What Happened to the Media and the Press?
Spanish media seems rather dead to us, just like German media. It goes out of its way to protect those whom it was entrusted to expose, scrutinise, interrogate etc.
A decade ago when the EPO hired many lawyers in several firms to terrorise me (after I had exposed EPO corruption) there were many publications across Europe willing to 1) write about the corruption shown and 2) write about the EPO's SLAPPs. Even Public Eye (UK) covered that. It covered that several times.
Last year, about a month before Christmas, the main boss at The Register MS (before MS was put in charge, in effect replacing him!) told me that the main person covering EPO abuses at The Register MS had left his job and moved back to the UK with his family. He said it was a career change for him. So it sounded like he had given up.
After all those years it seems like the very same people who a decade ago blasted the EPO are "no more" (not active, not attentive and so on). So it sort of feels like Europe is becoming another "back alley" of Moscow. Journalism "exists"... but there are tyrants we're not "meant" to criticise, for that may lead to complications, problems, trouble etc.
They say that you need to make the world what you want it to become rather than be passive or wait for others to do that for you. In several languages there are wise sayings or proverbs to that effect, but the universal take-home message is: be proactive, be active. Don't rely on other people. One variant of that is, "be the change".
We've just expressed sincere gratitude to whistleblowers of the European Patent Office (EPO) and welcome more of them to reach out to us. We have the capacity to tell personal stories while doing our best to protect identities and avert reprisals. █