The RTVE news council criticizes that ‘The Family of TV’ will report from the Vatican about the election of Leo XIV: “We deserve respect” | Television

The arrival of TV family A Spanish Television has raised the criticisms of unions and several public chain professionals, such as María Escario, although also the support of others, such as Paloma del Río and Cayetana Guillén Cuervo. Now, it is the TVE news council that is pronounced publicly to criticize that personnel external to the public corporation will be in charge of the informative coverage of the election of Pope Leo XIV this Thursday in the Vatican. “We deserve respect,” says the agency in a statement published this Friday entitled “In defense of the credibility of RTVE.”

It was the reporter Marta Riesco sent by the program created by the Osa Producciones (Save me, Nor we were…), which reported with a TVE microphone in hand, with the program cube but the blue window of the house. On the screen, the usual labels between informative and humoristic characteristic of the producer appeared. The Riesco connection was brief and sober, spoke of the outfits and interviewed some nuns in the Plaza San Pedro. Upon the arrival of the White Fumata, the news presenters Alejandra Herranz and Marta Carazo were responsible for leading an informative special in 1.

“The TVE news council urges the Presidency and the Board of Directors of RTVE to act so that the program TV family Do not go to the credibility of our informative services or harm our brand image. Information professionals in this house have long days in Rome informing with seriousness and rigor about the conclave for the election of the new Pope, ”requests the public chain body in a statement addressed to José Pablo López, president of the Corporation.

“To them, to our professionals, we congratulate you for the great work carried out these days, for living up to the public service function that we have entrusted. We value, in addition, the capacity to reaction from the management, interrupting the programming to make way to the informative services in the outcome of the conclave,” concludes the text.

Asked by this newspaper, the external producer The Osa Producciones has declined to make statements about this protest.

It is not the first criticism of the program this week. “Let someone take TVE seriously,” said Maria Escario, veteran sports journalist of the House and former deputy of the spectator, the social network X. With that comment he refers to the article published by Ángeles Caso, another historic of the public, in Article 14 in which he defends: “such a program, with my taxes.”