Silvia Intxaurrondo and the kebab exclusives

The announcement of Silvia Intxaurrondo's renewal at the helm of La 1's morning magazine has left journalist and commentator Juan Soto Ivars in an uncomfortable position. In a podcast from the newspaper Abc of June assured to have heard in a kebab place how some RTVE workers were commenting that the journalist had already emptied her dressing room. That the information was more fragile than my bank account from the 20th onwards was already demonstrated by a fact: theAbc did not dare to make it news. But the newspaper's caution did not extend to pseudo-media such as ESdaily, which made a piece of it. “Soto Ivars discovers Silvia Intxaurrondo's best-kept secret in a kebab: end of her time at TVE,” they wrote. By the way, the headline deserves some award for its abstruse syntax because, with this picturesque order of sentence elements, it might seem that the journalist hides her secrets between layers of lamb strips and yogurt sauce.

The podcaster made sure to emphasize that it was just a conversation snatched on the fly. But making it explicit shouldn't be any kind of shield, because the damage is already done: you spread misinformation and revealing its source gives it an aura of truth. If theAbc has enough editorial judgment not to publish a piece of crap like this in print or online, and it should also be careful not to compromise its brand with a podcast. I understand that some people seek fame by saying things without confirming them. Surely some of them are right. But for a media outlet to feed these formats of putting your feet up on the table and smoking a cigar seems incomprehensible to me because it contributes to the devaluation of information processed with minimum standards. Kebab journalism already has this: not even two scoops of hot sauce can disguise that the meat is rancid, spoiled.