Some images broadcast during a live broadcast by a reporter from the RTVE morning show Mañaneros (La 1) showed this Monday the body of Álvaro Prieto, the 18-year-old soccer player from Córdoba who has been missing since October 12, in front of the police and The young man’s family knew this information and included a sign with the words “Breaking News” and “Exclusive” in the picture. RTVE became a trending topic on X/Twitter within minutes of this broadcast. The social network is full of protests from viewers of the public channel and its users, and the messages reflecting the moment are gradually disappearing from the social network. After the controversy on the Internet, the host of the television show, Jaime Cantizano, apologized a few minutes later for making this live connection.
We apologize for the images we made available live on the program “Mañaneros” on La 1. Images that should never have been broadcast and were removed from the digital broadcast of the show. We apologize again to Álvaro Prieto’s family. pic.twitter.com/GySPGoqvkX
– Mañaneros (@MananerosTVE) October 16, 2023
One of the show’s hosts interrupted to make way for her live reporter to broadcast some images that showed some legs between two train cars. The clothes he wore on the day of the disappearance of the young man from Córdoba, white sneakers, beige trousers and a green shirt, correspond to what is seen in the broadcast. The reporter pointed out that before the start of the live broadcast, he had called the young man’s friends to check whether Prieto was wearing shoes of the same color on the day of his disappearance, as they were in a short shot taken with a zoom showed that the space cameraman went to the car. “You’ll see it soon,” the reporter himself tells the viewer afterward, referring to the images of the body that the TVE team found between the cars.
In the apology that Cantizano made a few minutes later, he explained: “At that moment, due to the speed and the narrative, we offered live images that should never have been broadcast.” These apologies are addressed first of all to the family of the deceased. These images were apparently removed from the digital broadcast of the show, never to be seen again. “We have handed over all audiovisual material to the criminal investigation department that could be helpful in the investigation of the case,” commented the moderator in front of the camera.
At the request of this newspaper, the communications department of the public institution explains that for the moment it prefers not to make any further explanations about the intention with which the room connected live to transmit the images of the corpse and the fact that they The images will only be passed on to the police after they have been broadcast. The public broadcaster refers to the statement issued at two o’clock in the afternoon in which it apologizes again: “RTVE deeply regrets the images broadcast live on the Mañaneros program this morning as part of the investigation into the disappearance of Álvaro Prieto. “Some images that should never have been broadcast. After apologizing live, the program now made all audiovisual material in its possession available to the police and ordered its digital broadcast to be stopped immediately. RTVE has also launched an internal investigation,” the text says.
We must stop the reproduction on social networks of the images broadcast this morning on TVE with an explicit mention of Álvaro Prieto. The confirmation of the hypothesis that it is Álvaro’s lifeless body is not only gratuitous, but adds even more to the pain of his family @Police
– Paco Lobatón (@paclobaton) October 16, 2023
But dozens of viewers recorded the moment on their cell phones and shared it on social networks. Paco Lobatón himself, host of the missing persons program “Who Knows Where?” on TVE in the 1990s, asked the police through his X/Twitter account to remove the reproduction of the images broadcast in the chain on social networks. “The confirmation of the hypothesis that it is Álvaro’s lifeless body is not only gratuitous, but adds even more to the pain of his family,” commented the journalist.
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