If we are going to take it with smoking paper, let's take it completely. The half measures are not good and the controversy always ends and TVE's decision has ended to give explanations for the insults poured by Maialen , one of the contestants of OT 2020 , against bullfighting and against bullfighting. And why he talked about half measures, because there is something that is not understood: why TVE gives explanations for this and not for the homophobic and macho comments and gestures of another of its contestants or for the crack of one of the judges, Natalia Jiménez, against the OT hearing? Or all or none, right ?.
The controversy arises in the first weeks of talent when Ariadna , the first expelled from the Academy, asks her classmates about what they think of bullfighting . Maialen does not cut a hair and does not doubt a second in expressing all his animosity towards the Spanish party. "An animal is being sacrificed. And they can be sacrificed by giving it an injection and that the animal does not suffer or can be sacrificed by putting it in a square and causing it to pass a stress from the copon, sticking banderillas on its back, while a bunch of assholes they are in a square drinking, smoking and descojonados, "Maialen argued, while Ariadne replied that he did not agree and the Navarrese replied that " he is very Nazi . " "Oysters, you have to be very psycho. It's very Nazi, a lot . And they come over and tell you that bulls give a lot of money. I don't know the figures, because I don't know them, but if you compare what I bullfighting costs me cleaning bullshit to keep me in my life ... They take my money and put it in the bullfighting bullshit . because they take money from taxes. And if you compare the money it generates with what it costs us it is fatal " .
There's not much to explain. It is clear that Maialen is totally against the national holiday and thinks of everything except that it is beautiful. It is his opinion, an opinion that many supporters of OT 2020 applauded, but also caused the reaction of those who are in favor of bullfighting and who did know the data that Maialen acknowledged ignoring. Thus, for example, the journalist Chapu Apaolaza , expert and lover of the national holiday, did not hesitate to respond to the contestant by publishing a tweet in which he assured that bullfighting spending in the General State Budget is 30,000 euros corresponding to the Prize National Bullfighting, and that VAT revenues in 2018 were 118 million euros .
The journalist, for more information, compared these data with what OT costs to TVE: "Budget of OT 2020 : 16 million euros of the public network. Income of 300,000. (Calculation of what it costs to call a whole town Nazi ) ", said the Apaolaza tweet.
The controversy was served not only by the words of Maialen or what TVE is spent on OT , but because it touched on a subject that always provokes very bright allegations on both sides. Obviously, the words of Maialen , who were supported by the companions who were with her at the table, also received the support of many of the program's followers, young followers who mostly see bullfighting in the same way as the See Maialen But on the other side were those who supported the controversial national holiday for a few years, those who defend it, those who consider it an art. The battle, another one, was served .
On the one hand, those who considered that what Maialen said was the truth and that they thought the same, and, on the other, those who considered that Maialen had no idea what he was talking about and that he had disrespected many people. I will not go into who is right, each to his own, but I will say that those words of Maialen were produced at the beginning of this edition of OT , they had minimal relevance, they were left in little more than a debate of the two Spains and here peace and after glory.
It has been TVE itself that has brought Maialen's harsh criticism back to the fore by agreeing to have to give explanations of it on RTVE responds , the program that is broadcast on La 2 on the last Sunday of each month, and in which the defender of the audience responds to the criticisms and concerns of the spectators who write to the program to send their complaints, suggestions and claims waiting for Ángel Nodal, the defender of the audience, to respond. And with Maialen they have done it.
"The dozens of people who have written to us are outraged because they believe they have been disrespected, including 300 people and the Toro del Lidia Foundation ," Nodal announced at the start of the program. RTVE Respond issued one of those complaints, that of a bullfighter who said that "Maialen's OT contestant has called fans' Nazis, psychopaths and assholes." I would like to remind Maialen that bullfighting is collected as Good Cultural Interest and that in the PGE there is only one game of 65,000 euros for bullfighting (...) Bullfighters do not ask how much it costs OT to TVE , but we just want to be treated with respect and that's why we rectify ". And TVE rectified.
And I do not say that the decision to give explanations, apologize and take action is wrong if part of the audience has complained about the words expressed about bullfighting , sure, but I do not think it was the only complaint or claim that RTVE has received about what was said or done in OT 2020 . First, because although the audiences of this edition are not being to launch rockets, the program has a percentage of followers on social networks and on its YouTube channel to pass out.
In fact, Maialen's conversation with his classmates was not broadcast at any gala , but it was seen on the 24-hour channel that TVE has on YouTube and where everything that happens in the Academy is seen. That is to say, that only a few saw it live and it was later the maelstrom and the word of mouth of social networks that gave importance to the "asshole", the "Nazi" and the "Maialen psychopath".
That is, it is not that Maialen said what he said in one of the galas live or in one of the brief interviews Roberto Leal makes to the contestants before acting, he said it in a conversation that even being public because it is broadcast in the OT 2020 YouTube channel really belongs to the intimacy of the contestants, and with intimacy I want to say that it belongs to those moments of daily life, of business, of relaxation, of disconnection ... It would be like when you are at home and you think about the president of the Government with your partner, your mother or a friend. Yes, they know that they are recording thousands of cameras, but I am sure that when they pour their opinions in such a natural way they are not aware that thousands of people are seeing them.
It is the risk that runs with the channels 24 hours -that they say it to Mediaset-. When Rosa María Mateo said she was not going to want realities on public television, she must have thought about it long before she said it, because on TVE there are, although they want to cover them with other names. Channels 24 hours, live life, and everything that a reality carries, however musical it may be, leads to these things happening.
There will always be controversies because it is impossible to control at every moment what each one says . It is impossible to measure what 16 people who are living in the same house and who are participating in the same contest can or should say. If they are given the freedom to talk about what they want and express what they consider, it must also be assumed that things like this can happen . I think that TVE's decision to give explanations will generate more controversy than Maialen's words more than a month ago and in a few weeks in which the Academy was involved in many other controversies that transcended much more like the macho comments and Jesus' homophobes , and for which it seems that TVE is not obliged to give explanations.
That is the second problem. If explanations of Maialen's insults are given to bullfighting and bullfighting, they must also be given about the words of Jesus or the comments of another of those expelled from the Academy, Eli , which led Noemí Galera , director of the Academy, had to get very, very serious and give a touch of attention to the contestants. But TVE? TVE did not say a half and was also very brown in social networks, even, I would say more than with Maialen and the bulls.
That Maialen's words were more than threadbands, because according to who listens to them. For some it will be to frame them and for others they will be a great offense. But the same can be said of the comments of Jesus, those of Eli or some attitudes that have been seen this year in OT 2020 that have touched on more than one occasion the red lines. Has anything been said? Nothing has been said on the part of public television. Have you given any explanation TVE? None. Why then with bullfighting yes and with homophobia, harassment or insults to the audience no?
Yes, we have also had insults to the audience and that has occurred with all the intention and during a gala . Not at the gala itself, but while it was being developed. It turns out that one of the judges, Natalia Jiménez , has become one of the worst valued by the audience who understands her assessments less each week.
As always, Twitter becomes the platform for fans of the program to throw all the bile or criticize everything they think is meaningless, which in the case of Natalia Jiménez , is more than justified. Well, the judge, instead of assuming mistakes or directly shutting up, which in these cases is always the best, decided to answer the viewers with a story on his Instagram account in which he called the fans of the program less beautiful and made fun of the critics of the spectators towards her. And, hey, he hasn't done it just once because it gave him a heat, that we can all have it, but every time he has the chance he releases the strip .
Of that, which is a direct attack on the audience, of that, TVE does not say a half. TVE's explanations have been very simple. The one in charge of giving the face has been Toñi Prieto , the director of Entertainment of the public television, which has assured that "they are personal opinions that from RTVE we do not share".
Prieto explained that "they were made spontaneously, on the YouTube channel" and that they are opinions of a personal nature. However, Toñi Prieto has recalled in the public chain's apology to the bullfighting fans that "TVE is obliged to defend freedom of expression . "
The explanations have ended with the words of Nodal, which has warned that, although OT is not an opinion program , "it is subject to the rules that govern the code of the programs. Therefore, I trust that from now on we will have consider this premise. "
And now, once TVE has already apologized for Maialen's words, now that he has returned the controversy to the front line, now that he has marked a contestant who is still in the Academy, now what? As my mother would say, things at home are arranged at home. I would understand, I insist, that if what Maialen said he does in a live gala, he does it in a press conference, in a record company, etc., TVE, the producer or who should have to give the appropriate explanations. I would even understand that if they had previously been considered equally serious, this time it was also done. But, just because of this, just because yes, just because of what Maialen said ...
But why are explanations only given when bullfighting is insulted? Why didn't the same thing that was done with Eli or with Jesus or with everyone be done when none of them were isolated and isolated from one of their companions? Why didn't Noemí Galera speak with Maialen or with those who were present in that conversation? Why remove something that was already dead and buried again? It makes no sense to do it now, weeks later and without having done it before. Always halfway, always generating controversy . As this OT was having few, we are going to add more wood to the fire to see if the house burns.
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