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EDITORIAL CODE. EL PAÍS
“El País is an independent newspaper with a clear
international vocation and a champion of pluralist
democracy based on liberal and social principles.
It is committed to the defense of the democratic
and legal order established by the Constitution.
Within this framework, it embraces all tendencies,
with the exception of those seeking to achieve
their ends through violence (…) the paper is dedicated
to providing daily, accurate, complete and
high quality information of interest to the public,
thus enabling the reader to comprehend reality
and form their own opinion of the world.
El País should be a liberal, independent, socially
responsible, national and European newspaper,
attentive to the changes taking place in Western
society.
Liberal, in my understanding, means two things: to
be willing to understand and listen to those holding
different views and to reject the idea that the end
justifies the means. In our times, liberal also implies
the belief in popular sovereignty, that is, in the
equal rights of each and every individual citizen.
We must, therefore, defend plural democracy,
exercised through universal suffrage, as the least
bad mechanism invented for the exercise of this
sovereignty. We must recognize the fundamental
rights of all people, while denouncing all types of
totalitarianism, as the inescapable consequence of
these beliefs.
El País must also be an independent newspaper,
not party to or mouthpiece for political, financial
or cultural organizations or groups, and, while it
defends free enterprise and depends on revenues
from its advertisers, the newspaper rejects all conditions
from economic pressure groups.
El País must also champion solidarity, as in today’s
world, at least in Western countries, every member
of society is a participant in the general welfare.
For this reason, it must defend the establishment
and proper administration of a Social Security system
and a fair and just sharing of wealth through
the proper imposition of taxation without inhibiting
individual growth. It must also defend the environment,
as the patrimony of all humanity; it must
defend civic virtues, and endeavor to combat all
corruption, fraud or abuse, and private and state
monopolies. The solidarity of all Citizens before
the law is also its mission, for which reason we
consider the independence of the judiciary to be
fundamental”.
José Ortega Spottorno
March 5, 1977
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