Supercopa Barcelona

The Advisory Board of RTVE in Catalonia (CARTVE) believes that the channel 24 hours of TVE manipulated images of the incident between Mourinho and Tito Vilanova. Remember that it is not the first case of severe bias in public television. The Advisory Board of RTVE in Catalonia (CARTVE) has ensured that the channel 24 hours of TVE manipulated images of the incident between the coach of Real Madrid, Jose Mourinho, and second coach of F.C. Barcelona, Tito Vilanova, the return of the Super Cup match. The CARTVE, in a statement, considered a serious mistake treatment that gave the channel 24 hours of TVE to the incident between both technicians on August 17 in the stadium of FC Barcelona.It is – has added this Council – an information manipulation clearly intentional, which roundly fails the criterion of informative impartiality that public service television must comply rigorously. Before these events, the CARTVE has sent a letter to the Acting President of RTVE, Manuel Esteve, which asks responsibilities for what happened and also asks for responsible for the drafting of the news and its broadcast to assume responsibilities, as well as a public rectification of the error, which has no explanation or apology.

The CARTVE recalled in his statement that this is not the first occasion in which egregious errors in the treatment of sports news which are characterized by a severe lack of partiality in TVE. This Council cites as an example of these errors the omission in the live transmission of the official anthem of State Spanish in the final of the Copa del Rey after the beeps which were produced by amateurs of May 13, 2009, on the Mestalla field or the transmission and partisan comments during the semi-final of the Champions Leagueclearly contrary to the F.C. Barcelona, among others. The CARTVE also recalls that RTVE took a series of measures such as cessation of the TVE sports j, in the first case, and apologies, in the second request. Source of the news: the Advisory Board of RTVE in Catalonia said that TVE manipulated information from the Supercopa