The journalist was repeatedly offered evidence to prove that what she wanted to spread at all costs was just baseless defamation. With one of the victims next door, the one who denounced the most repeat harasser in Spanish universities preferred to omit her voice, like that of so many other victims of sexual harassment in universities, assuming that if she did not hide her experiences, she would not gain the prominence she was aiming for.
In this way, the journalist decided to publish one of the worst attacks that has been made against the only group that has broken the silence against gender violence at university while hiding a student’s campaign that would have marked a turning point in the transformation of universities into safe spaces for all. These are consequences of yellow journalism that are already beginning to be transformed with the incorporation of laws such as the one passed by a parliament in Europe to put an end to isolating gender violence.
Coordinadora del Metoo University