New controversial episode in the program Connect the Canary Islands, from Radio Television Canaria (RTVC). The presenter of the space, Ibán Padrón, gave way live to Emma Colao, transgender activist and president of the Social Rights Observatory of the Canary Islands, to talk about mental health problems among Canarian workers. However, he did not recognize the former Reunir candidate for the presidency of the Islands, going so far as to say “it seems that we are talking about someone else, right? Companions?”.
Colao responded: “No, no, we talked about me.” But the program cut the call. “We made a mistake with the video call and we immediately resumed the one we had planned,” Padrón said.
The presenter justified the error by claiming that on the set they were seeing another person, “a nutrition expert” who had to intervene in the second part of the broadcast. When she reconnected with Colao, the activist, visibly upset by what had happened, responded that there had been no confusion, but that the space had misgendered her.
“What just happened seems so aberrant to me that I have to cut the broadcast,” Colao concluded.
Padrón defended by the very fact that he does know Colao “perfectly”, but that on the set “we have a signal and he was not seeing it”, implying that a technical failure had occurred. “I would like to clarify it so that you can stay completely calm in that case, okay?” the presenter reiterated.
Connect the Canary Islands It is the same program that censored live a talk show host, journalist Francisco Pomares, while he was detailing the details of a new case of alleged corruption regarding the purchase of masks during the pandemic in which the president of the Las Palmas Sports Union, Miguel Ángel Ramírez, a former deputy of the Canarian Coalition, Lucas Bravo de Laguna, and a former leader of Ciudadanos, Christian Zerpa, are being investigated.
The presenter cut him off, alleging “direction orders”. The reaction to this censorship was immediate from the works committees of the public entity RTVC, who expressed “rejection” for what happened. Most of the Islands’ media landscape also followed suit.
This program was incorporated into the RTVC network after the arrival of Fernando Clavijo (Canarian Coalition) to the Canary Islands Government. It is produced by Etiazul, a production company involved in the scandal of rigged hearings that led to the removal of two audiometers in the Archipelago by Kantar Media. The visible head of that production company is Pedro Guerra, who also directs the website Canary Islands Weathercondemned to change her previous name (Canary Islands in Time) due to a lawsuit from Canarias Ahora.
The Commercial Court number 1 of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria has just sentenced Etiazul to compensate the company that owns Canarias Ahora, Clan de Medio Comunicación y Marketing, with 31,304 euros for this very reason.
Conecta Canarias has a cost of more than three million euros per year. Despite costing more than its predecessor, it has less audience.
2024-04-06 12:26:54
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