Wednesday afternoon began Bad tongues, one of the big premieres of the season on Spanish public television. It premiered simultaneously in La 1 and La 2, to underline the importance of the commitment. Presented by Jesús Cintora, it is a current affairs format, lasting more than two hours, halfway between a talk show and a panel show, which combines an incisive look at the day's news with reporting and humor. Cintora opened the program by thanking his mother, almost as if he were collecting an award, delighted to have met himself. The host is guilty of a fearless vanity, as if he were the only one who dares to call a spade a spade. He indulges himself in a somewhat over-the-top journalistic arrogance.Not everyone is happy that we are here.", he regretted. I denounced that they had just started and that the commission had been cancelled, to the social experts, and that the extreme right had reprimanded a reporter from the program. A strategy that was supposed to serve to sell the informative value.
The presenter is involved in regular television talk shows who, Theoretically, they have to support a hypothetical ideological equidistance. But the program has a markedly socialist bias. The discourse is focused on combating complexities on the right and the extreme, which, per fer-ho, relies on more topical, easy and perilous resources. incisors to trobades of the Francisco Franco Foundation, with speakers who fan apology for the dictator and come from Marxandatge of the Falange. They also recall Jiménez Losantos's most notable interventions in order to sucar in his seus disbarats. The proposal ends up leading the program to the opposite effect. In the fight against the extreme right, it ends up giving them space to promote themselves and play the victim of public television. The program seeks conflict and goes in search of the sordid redoubts of the most disturbing dandruff. With the excuse of fighting fake news They end up giving attention to the most absurd theories. Plush puppets delve into the controversies of Isabel Díaz Ayuso, Santiago Abascal, and José Luis Martínez-Almeida. The result is a program that is eminently Madrid-centric, limited to covering the debates in the capital, and with a deeply ideological content, with a tone that is somewhere between tense, repellent, and forcedly humorous.We are not afraid of you"Cintora says, looking into the camera, defying the fascists who are attacking the program and its reporters."We just want to do journalism", he says, hoping for a medal.
The premiere had the energy of a program prepared for weeks, but it's obvious that the day-to-day will take its toll and it will have to keep up with the more topical content of the afternoon magazines. Bad tongues has confused debate with intensity, plurality with a simple staging, and rather than fighting the right and the fake news needs them and feeds on them.
