Responsible people of the magazine on October 2, 2020 Adelaide Review They published the word that no newsroom on the planet would want to write, first on X and then on Twitter: “Bye”. After nearly 40 years and 488 issues, the Australian cultural magazine had to say goodbye to its readers as it could not cope with the changes in the publishing industry and the challenges brought by the pandemic. As a final touch, director Amanda Pepe wrote a letter with nostalgic overtones, which still appears as the last tweet on the profile today. Adelaide Review. There at X the magazine has its own distinctive tombstone: “Goodbye Adelaide Review 1984-2020”.

four years later Adelaide Review It streams on the website at a good speed. But the Australian cultural information that was fairly well covered at the time has been replaced by quite different content: surveys of voting intentions and seat distribution in Catalonia, material that is fairly banned in Spain at this point in the electoral calendar. The real question is: What happened? Adelaide?

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“Voting is prohibited”. To understand the peculiar situation of the Australian cultural magazine, it is better to start at the end; Just a few days ago, on Monday, May 6, Spanish Newspaper He published an article titled “Poll banned: ‘Adelaide Review’ to publish daily poll in Australia on elections in Catalonia”. The same or very similar news can be read, for example, in other Spanish newspapers. Catalan Newspaper or more recently Galicia Post. All three media belong to the same editorial group.

The fact that the three of them talked about “forbidden survey” or “forbidden survey” is neither a coincidence nor a strategy. clickbait. Spanish electoral law prevents the distribution of election polls at the final stage of campaigns: studies on voting intention, a period activated in the Catalan elections at midnight on Tuesday, five days before the ballot box appointment. At least in the Spanish press. Another thing, of course, is Aussie.

“Keep the pulse on the last stretch”. Inside Newspaper It was announced that the magazine’s website in the city of Adelaide, approximately 16,200 kilometers away from Barcelona, ​​”keeps its finger on the pulse of the last chapter” of 12-M and will be responsible for publishing a news story. tracing The selection will be updated regularly every 24 hours. And he will do so until almost the last minute before the polls open on Saturday.

The surveys will be conducted by Barcelona-based Gabinet d’Estudis Socials i Opinió Pública (GESOP). To develop a “portrait” of voting intent, tracing It will be supplemented by around 300 or 400 daily phone calls until the number reaches 3,000 on the eve of election day. Therefore, two questions arise: What is it? Adelaide Review? So, where does this interest and effort in publishing election statistics come from in Spain, which is vetoed by the law here?

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A resurrected magazine. When consulting the website Adelaide Review The first surprise appears. Website – same as the one linking to Newspaper in history – inactive, caput. The last thing seen inside is “Farewell to ‘The Adelaide Review’ 1984-2020”, a nostalgic eulogistic text written by its director to bid farewell to its readers in the Australian state in 2020.

A quick look at its different sections reveals the same idea: its most recent texts were published in 2020; Moreover, in the “news” section, the last news before the farewell letter is about a plan published almost four years ago. if you consult Your profile on Xthree quarters are the same: The last tweet was sent on October 2, 2020. This account hasn’t posted anything since.

What about surveys? They are there but can be consulted through a specific section. At this link, for example, you can read an election chronology on the Australian website, which includes the magazine’s design, fonts and styles, as well as graphs of seat distribution and voting intention (albeit in Spanish). The article was published this Wednesday, when election polls were no longer allowed to be published in Spain. If you type surveys.adelaidereview.com.au/, without further ado, the link will automatically redirect to: Catalan Newspaper This weekend I am openly dedicated to the Catalan elections.

Cover of ‘The Adelaide Review’ website with farewell article published in 2020.

connection with spain. Many media outlets inside and outside Spain have already investigated the connection between the former Australian cultural magazine and Spanish election information. After all, this is not the first time Adelaide Review Surprises with dates and graphs on voting intentions in Spain, information revealed in the final stages of election campaigns.

He did this in the 2023 municipal and general elections. Days before 23-J, David Washington from Australian media InDaily, a journalist also dedicated to reporting on Adelaide, published an article in which he declared that the place had a “European owner”. the defunct cultural magazine was using it to “circumvent strict election laws” in Spain. And it pointed to a specific origin.

focus more. “Adelaide ReviewOwned by Barcelona businessman and newspaper editor Javier Moll, it published its last edition in October 2020 but the website has gained a new use for its Spanish counterparts. […] -wrote Washington-. The newspaper will be published in conjunction with the Spanish general elections to be held on July 23. Newspaper you are linking to hidden pages on the website Adelaide Review […]. Newspaper pages use it for the second time this year by Adelaide Review to bypass the ban. in may [de 2023] “Surveys regarding municipal elections within the prohibited period have been published.”

Same ports Diari La Veu, a year ago, the group led by Moll, owner of Editor Prensa Ibérica (EPI), Newspaperhe also owned Intertrade Global. Adelaide Review. Documents collected on the website of the Spanish Australia Council Foundation, EPI and Global Intertrade Pty Ltd. It shows that there is at least one connection between

The interesting “rebirth” of the Adelaide magazine was also echoed by the ABC News network, which in 2023 reminded it that the magazine was dead since 2020 and dedicated an article emphasizing the same idea: “According to files from the State Library of South Australia, Javier Moll, The Adelaide Review in 2003 He bought it.”

Neither new nor unknown. And this is not the first time Adelaide Review It surprisingly sneaks into Spanish election history, and Australian media are not the first to publish secret polls. as you remember NewspaperLong before that, another media, located outside the borders of Spain, although closer, did this: Periodic d’AndorraHe did something similar in the 2008 general election and other events held since then.

I would continue to do this even today against 12-M. “This method of circumventing election laws has been used for years Newspaper but in the past he used a website in the small landlocked principality of Andorra, located between Spain and France in the Pyrenees,” says Washington. In the Catalan newspaper you can see the news from 2019, which fully reflects the polls of the Andorran media. That year the Editor Prensa Ibérica was in charge until then acquired Grupo Zeta. Newspaper and other tools.

Origin: A standard from the 80s. The key to understanding why both Andorran and Australian media were used to spread the polls must be found in a decades-old text: the General Electoral Regime Organic Law, in force since 1985. LOREG states in article 69.7: “The publication, distribution or reproduction of election polls by any means of communication is prohibited within five days before the vote.”

In the 12-A calendar, this period starts early on Tuesday morning. The measure was taken to prevent the polls from having a negative impact on voters and to prevent voters from going to the polls with the impression that the results are already known, which could, for example, affect abstention. It is the parties that can continue to hire demoscopic companies to obtain new information, leading some media to talk about differences between parties and voters and directly about “outdated legislation”.

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