Rubén Gisbert, contributor to the Horizonte television program, was caught getting dirty with mud shortly before making a broadcast from Valencia, the area most affected by DANA.
The phenomenon DANA it whipped Spain mainly in Valencia, has become the main theme of news and programs on Spanish television.
In the midst of this media coverage of the weather event, a record appeared that went widely viral on social media and sparked great outrage among users.
The image had as its protagonist Rubén Gisbert I noticed he was caught jumping in the mud in one of the DANA affected areas. The reason? Look dirtier when you’re reporting for a TV show.
The controversy of the Spanish journalist who got muddy to do his office
Rubén Gisbert is a regular contributor to the Horizonte program, hosted by journalist Iker Jiménez, and these days he was covering live the floods caused by the meteorological phenomenon in Valencia.
As a video shows, while in one of the affected areas, Gisbert knelt in the mud and intentionally stained his pants just before the live feed with Horizonte began.
The act, as expected, caused a wave of criticism on the platforms, mainly due to the lack of ethics of the communicator. “I cry with Rubén Gisbert who throws himself on the ground to put mud on himself and appear to have done something more than take advantage of a tragedy. ‘You must be a formidable scoundrel,’ says one numerous comments from the register.
Iker Jiménez’s response
Shortly after the broadcast of Gisbert’s controversial act, the host of the Horizonte show condemned the events and said he was “perplexed”.
“The video of Rubén Gisbert, a person born in the affected area, made my day bitter. This taints the worthy work we do and we don’t deserve it. Jiménez wrote in his Account X (formerly Twitter) .
In a video he added to this post, the host stressed that he doesn’t give instructions to “get dirty or dramatic” for live shows. “Honestly, I don’t understand the meaning of what he did. I just spoke to him, stunned. So that? “I don’t understand if it was already stained with mud,” he added.
Ultimately, Jiménez hinted that he would not continue working with the journalist. “I will make the direct and recalcitrant decision to say ‘I can’t count on you, you’ve let me down.’ I was shocked when they sent it (the video) to me. Why exaggerate a little more? He will make his statement because it is his obligation, we will continue to help people,” he said.
What the Spanish journalist responded
Gisbert, for his part, He also tried to give his version of what happened making sure everything was one “smear campaign”.
“Yesterday I knelt in the mud in the middle of the connections we were making, yes. I did it so that the mud was visible on my knees even though I have been here for seven days in the mud, yes I did it,” he began to explain.
Shortly after, the communicator claimed that he had done this act so that there would be consistency between two connections, since one of them, which was recorded, occurred from a garage and it was covered of mud, while in the other he appeared without dirt on his clothes. “So that it doesn’t show that we’re not live, I did that.” he added.
"I was wrong, I’m sorry, I didn’t expect them to be so on top of me recording and orchestrating this," » he emphasized in front of the camera.
Source: Latercera
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