I was watching the morning news last Wednesday and the Presidenta de la Comunidad de Madrid, Esperanza Aguirre, was addressing some issues from the parade of El Dia del Pilar in one of the main channels (I don’t remember which one). This however turned into a very heated conversation and somewhat uncomfortable for the viewer.
I don’t think it’s very common for me to see an anchor, not attacking but harshly confronting such an important figure before. The anchor woman, who looked pretty young, kept asking Esperanza questions that she didn’t feel like answering. There was one point when the anchor told Esperanza, Usted no es la que decide lo que le preguntamos, somos nosotros los que hacemos las preguntas. I found this extremely shoking that someone has the liberty to talk like that to such an important political figure on national TV. I guess this plays on with Spain being very open and opinionated. In my opinion though, I found this behavior a little rude from the anchor towards Esperanza. I understand she was being a little stubborn and she kept saying “I’m not going to comment on that,” however you’re in National TV and I thought that there were some boundaries that shouldn’t be crossed, but maybe that is just me and my non political view.
Media just has a whole different meaning here, and it’s interesting every time I see this type of confrontations. Like everyone is so big in respect towards your elders but that is not what it seemed like in this show. There is also a lot of “interesting” programming after 2 am. All these different channels have a variety of call and guess this very easy word that no one seems to ever get. Or tarots reading or stuff like that.
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