Article: El Pais in rare break with socialist president; Loyalist paper's shift stuns Spain ; Criticism of president over economy followed a spat about digital TV

Doreen Carvajal
International Herald Tribune
09-14-2009
El Pais in rare break with socialist president; Loyalist paper's shift stuns Spain ; Criticism of president over economy followed a spat about digital TV
Byline: Doreen Carvajal
Type: News

Some suspect the newly muscular coverage of Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero is a result of a backstage clash between the newspaper's parent company, Grupo Prisa, and a rival, Mediapro.

When loyal readers opened Spain's leading daily newspaper, El Pais, last Sunday, some may have spilled their morning cafe con leche.
The 30-year-old, center-left newspaper -- long a reliable supporter of the governing Socialist Party -- published a huge, withering ...

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