Well, this is funny. Adela Micha is a Mexican news anchor, who according to her Wikipedia page charges 15000 USD for a 45-minute talk on ethics. Sounds steep, I guess, but maybe she’s particularly ethical and gives very sagely advice.

Then again, maybe not. I was watching the news on Televisa, Micha’s home network, the other day, and when they took a commercial break in the news, suddenly the screen read “Newsflash with Adela Micha”, and I was treated to a commercial featuring her. A commercial, styled as a news broadcast, in the commercial break of a news broadcast, featuring a newscaster of the same channel as a spokesperson? Yeah, no conflict of interest or confusing the consumer there.

Ethics, my ass. In any country with a functional media, instead of lapdogs of the government and commercial interests, a journalist would be thrown out for even trying something like that. Here in Mexico, it’s just to be expected.

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