Crítica
- Today
- DETAINEES GO ON STRIKE IN TAMPICO
- GENERAL SANJURJO'S JOURNEY IS A SUCCESS
Crítica criticized the judiciary for giving greater attention to disclosures about defendants' private lives than to clarifying the crime itself. A dispatch from Tampico described hunger strikes by male and female detainees and a demand for the warden's removal. Another celebrated General Sanjurjo's Moroccan journey, reporting an enthusiastic reception, a gunboat's accompaniment and continuing surrenders inland. The newspaper also reported in a headline that a British ship had been destroyed by fire in Port-au-Prince.
Translation
Today
[?] Studying the case file in question leads to an unpleasant conclusion: the judiciary has been less concerned with clarifying the circumstances of the crime than with making public certain private matters concerning the defendants that have nothing to do with the conduct of the proceedings. What becomes of the dignity of a judiciary that intrudes into people's intimate lives and then behaves like any malicious gossip? [?]
DETAINEES GO ON STRIKE IN TAMPICO
[?] MEXICO, 28.—Dispatches received from Tampico report that several detainees who have gone on hunger strike in that city's jail are beginning to show signs of insanity. Besides the men, many women are on hunger strike in the correctional jail, demanding the warden's removal. [?]
GENERAL SANJURJO'S JOURNEY IS A SUCCESS
[?] TETUAN, 28.—The journey of General Sanjurjo, Spain's high commissioner in Morocco, has proved a genuine success, and the general received an enthusiastic welcome on arriving at the Rock of Gomera. The gunboat Dado is following him along the nearby coast, and the journey has proceeded without incident. Meanwhile, surrenders continue in large numbers in the interior. FIRE DESTROYED A BRITISH SHIP IN PORT-AU-PRINCE (Associated Press)
Context
Judicial dignity and the exposure of private lives
The editorial makes the handling of information a question of judicial legitimacy. Its accusation is specific: the authorities have given greater attention to publicizing the defendants' private affairs than to clarifying the crime, even though those affairs have no bearing on the proceedings. Relevance to the case is therefore the standard by which it judges disclosure. The closing comparison with a malicious gossip attacks the judiciary's claim to dignity: access to intimate information carries a responsibility to exercise restraint. The passage turns the investigation itself into a subject of scrutiny, asking whether judicial conduct deserves the authority it commands.
Privacy within sensational crime reporting
Crítica's objection gains significance from its own place in crime journalism. Research on the newspaper between 1922 and 1933 describes a popular mass-circulation evening paper that used sensationalist conventions, especially in crime reporting, and incorporated representations drawn from popular literary genres. The editorial's comparison between judicial officials and a malicious gossip belongs to that vivid register: it makes an institutional criticism through a familiar social figure. At the same time, its insistence on relevance to the proceedings draws a boundary within sensational coverage. Public interest in a crime, in this argument, does not justify judicial disclosure of unrelated intimate details.
Sanjurjo's journey during an unfinished campaign
Sanjurjo had participated in the Alhucemas landing in 1925, and Spanish naval historical research records that subsequent occupation and pacification operations continued into July 1927. His September 1926 journey therefore took place while military consolidation was still under way. That chronology gives particular weight to the dispatch's combination of an enthusiastic reception on the coast and continuing surrenders inland: the reported success of the journey accompanied an ongoing extension of control. By placing the high commissioner's office, the accompanying gunboat and those surrenders in a single brief account, the article presents civil administration and military authority together.
Original
Hoy
[?] Estudiando el sumario de marras, se llega a una conclusión desagradable: La Justicia no se ha preocupado tanto de poner en claro lo que se refiere al crimen como de hacer públicas ciertas cosas privadas de los procesados que nada tienen que ver con la substanciación del proceso. ¿ Adónde queda la majestad de esa justicia que entra en la vida íntima de las gentes y obra luego como cualquier divulgador maligno? [?]
EN TAMPICO LOS DETENIDOS HACEN HUELGA
[?] MEJICO, 28. - Despachos que se reciben de Tampico anuncian que varios detenidos que se han declarado en huelga de hambre en la cárcel de esa ciudad, comienzan a demostrar síntomas de locura. Aparte de los hombres, hay muchas mujeres que hacen huelga de hambre, en la cárcel correccional. exigiendo el retiro del alcaide. [?]
TIENE EXITO EL VIAJE DEL GRAL. SANJURJO
[?] TETUAN, 28 - El viaje del general Sanjurjo, alto comisario de España en Marruecos, ha resultado un verdadero éxito, y el general ha sido entusiastamente recibido al llegar al peñón de la Gomera. El cañonero Dado le sigue por las costas cercanas y el viaje se ha realizado sin ningún incidente. En tanto, en el Interior siguen realizándose numerosas sumisiones. EL FUEGO DESTRUYO UN BARCO BRITANICO EN PUERTO PRINCIPE (Associated Press)
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