This Thursday, February 22, the unexpected news broke of the resignation of the entire RTVE Interactive Media News Council after the controversy that arose around the behavior of Inés Hernand on the red carpet of the latest edition of the Goya Awards held in Valladolid on February 10.
And a brief conversation with the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, live on RTVE Play unleashed a barrage of criticism both on social networks and within the public corporation, which several days later released a statement in which they regretted the behavior of the ”external collaborator” during the red carpet and criticized ”the flattering tone she had towards a president of the Government”.
However, the situation took a new turn this Thursday, February 22, when the president of the RTVE Interactive Media News Council, Óscar López Canencia, announced his irrevocable resignation through a statement and on his social networks.
As he explained in the resignation letter that he shared on his ”I have resigned. I believe it is my duty when a gap opens between an elected official and those represented by him,’ he confessed in his X (Twitter) profile.
But López Canencia’s resignation has not been the only one that has been made public today. The other two members of the council, Santiago Riesco and Antonio Vega, have also left their position in the public corporation.
The resignation of the three members of the council has completely revolutionized the news in our country and many users have wanted to speak out through their social networks. But the person who also wanted to talk about this unexpected decision was Inés Hernand. The content creator did not hesitate to express her opinion through her X profile (Twitter), where she wanted to clarify the information that had been made public.
”1. It is not the entire council, 2. It is not because of my behavior, 3. It was not their competence, being an entertainment and not an informative space. ERGO, I would appreciate it if you, who ARE journalists, would not fail to tell the truth by misleading the distribution of information,” the influencer wrote.
In addition, the influencer also wanted to clarify certain issues related to the controversial statement from the Interactive Media News Council through her Instagram profile. ”RTVE as an entity has hundreds of departments that are not necessarily interconnected. “Then he decides to give this advice that has nothing to do with RTVE Play to point out my bad behavior without having seen all of the seven hours of content,” she commented.
”The entire council has not resigned, only three members, we do not know if it is because of this specific case or the accumulation they had. In order not to have the support of the workers, I think there has to be a host of things, but I am not going to be the one to judge this situation. It can only say that RTVE is not just for a few. I write down my failures, but I only ask no to decontextualization and no to the appropriation of spaces,’ he stated.
