They accuse ETB of turning information into propaganda tools for the employers and the PNV.
- The EITB news this Tuesday, March 30, has provoked the anger of many people. Social media attests to this. He has also complained about the presence of many public television workers, as well as the trade union sections of LAB and ELA. The first has pointed out that "it is not acceptable that Basque Television should become a television space that should belong to all", while the second, since the announcement of the closure of all non-essential activities, has been a fundamental effort for the Basque Government and the employers' organization Confebask to disseminate their opinion to the public.
Following the mandate of the president of the Government of Spain, Pedro Sánchez, the paralysis of all non-essential work – contrary to the opinion of Confebask and the Basque Government – on Monday afternoon, the ETB2 news reports met Eduardo Zubiaurre, president of the employer Confebask.
On social media, many people denounced the treatment given to the issue on public television, as you can see here. Some users have also included the beginning of the information.
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— J Estarrona Elizondo (@Concisen_Estarrona) March 30, 2020
Many have been outraged, including EITB workers, who have complained. For example, members of the LAB trade union section have criticized the management that "buying and selling the PNV's speech completely, rejecting everyone's discourse, is unacceptable. If it is wrong to make propaganda about the party that rules a public media, inviting the protagonists of the same string, rejecting the voices of the opposition, what to say about the presenter of Teleberri 1. Instead of giving information, yesterday he expressed his opinion, showing a tremendous lack of professionalism." According to the note, Monday was no exception. "Instead of giving impartial information, we are used to listening and constantly seeing the PNV discourse, concealing the opposite. That is enough.
EITB workers congregated in ALS have denounced that the voice of those who support the closure of essential activities "has been underestimated" on public television, "as has been done with the voice of those who have already called for such a decision". They have denounced that "at all times they have sought to generate a stream of opinion favorable to the theses of the employers' organization Confesbask and the Basque Government". As they have indicated, "the conditions under which socio-health professionals and a large number of people from key sectors are being avoided, but there is no problem in sending an apocalyptic message such as the one being carried out by business organisations and the Basque Government".
The journalism professor at Universidad Txema Ramírez de la Piscina points out the following: "The ETB news line is more aligned than ever with the interests of the PNV and the employers. What's going to happen in that house for the voices to rise from within? What? Where is the administrative board? Where's the editorial board? Where trade unions and professionals? Where? ".
Journalists Oihan Vitoria: "From the journalist to the journalist. This is unacceptable, I am convinced that it annoys many EiTB professionals. Start the new newsroom with a supposedly loaded editorial, using the language of the employers without filters, not to mention a single source, leaving the unions aside."
In the search for messages with the word "confesbask", the reader will find many citizen reactions that express their indignation at what was the informative of March 30.
