The provisional administrator of Telemadrid, José Antonio Sánchez, has used this Tuesday the sanctions that the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, has received from the Electoral Board, to justify that Madrid public television has been warned by this body for using expressions that put their informational neutrality at risk. “We all have those sentences,” he said during an appearance in the Assembly. Furthermore, the manager has opined that the hoax issued by the network about the president’s wife, Begoña Gómez, is not attributable to Telemadrid, since the television “echoed the information from a very prestigious medium.” [The Objective]”. Sánchez, finally, has apologized for the fact that Telemadrid’s news chief refused to give explanations for these controversies in the Chamber – “I am his boss and I have told him no, that I am the one who shows his face” – and has had tense exchanges with Pablo Padilla, from Más Madrid, who has ironically disfigured his “sympathy and overwhelming wit”, in addition to his “vileness and villainy”, when he understood that the deputy was insinuating that he charged commissions for contracting with certain production companies.
Sánchez was appointed in 2021 by Ayuso as provisional administrator of Telemadrid, a newly created position for which he was chosen thanks to the endorsement of a career that includes having directed RTVE during the presidency of Mariano Rajoy, having confessed to being a PP voter, and appear in The Bárcenas Papers. His mandate, which will expire before July, when the president’s team pushes for the arrival of a new CEO to the company, has been full of controversy.
In recent months, Más Madrid has had to send a burofax for Telemadrid to rectify the statement that it had not condemned the Hamas attacks of October 7. The information services have also rectified false information about the wife of the President of the Government. And the Central Electoral Board has ordered the withdrawal of an expression against Pedro Sánchez (“that Sánchez”) because it considers that its use endangers the informative neutrality of public television, against which a sanctioning file has been opened.
However, the provisional administrator has downplayed all those blots during an appearance marked by his peculiar style, which mixes friendliness, a deep technical knowledge of the world of television and an innate ability to argue with the opposition by saying everything without hardly saying anything. nothing.
This is what Sánchez said about the hoax that Telemadrid issued about Begoña Gómez, whom he identified as the recipient of a government subsidy that had actually been received by a Cantabrian businesswoman with the same name.
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“We did not give any false information,” he said, emphatically. “We echoed the information from another medium [The Objective]certainly very prestigious: it is directed by one of the great journalists of our country [Álvaro Nieto]; The most important center-left journalist in the recent history of Spain collaborates there, such as Don Juan Luis Cebrián; There, the most important president of the Government in recent years in the history of Spain, Mr. Felipe González, is also interviewed, making him a medium, from my point of view, of recognized prestige,” he justified. “That medium gave erroneous, wrong news, I suppose without bad faith,” he continued. “And when they rectified, we, the same ones who had echoed the news, echoed the error.”
Sánchez has not given much importance to the fact that the Central Electoral Board has disfigured Telemadrid, as the Provincial Electoral Board previously did, the use of the expression “that Sánchez” to introduce a video in which the president of the government is seen criticizing political adversaries “with unusual toughness” and “bronco style,” according to the presenter.
“It was a human error (…) that does not harm the president, it harms the media that did it, it denigrates us,” Sánchez lamented. “But do not resort to those arguments about the condemnations of the Electoral Board, because look, four times the President of the Government has been fined, fined!, by the Central Electoral Board in recent days,” he told the socialist deputy. Horacio Díez about sanctions that, in reality, began at least in 2020.
And he has listed: “One, with 500 euros, because he used the Moncloa offices to do an interview. The second time, for some statements that the Council of Europe made upon his arrival, with 2,200 euros. I believe these things will be the daily life of politics. Another third sanction because he announced in the middle of the electoral campaign that Navantia… well, we all have those convictions because we don’t do it well, with the failures and such.”
Sánchez’s mandate is drawing to a close. Before July he should hand over power to a new general director of Telemadrid, a position for which he has not initially applied. Until then, however, the company’s ultimate responsibility lies with you. This Tuesday, after defending the professionalism of Telemadrid reporters, he wanted to be pragmatic.
“Nothing ever guarantees infallibility,” he said about the possibility of Telemadrid issuing false information despite the efforts of its journalists to verify its veracity. “If an error occurs, which it usually does, because we are human beings, we make mistakes, we rectify them and we are aware of the error produced,” he concluded.
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