After the penultimate Benidorm Fest I wrote about “presenters who do not understand the thick line that separates the
podcast
with
friends
from a television program”, I was referring to Inés Hernand, but I did it timidly, like “someone has killed someone and I don't care.” "I like to point."
Since life is about rectifying itself—at least since lives are so long, the Sumerians could die without giving up their Mesopotamian arm because they only lived thirty years—as soon as the third edition arrived I valued what I had previously hated.
Ruth Lorenzo, Marc Calderó and Ana Prada are great professionals, but until Hernand appeared on screen the galas fell apart like the laziest little pig's straw house.
I had not seen her broadcast of the Goya on RTVE Play until I read a statement that accused her of treating the President of the Government with a “flattering tone” and using “bad words without context.”
He sounded so promising that I spent the seven hours that his coverage lasted—seven hours, that requires a lot of professionalism, even if it is not appreciated. To my disappointment, the “flattering tone” was not kneeling before Sánchez in a Fernando Galindo style, “an admirer, a friend, a slave, a servant”, just shout the same “you are an icon!”
with which he had given the ears of all those interviewed.
Maybe if I had said “I like fruit” it wouldn't have raised so many suspicions, who knows.
And the “curse words” didn't sound so bad and had a lot of context, but to discern it you have to know Hernand's previous work, which is what led RTVE Play to hire her.
The Ente resorted to it to capture an audience that does not want to swallow 10 minutes of Méndez-Leite's speech - no one did - and probably has not seen one of the nominated films, but thanks to its interviews more oriented towards TikTok than a television screen and with his ease, sometimes so burdensome, he has known
O como
,
Creatura
or
Arrival
.
TVE should stay with that.
Hernand has done the job she was hired to do.
Of course there are great journalists on public television to cover the Goya in a conventional way: Carlos del Amor, that person capable of using the expression “cinema magic” in a non-ironic way, Elena S. Sánchez and José Fernández did it with their solvency regular on TVE;
Inés Hernand was at RTVE Play to complement her work, not to replace it.
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