El bulo transphobic about Begoña Gomez it ends up costing the presenter who consented to it the job. Madrid television TV district has fired Eurico Campano, who until now led the gathering Los untouchables, which has been cancelled.
The transphobic hoax that was spread on the Madrid channel about the wife of the President of the Government has had repercussions at the media level six months after it was spread and three months after the Moncloa tenant took it to court.
Sources close to the channel indicate that the presenter of the social gathering in which the fake new, the veteran Eurico Campano, He was fired a few days ago by the owner of the channel, Jesus Red Angel, “on account of the tensions that are being generated by the judicial development of the complaint.”
Historia de un bulo
On Wednesday, November 23, 2022, Pilar Baselga, famous for spreading anti-vaccine hoaxes in the midst of a pandemic in Public mirror o Everything is a lietook over the star gathering of the Distrito TV channel with a collection of lies against Begoña Gómez. “I dare say that there are suspicions that our dear second lady, because the first is the Queen, was initially Begoño. This wife or husband of the president comes from a family with a tradition of gay saunas”he assured.
Baselga, clinging to unknown sources, continued with her monologue: “I also remember, but not in which media, more alternative, obviously, than Begoño As soon as he arrived at La Moncloa, he was appointed director of a Complutense master’s degree”. And he finished off the salad of hoaxes stating that Gómez was “involved in drug trafficking issues in Morocco”. With all the letters.
The presenter and director of the gathering, instead of interrupting her, correcting her, verbally sanctioning her or questioning her crazy theory, added: “You are leaving me very calm because everything is well-published.”
Scandal
The video achieved one million views in 72 hours on Youtube, was trading topic in Twitter and ended up scaring Distrito TV, which on November 28 had to go out of its way. Eurico Campano tried to wash his face by assuring that he said that everything was “published” because it had appeared in “third-party French regional media that broadcast fakes”.
Pilar Baselga apologized in what was her last intervention on the channel, since she was relieved by the leadership of Distrito TV. Of course, the tertullian continued to launch hoaxes in Telegram and other social networks. In March of this year, Begoña Gómez, annoyed by this hoax, sued against Campano, Baselga, The Untouchables and District TV because the aforementioned affirmations “can be clearly classified as crimes of insults and slander”. The complaint underlines the attitude of Campano, who acted “giving an apparent veracity and reaffirming what was stated.”
The complaint, as revealed by eldiario.es, says that “attributing false facts about their privacy to any person is in itself insulting and injures them because of it, but also in this case it is about harming Ms. Maria Begona Gomez individually and as the wife of the President of the Government and General Secretary of the Spanish Socialist Workers Party, indicating that He was born a man and that he changed his sex with the clear intention of offending his honor”.
Begoña Gómez asks for 100,000 euros and a public apology.
Distrito TV sources explain to Informalia that Eurico Campano has been fired and The Untouchables, which was broadcast in prime time from Monday to Friday, has been canceled and replaced by a program that goes from weekly to daily, The world to Red, led by the owner of the channel himself, Jesús Ángel Rojo.
The editor, owner of the local Madrid newspapers The district, has tried to expand the signal of its channel (Valencian Community, Castilla-La Mancha, Galicia, Murcia, Aragon and the Canary Islands), seeks to cross the pond to Latin America and has made the decision “after the controversy has affected the portfolio of advertisers and the image of the channel”.
Distrito TV has recently signed up Daniel Lacalle, who leads Economix, and Luis del Pino, who presents With Spain around. In return, other communicators have been unsubscribed. It is the case of Javier Algarra, who was the first presenter of The Untouchables, o Carlos Cuesta, who left the signal after his signing by the Grupo Libertad Digital.
the world to red
This Tuesday, Distrito TV omitted its decision on Campano and Los untouchables, limiting itself to announcing the transfer of the world to red at the channel’s prime time to “convert it into its backbone” and consolidate it “as top-rated show among conservative audiences.
The rival of the cat into the water says that the truth “is not manufactured, but is told from the most absolute independence, thus representing freedom in pure essence, without complexes and totally independent of any political party, religious movement or lobby business, because only in this way has it been possible to confront the Spanish audiovisual duopoly and censorship”.
the world to red counts among his list of tertulians or regular guests with Luis del Pino, Jose Antonio Vera, Graciano Palomo, Carmen Tomás, Carlos Cuesta, Eduardo Inda, Teresa Gómez, Maibort Petit or the former minister José Luis Corcuera.
It should be remembered that Distrito TV, which was born in 2018 and is based in Alcorcón, incorporated the famous businessman into its shareholders last year Felix Revuelta, owner of Naturhouse and investor in this signal after having tried to launch another conservative audiovisual project that was unsuccessful, The seventh.
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