À Punt workers rebel against the chain's management

ValenciaThe shadow of the old Canal 9 is very long and the employees of À Punt, many of whom worked at the former Valencian radio and television station, do not want the network to suffer the degradation of its predecessor. At least, not with their silence and complicity. Therefore, this Sunday they filled the networks with posts in which they denounce the lack of sharing the practices of the new corporation.

The spark that has once again ignited the workers' discontent has been the management's decision to broadcast a bullfight from 1997 instead of a news special about the massive demonstration which took place on Saturday, and on the occasion of the commemoration of the first anniversary of the Dana of October 29 of last year, to demand the resignation of the Valencian president, Carlos Mazón.

Accompanied by the hashtag #LaPlantilladAPuntNoCalla (ThePlantDoesNotKeepCalled), many employees distributed a letter in which they lament that the network's management has once again "subjected Valencian public broadcasting to an avalanche of criticism and an unacceptable level of discredit." "With the complicit silence of the News management, À Punt turned its back on the public's clamor to hold President Mazón and his government accountable for the greatest recent disaster in the Valencian Community," they added.

The union branches of the CCOO and the Valencian Intersindical have also joined the protest. In fact, the entire company committees called for the immediate resignation of the network's chairman of the board of directors, Vicente Ordaz; the general director, Francisco Aura; the head of news, Josep Magraner; and the program director, Paco Picó. If you want to add it... In the case of the last two, they are two former officials from the old Channel 9, brought back by the PP for the new station. In the case of Ordaz, he was the head of news for Cope in Valencia and is a communicator particularly resistant to the promotion and use of Valencian.

This episode's complaint adds to others recently made by the À Punt staff. In the previous one, they issued a statement In this article, they denounce that, under the leadership appointed by the People's Party (PP) and Vox, public broadcasting has become a "transmission belt" for the Valencian government, where "manipulation" of information and the production of "news to order" are not uncommon. In this regard, they emphasize that the elimination of the Citizens' Council and the temporary suspension of the News Council, combined with the new regulations of this body, "has eliminated all decision-making capacity of the editorial staff, erasing the necessary exercise of transparency." Furthermore, they explained that they are ashamed of "the deterioration suffered" by the Valencian language, and that they understand why it is "the object of well-deserved ridicule on social media."