The 'bangaranga' criterion of the 'Telenotícies'

Sunday, the Telenotícies migdia opened, logically, with the Andalusian elections. Thanks to an artificial filigree with rhetoric, it linked to a piece about Isabel Díaz Ayuso's murky trip to Mexico, from which she had already returned six days earlier. But the most surprising thing is that the third news item of the TN (and the second opening headline) was Bulgaria's victory at the Eurovision Festival.After telling us that the song Bangaranga had won, it was framed as an international conflict to explain the influence of the televote in catapulting Israel to second place. The report included a survey of Israeli eurofans. The piece tried hard to give it unjustified geopolitical relevance. It was implied that Telenotícies had predicted a victory for Israel that did not materialize. The problem is not that Eurovision exists within the TN, but the hierarchy and treatment it received. Eurovision took precedence over the war in Ukraine, with Kyiv's biggest attack on Moscow. It also took precedence over the Ebola outbreak and the shooting death of a man in the Port de la Marina neighborhood. As a final touch, they announced the return to prison of a certain Dino Marcelo, and, using the excuse that they had images of him robbing a supermarket, they added statements from his lawyer to justify her client's conduct.The report that followed caused perplexity. It was about catechumens in Catalonia. They explained who they were and the growth of this community, which has gone from 161 adult baptisms in 2022 to 327 in 2026. The information led us to the church of Sant Pere de Reus, where four people were participating in a community baptism. One explained how catechesis had allowed him to complete one half of himself, and a woman spoke to us about the inner strength she felt to live the Church. The piece lacked informational distance: what reasons explain this supposed boom in Catalonia. This must be done because public television must be clear about its criteria for managing religious beliefs. In the Telenotícies certain discourses cannot be disguised as simple human experience. But the most surprising thing is that the catechumens' report was prioritized over the summary of the Pujol case, Salvador Illa's institutional trip to California, and the budget negotiations. Unheard of. Eurovision, the prison for Dino Marcelo, and the 327 catechumens of 2026 ahead of Catalan politics. The news is increasingly being contaminated by digital experience and emotional consumption. Ayuso is the state's Trump, the omnipresent figure who functions as an element of tension in any news report. Eurovision has very exuberant images and an inevitable political background, but it should not be turned into a first-rate international conflict, losing sight of the musical spectacle.Bangaranga, the title of the winning song at Eurovision, in Creole language means chaos or mess. A very fitting word to define the scale of priorities of Telenotícies. A bangaranga criterion that reflects the journalistic crisis of our days.