screens or add anything nor reliable. They are a chaotic cacophony of messages bland and banal "

CAN NOT BELIEVE THAT'S ALL, AS BEFORE?
" Before reference information companies serving information-hierarchical interpretation by journalists serious, well-paid and relatively independent "

What ARE NO LONGER THOSE JOURNALISTS?
" They are threatened by the separation of advertising and content. This union was founded on the quality press, but today people do not see ads, but seeking what to buy directly online and, therefore, advertising, previously funded the accurate information and do not invest in reference mass media. Serious newspapers are more necessary than ever
, but are no longer profitable, "

ALL THERE ...
" This degradation is the dominant trend in the U.S., where I Ph.D. in Princeton, and in Germany , Ministry of Economy which helped to restructure. And throughout the world "

WHAT FUTURE AWAITS YOU?
" Journalists are being replaced by a new wave of mere transmission of content taught to simply get more clicks on the news. No longer content to interpret and rank by importance or interest, but only by their immediate audience. That way we misinform "

HOPE WE HAVE TIME TO RETIREES ...
" It's not just a corporate problem of journalists. The sinking of the information is part of the regression of the story: total capitalism takes us back to a neo-feudalism that concentrates power and wealth in few hands and condemns the rest to the misinformation, deseducación and, ultimately, servitude and poverty "

IS A CONSPIRACY?
" I do not believe in conspiracies. Is a logic of the capitalist jungle, which is imposed gradually and impoverishes first criterion, education and information of the middle classes, then limit your income. And that happens with the information, too, with education, public services and political representation. And its related business is franchised economy "

INCREASINGLY MORE FRANCHISES, BUT ...
" The Franchising is a deconstruction of the production process. The plant concentrates all power of decision and condemns the rest to run as robots work not requiring training. At McDonald's, a handful of directors decided at the plant to the size of the pickles to serve around the globe and thousands of employees in each restaurant franchisee have no room for learning or progress "

IS A MODEL
"It's the model. These employees do not need to be trained not to misinform, but frustrated by a life where they do not control nothing and learn nothing at work "BUT STILL


have democracy ..." Did not you see how resolved the crisis that I predicted? We have been blaming all of the abuses of spoilers and are paying their outrages with cuts in wages and utilities. And just look where former politicians in exchange for: the pay of the multinationals "

SPOKEN OF A NEW BANK REGULATION
" They have done the opposite, capitalism has been strengthened overall. It obeys the logic of the proposed measurable efficiency and condemn in advance any other intellectual consideration, humanistic or justice "

apocalyptic dreams and
MARXISTOIDE ..." For I am a Social and moderate. I note only the effect history: Capitalism move in total to a new feudalism that settles the rights of the middle classes. And the policy has been surrendered to that logic. When I was in the Ministry of Economy, a senior veteran explained to me how the presidents of multinational companies lined up to see the minister Erhard: the ministers are now lining up to beg favors bankers and corporate presidents! "

WHAT ABOUT THE MIDDLE CLASS Disinformation PART OF THAT PROCESS?
"is the consequence and in turn accelerates. You'll soon see how, once settled or reduced to the banality more or less profitable private media quality, media companies public will be branded as inefficient and outdated "

HAVE AT LEAST RETURN POLICY ...
" Some media survive by selling their independence to political partisanship increasingly brazen in exchange for subsidies and concessions. In turn, these politicians serve the new feudal lords of the banking and business, need to win elections not to send "

BUT IN THE END THE GOOD ALWAYS HAVE YOUR CONTENT READER, DO NOT YOU?
" They are disappearing : the uninformed reader ends up complying with the more superficial "