More crisis for 'The TV Family': 130 former RTVE employees also sign a manifesto against the program.
The afternoon program is attracting protests within the state entity.
BarcelonaInternal inflammation at RTVE due to the magazine The TV family Growing. If on Friday the professional news council, which represents the company's journalists, protested the fact that a contributor to the laundry program had assumed a news connection from the Vatican, now 132 former professionals from the company have signed a harsh manifesto against this program produced by the creators of the defunct Save me on Telecinco. The text is very concise: "As former RTVE employees, we want to show our support for the statement published by the TVE news council and join in the damage that a program like The TV family can mean for the image of a public television station." From there, they claim that "the content, its tone and what some of its collaborators represent do not meet the minimum quality and principles required by a medium that is always obliged to be a public service."
RNE and advisor to the public entity; Georgina Cisquella, Sylvia Fernández de Bobadilla or Carmen Enríquez, among other well-known faces of the channel.
journalist Ángeles Caso, linked to the channel for many years, published in the media Article 14 an opinion column titled "Someone should take RTVE seriously," dedicated to the controversial afternoon program. In the text, she explains that she was reluctant to watch the program in case her fears were confirmed, which they were. "All these 'characters' who for years have been bragging on private television about being ignorant have appeared again. They have spoken about every imaginable wink as if they were lecturing us on a crucial issue, they have flayed women for their appearance or their behavior while claiming to be feminists, they have put us before the eyes tacky, uneducated, gossipy, and unbalanced people from a society that no longer knows what to entertain itself with. And there they are, doing the same thing again, but now on public television." The article was accompanied by information according to which the state broadcaster had spent 500,000 euros on the parade of floats that starred in the first episode of this show, which, moreover, is failing in terms of ratings. ~BK_S, who had previously been the channel's ratings defender, re-edited her comrade's article with a single, definitive comment: "Uffff!"