Ramírez y El Mundo, punto final

Creo que aquí, en este artículo que Pedro J. Ramírez publica en The New York Times, está la clave de su despedida de El Mundo de Madrid, en la que le echa la culpa a Mariano Rajoy.

Previous prime ministers, including José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, Mr. Rajoy’s Socialist predecessor, accepted press criticism. But everything changed when Mr. Rajoy, the leader of the conservative People’s Party, came to power. Though we had endorsed him on three occasions, once in power he exhibited hostility toward uncomfortable truths and indifference to public opinion. As elsewhere, journalism in Spain has been under economic pressure. 

Newspaper advertising fell by two-thirds in six years, and print circulation by more than one-third. El Mundo is a leading newspaper online in Spain, with 7.2 million monthly unique users of its main website and 127,000 digital subscribers, but online revenues are not enough to balance the books. So the political pressure from the government, and its effect on advertising, came at a vulnerable moment.

Mirelo así: A Pedrojota le pasó lo que le pasa a los que toman copas de más con el poder: al final el poder te descarta. Punto. Y además perdía dinero. Punto final.