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Martxel Toledo Garmendia 26-06-2018, BERRIA. Abstract: Calling the current football world cup to mind, Martxel Toledo points out at the broad media coverage and the bizarre evolution that competition has been having lately in our country: both the Spanish and French national soccer teams used to have but a few followers in the past amongst us, but that trend is changing. According...

Gerardo Luzuriaga 18-05-2018, BERRIA. Abstract: Gerardo Luzuriaga is an archivist, a pundit with a long career in his job. He is a professional who has years long advocated for a National Library of the Basque Country. “In 1998, the members of the Joana Albret Bibliotekonomia Mintegia (Librarianship Seminar Joana Albret) started making a case for the establishment of a National Library of...

Estitxu Garai Artetxe 29-04-2018, ARGIA. Abstract: In the same way as small but persistent water drops have the power to erode solid rocks, the models and references that the mass media expose us to, also have the power to erode our collective identity. The author of the article reveals how Spanish references broadcast by such media have an influence on us. EUSKAL TELEBISTA’s...

Andoni Canales 22-02-2018, BERRIA. Abstract: The author criticizes a perverse attack against the Basque language which happened last week at the Idiazabal football stadium in the Basque country. The attack consisted in a Spanish football referee vehemently banning players from talking in Basque to each other (see section DISLIKES). Likewise, he deplores the attitude of the public Basque TV (ETB-2, a channel broadcasting...

Jose Mari Pastor 20-01-2018, BERRIA. Abstract: The article’s author regrets that Jose Luis Alvarez Enparantza, a.k.a. Txillardegi, has not yet received recognition and appreciation from the city authorities, 6 years on following his death. Besides his political activity, always in the circle of Basque nationalism, Txillardegi was a great intellectual, who made high-value contributions on linguistics and literature. He was, for one, the...

Xabier Arregi 12-01-2018, NOTICIAS DE GIPUZKOA. Abstract: Xabier Arregi has complained about the room allocated by the public (Basque language) TV station ETB1 to Spanish. On the other hand, ETB2, the Spanish language channel, hardly accommodates a slot for Basque. It actually happens to be easier to hear Catalan than Basque. It feels especially offensive to see that interviews to Basque speakers with...

Jexuxmari Zalakain 09-01-2018, BERRIA. Abstract: In this article, journalist J. M. Zalakain highlights his surprise for the lack of prediction shown by the Catalan pro-independence sectors in the face of the Spanish state’s repressive response. They did not expect the Spanish government to act heavy-handed in order to stamp out the independence process, falling back as they were on democratic reason. By...

Iñaki Lopez de Luzuriaga 05-11-2017, ZUZEU Abstract: The “Basque way”, that is the naming chosen to oppose the so-to-say ‘crazy’ path taken by the Catalans, turned the baddies, to make their stand towards independence, as opposed to... the Basques, ironically, the ‘goodies’ now in the Spanish media and government! The phrase is intended to mean bilateral, consensual. This comes at the moment...

Iñaki Galdos Irazabal 17-10-2017, BERRIA Abstract: The author of the article complains about the ”dialect craze” that is taking hold of a lot of Basque media, which means that a lot of announcers and broadcasters are cheekily using their hometown’s Basque dialect instead of using Standard Basque (the one listeners from all of Euskal Herria can understand). Standard Basque went through harsh times...