The missing racist comment
On Saturday afternoon, La 1 broadcast a special on Eurovision as a preview of the festival. They needed to warm up their engines and couldn't find more suitable personnel for the task than the team of The TV familyThey did a program with the collaborators dressed in the most emblematic dresses of the historical Spanish participants. Belén Esteban was characterized as Salomé and, from time to time, they made her dance to the rhythm of the I live singing to move the fringes of the clothes. The spectacle was in line with the pathos that has been seen until now, every afternoon, on public television.
Since the princess of the people She appears on this channel, and there's a palpable tension surrounding her every time she opens her mouth. Her verbosity and lack of filters provoke it. There's a latent state of alert to rein her in or rescue her from one of her characteristic comments. The woman doesn't quite understand that public television demands certain standards of correctness because, on television, she grew up in a wild state, on private channels without law or order. But on La 1, the more hours she spends live, the closer she gets to putting her foot in it. She gets closer to the precipice of barbarity. And on Saturday, that moment arrived.
María Patiño asked Belén Esteban if she had any other favorite representative. And she, after unconditionally supporting Melody and seeing all her artistic virtues, answered affirmatively and also praised the representative from the Netherlands. But the explanation couldn't have been more lamentable: "He's the little black boy who sings in French".
To give just one hypothetical example, if a football commentator had used this word to refer to a player, he would have been summarily dismissed. The era of the old Cola Cao advert is over, and it is inconceivable that public television would tolerate this type of commentary. At RTVE, everyone seems obsessed with investigating the Eurovision televote and the overtaking from Israel, but perhaps they would do well to first look at what's going on inside their own homes. Just remember how the festival's commentators invited the Spanish audience outside the country to vote up to twenty times on Melody. Within the same dynamic of the game, there is the possibility of more blatant fraud, promoting that each viewer's vote is worth twenty. And even more so if the mobile message has a cost. The more votes, the more benefits.
Instead of calling for debates and summits to investigate the televoting system, perhaps they should demand that the viewer's ombudsman pay attention to Belén Esteban's racist comment. Because the Eurovision Song Contest is held once a year, but this woman is live every afternoon.