33 years have passed since Mercedes Milá left TVE to start other television projects in the private sphere. Since then, the veteran journalist’s career has been marked, among others, by her years in Big Brother. Although in recent times, the Catalan has also dedicated herself to interviewing well-known people from different fields.
Now, after more than three decades, Milá returns to the public network with a new project, I don’t know what you’re talking about. Before the premiere, the journalist has been with María Escario, to whom she has told the “truth” of her signing, she has put her partner in trouble and has not hesitated to talk about freedom of expression and censorship. Once again, Mercedes Milá has not left anyone indifferent with her statements.
“It has been very exciting to return to Prado del Rey because for me it was like the lighthouse of my professional career,” Mercedes Milá began by saying to María Escario on the RTVE Responde program. “Why do you choose to return to the public?” the presenter wanted to know.
To which the Catalan woman blurted out: “Am I telling you the truth or am I sugarcoating it?” Immediately afterwards, Milá acknowledged the reason: “I return to the public thanks to José Pablo López, the director of General Content, who one day told María Ruiz, who is the boss of Zanskar, that he wanted to meet me. We went to eat and he seemed like a guy of such caliber that I thought: ‘If this guy wants me to come back one day, I’ll come back.'”
“Then Movistar stopped collaborating with me. And here we are, I return for the faith of a person, something in which I believe very much,” stressed Milá, who also highlighted the “very hard moments” that public television has gone through. “Now it seems like things are better, but that’s not why I’m coming back. But it is a philosophy that, if it is fulfilled, is my philosophy,” stated the veteran communicator.
As for his new television show, I don’t know what you’re talking about, it came about thanks to his niece. “One day we were talking about folklore and I quoted Lola Flores and then Marina, who is my community manager, blurted out: ‘And who is she?’ And she shocked me. I thought: ‘You have to tell the young people that she was from our past years.’”
The talk about the program went on a little longer, and Milá even explained who he was, since there could be young people who did not know about his career. However, there came a time when the guest, without mincing words, did not hesitate to put her partner in trouble by criticizing RTVE.
“As for political correctness, it depends on where you work. There is freedom and it is very important, even if they insist on denying it. You are a defender of the audience, but if you were a defender of the bosses you would give them a lot of zeros,” the journalist continued.
“Many times there has been a lack of courage on the part of the RTVE authorities because since they are so attentive to Parliament… The most important thing in public television and in all of them is freedom. Luckily, I always worked freely, in this company they never censored an interview with me, I didn’t have that problem,” he made it very clear.
