Pedro Sánchez supports Inés Hernand and she responds forcefully to criticism: "You are the icon"

Esther Mucientes Madrid

Madrid

Updated Tuesday, February 13, 2024-07:26

• Controversy The RTVE News Council launches against Inés Hernand and her behavior at the Goya with Pedro Sánchez: "It has no place"

In a matter of 72 hours, the behavior and compliments of

Inés Hernand

during her broadcast for RTVE Play of the

Goya

gala for

Pedro Sánchez

has brought with it the reaction not only of dozens of viewers but also of the

Interactive Media News Council

(CdI). of the Public Corporation, as well as former colleagues from the public entity and colleagues as well. Some, against, others, for. However, the two protagonists of the moment in question remained to speak:

Inés Hernand

and the President of the Government. And both, almost coordinated, did it last night.

Inés Hernand

chose the Cadena Ser

Hora 25

program ; the President of the Government chose X. Both did so in a forceful manner. The first in a long and resounding speech where, let's say, his own thing was almost in the background

("The important meter has broken")

.

Pedro Sánchez

, for his part, took a stand in favor of the presenter and lawyer in a brief tweet that he accompanied with a video of Inés Hernand with her best moments on the Goya Awards red carpet:

"Inés Hernand, you are the icon."

.

As he already did in

Al Rojo Vivo when Antonio Ferreras asked him two weeks ago about

Zorra

's victory

at the

Benidorm Fest

("The fachoesfera would have liked to wear

El cara al sol

"), the President of the Government did not want to let the opportunity to speak out in this year's

Goya

controversy

and do so in a more than clear way. Some words that have surprised the presenter herself.

"I can only say WOW

," RTVE's external collaborator responded shortly after on the social network.

Inés Hernand

's behavior

in her broadcast for

RTVE Play

on the Goya red carpet was not liked outside or inside the house. The News Council of RTVE Interactive Media (CdI) issued a statement this Monday in which they showed their total "rejection with the tone and content of the broadcast of the red carpet of the Goya Awards on RTVE Play by a collaborator external" which they do not cite, but which clearly referred to

Inés Hernand

. What could have remained just another Goya anecdote and some critical accounts and applause, this Monday went beyond the joke and became a formal complaint.

Hernand

's brief meeting

with

Pedro Sánchez

at the event was harshly criticized on social networks for

appearing to cheer on the President of the Government

on public television. The presenter approached him and asked: "What is the last movie he saw?" He didn't mention any titles: "Many, I can't tell you one." The communicator wanted to know: "Did you like

The Snow Society

?" The President of the Government replied: "I didn't like it, I loved it."

Hernand

finished by saying: "

You are an icon, president

, we love you!"

The

News Council

asked those responsible for

RTVE Play

for explanations about what happened during this broadcast, which was not only the cheering of the president but many other things. "As much as we want to give a light-hearted, alternative tone designed for a youth audience, we believe that any content that carries the

RTVE brand must comply with the quality and neutrality standards included in the

RTVE

style book

and within the framework of the

Information Statute

, specifically its articles 8 and 9, which the Corporation's professionals are well aware of and to which they owe," the statement states.

Hours after the statement, Inés Hernand took advantage of her presence on

Hora 25

to respond to the criticism, reflecting on the importance of money in society and launching a kind of reproach to those who have criticized her, but above all to the oversize that she has had. her broadcast of the Goya: "(...) Indeed, as much as it hurts some, in my personal case, although I am not a journalist, I am a communicator and I entertain, and I am consumed with laughing with me or at me.

Around the "The invoice I collect amounts to 6 salaries

. It's that simple."

The presenter has been very critical not only of the controversy generated with her but also of the entire society and, as she said, what is really important and what is not: "There are those who say that money is the only true God and , depending on who, it seems not to be a lie. Does

money buy everything or is it like an artificial intelligence that seems to solve mechanical and immediate things for you until you read an essay and that text passes by you without any soul?

At the user level Without being Florentino Pérez, does money give you dignity? Does money give you ethics? Does money give you time back?

Hernand

has pointed out that society as a whole "is more intelligent than that broad brush in which they want to keep us constantly on the pulse." "The social and political conditions that come with being born in one place or another, having more or less opportunities, he explained, he wants to blur with a discourse of demagoguery that dies in a few hours," he continued.

Farmers,

Hernand

explained during the program, have problems with Europe's adjustment quotas or with the bureaucracy that means that something as important as tilled land is increasingly being decimated in a world of climate emergency. "The workers' struggle," he noted, "is also born from a sector such as culture, where only 7% can make a living from making films, and the rest combine their vocation and, literally, their love of art with other jobs."

"

García Gallardo

(vice president of the Junta de Castilla y León) said that the gentlemen are the ones who want to make a living by producing cinematographic works that no one sees later at the expense of millions of euros that the Spaniards pay with effort, to which Almodóvar brilliantly replied something that is very important: the money received from the State is more than returned through taxes and social security, in addition to creating thousands of jobs," the presenter continued.

"

Don't let them talk about money back and forth

, because money is a Chernobyl cockroach and it is everywhere in many forms. We were going to come out better, but they forgot that their flag and their spaces are also ours." ", it is finished.

Inés Hernand did not want to enter directly into the protests about her behavior at the gala. A behavior that has led the News Council to request

RTVE

not to use it again based on

article 8

of the Information Statute, which establishes that "audiovisual information professionals have the duty to offer the society information of public relevance with truthfulness, objectivity, impartiality and respect for the values ​​enshrined in the

Radio and Television Law

. In their work they are obliged to fulfill the duties that the public service entails and, especially, they will distinguish and separate the information of opinion; they will promote knowledge and dissemination of constitutional principles and the values ​​of equality, freedom, pluralism and tolerance; and they will facilitate democratic debate and the free expression of opinions.

Her praise for the President of the Government has not been the only thing criticized in Inés Hernand's broadcast. As the News Council points out, in addition to "the belching, the complaints and the bad words,"

Hernand

also showed signs of not knowing very well who she was interviewing or who the characters were who were walking the red carpet. For example, one of her most commented videos is when she confuses María León's representative with María León herself.

"Oh, damn,"

Hernand

snapped

minutes after starting to dance to

Ana Belén

Derroche

's song to refer to the artist as one of the presenters of the gala.

This behavior was what caused a wave of criticism against

Inés Hernand

.

José Ramón Patterson

, a journalist who worked at

RTVE

, was, along with other colleagues, one of the hardest with

Hernand

's attitude . "He addresses the President of the Government, calls him 'presi' and ends up yelling at him 'you are an icon, we love you!'. An intolerable antics: it violates a few rules of the Information Statute and the RTVE Style Book

.

They are already slow to take measures," he said. Journalist

Susana Burgos

said: "Can anyone imagine that same girl or another screaming 'You're an icon, presi!' to

Feijóo

or years ago to

Rajoy

?"

The criticism has also been complemented by praise (and not only from the President of the Government) towards

Inés Hernand

, one of the presenters who receives the most support from the young audience. "Someone is going to have to explain to me why we don't have it on absolutely all the Spanish red carpets," said a follower of Inés Hernand on social networks regarding her broadcast of the Goya.

Inés Hernand

's tone and comments

should not be surprising, since the presenter usually goes quite a bit off script in her public appearances. In fact, days before the

Benidorm Fest

she was the first to speak out loud and clear about Israel's presence in

Eurovision

given what is happening in Gaza. She also showed that she always flees from corseting in the post-

Benidorm Fest

programs

, where I will make use of her characteristic and irreverent humor.