We have said here a few times that comparisons are hateful especially for the loser. And on television it happens that there are professional behaviors and sloppy behaviorsAlthough normally professionalism, in addition to quality, does not usually find its correlate in the audience data, but the opposite happens, due to a thousand and one reasons that now it would be very tedious to explain.
This is due to the fact that now in the particular television universe there is much talk about the brand new defender of the audience of Save me, Rocio Carrasco. Clearly the signing itself is inconsistent with the famous previous docuseries for a number of reasons. As it is also obvious that with her entry into this program the daughter of Rocío Jurado he plunges into the same world that hurt him so much in the past. The excuse that your section, Talk to her, will serve to “build” and improve the operation of the program does not serve to hide reality. The thing about “defending the audience” is the euphemism chosen to place it as a social gathering without saying it.
The television critic of The vanguard, Albert Doménech, has explained it without fanfare but with crystal clarity in a video that must be recommended: she doesn’t measure up on television but it is almost impossible to defend this opinion without being lynched or branded as a macho or who knows what. Taking that into account, in this case it will be better to expose what a true television audience advocate actually has to do. It would be better, therefore, to pay attention to the work of Angel Nodal on Spanish Television.
This veteran journalist with more than thirty years of experience in the house, especially in the news services, presents a series program called RTVE responded. Basically the program team deals with analyze the complaints and suggestions of viewers about the content broadcast on the public channel and then there is a space of half an hour where the pertinent answers are offered to the audience. RTVE professionals appear, in addition to Nodal himself, who show their faces to judge what happened. Sometimes they admit mistakes. And other times they qualify what happened.
The sobriety and professionalism required for a job that is related to ethics and deontology in the television medium are very far from the cries of Save me.
In the last installment, issued at the end of June and that can be consulted on the website of the public corporation, the furious criticisms of TVE for the unfortunate role of Spain in Eurovision were reviewed, different complaints related to Masterchef (from macho comments to why the contestants don’t wear hats) or curious questions such as why in the program The adventure of knowledge a report was made in favor of eucalyptus. All this with the sobriety and professionalism required for a job that is related to ethics and deontology in television. Far from the screams of Save me.
Surely the work of RTVE’s ombudsman, assessed in the corporation’s own bylaws, it is not infallible. There is no doubt that the very selection of the complaints to be dealt with may be a filter used in an advantageous or even ideologically partisan way by those responsible for the program. In addition, in the June delivery there were a couple of infomercials on TVE’s own coverage. But, after seeing it, we have to conclude that RTVE responded It is a healthy and necessary self-criticism for any television, but even more so for one of those paid by taxpayers.
Nobody watches Nodal’s program on La 2, of course. And yet, millions of people will see Rocío Carrasco in her particular defense of the audience. But that is another story.
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