For those who would like to see them, the Who is there? This Thursday gave clues almost from the start. First of all, Benedicta Sánchez appeared in the afternoon magazine TVG. The protagonist of or it burns was accompanied by an image of one of his interviews in The voice of Galicia with this title: “I am not a person, I am a spirit”. First clue. The second came in memory of the death of Josefa de Bastavales, the historical tambourine who inspired the Missing by Manu Chao. “I am completely sure that celestial music will benefit greatly from the sound of tambourine of Josefa,” said one of the presenters, Marcial Mouzo, enthusiastically. After these two journeys, a direct connection to the afterlife seemed almost a logical step. And it happened right after.
“Before moving on to advertising, we mentioned that this afternoon we are accompanied by our trusted medium, who is already in the middle of a session, because we opened consultations with her but we did not know that there was someone from the public who wanted to have a session . We see at the moment how they come into contact It was a few minutes after five in the afternoon, the start of special protection hours, when Raquel Atanes, another. presenter, set the bait for the sequel, Miriam González – the trusted medium, or “head”, as she was also billed – was shown on the set’s couch alongside Teresa. the person from the public who had requested this session.
As Atanès speaks, we see the two women without sound. They hold hands tightly. Miriam, from the front, seems affected. He closes his eyes and takes a deep breath as his hand visibly shakes. As they will tell us later, they are complete contact. But that will be later. Now… “Now we return to a more earthly world, where you also have to have a little bit of everything. We come back to the plus here, and here what do we have? Guaranteed fun, a little swaying and a little money!
Seven minutes later – after one of the competition phases and a report on a pony eaten by wolves – we return to Miriam. The reason for its return to a setting where it is common was the change of the moon from new to crescent. “It’s always… good things, they’re just beginnings. I want to start at the gym, a new relationship, open a business… on the new moon, we start it; In the crescent we do another ritual and we increase it. The medium came to make floral water and black salt, but ended up with a “spontaneous” session.
“I never do it, I don’t do these things like that, I do them in private,” Miriam said, trying to catch her breath. Previously, the third presenter, Juan Fuentes, explained that he was working “with Teresa, a friend of the audience, who told him that she had dreams about her deceased husband and we don’t know if they were premonitory or not “.
Taking advantage of the fact that Teresa was taking time to recover, Mouzo advocated for the skeptics and asked the medium to explain what had happened “so that those of us who don’t believe in it really can understand.” “Well, I contacted this lady’s husband. He gave me a message for her, he told me how he died…”
“He knew nothing about me or my husband…and he was right”
As the preparation of Florida’s water progresses, Fuentes goes looking for Teresa. He tells the audience that the woman was a widow eleven years ago and dreams of her husband; but there is something else. “I see it in person. When I have a disagreement with someone during the day, at night I wake up and see them. The presenter hesitates. “Could it be that you think you are awake and still dreaming?” “No, because I’m screaming and everything.”
Both approach the table where the preparation of water continues. Mouzo asks what happened a few minutes ago in “that three-way conversation” between her, Miriam and the deceased. “That I felt bad, because he was telling me the whole truth. Things about which I prefer to remain silent,” he tried to resolve in the face of the insistence of the questions. “Miriam knew nothing about me or my husband and she understood me well. “I just got it right.”
Mouzo continues to try to open a space for reason. She asks him for “something that we can reveal, a gesture, something” that would show him that she was speaking to her husband and not to another woman. “It was, it was. I held her hand – Miriam – and I felt like I was with my husband instead of her. Fuentes can no longer suppress an “Oysters!” » Teresa calls for a truce. “Don’t make me look like that, because I’m…”
The presenters take their foot off the accelerator and speak to the medium, who also shows signs of emotion. “Look how I’m doing.” She says that these contacts are “very strong” because of “the sensations they produce in me”, which is why “I usually do them remotely, by videoconference or something like that”. When it happens in person, “when I hold his hand, he conveys everything to me. Then I tell him what he passed on to me. Everything I feel.
It is then that Fuentes interrupts, remembers that the purpose of Miriam’s presence was to make this flowery water (“and the black salt”, which will be left for another time) and tells them that “if we interrupt, stay calm for as long as it takes, “We want people to feel comfortable here.” But there was still an epilogue. Miriam turned to Teresa, “You just have to give me his name again because I have to fire him.” » To the surprise of the presenters, he clarified: “Otherwise, the soul stays here. » “Yes, he is,” concluded the widow.
“Respect and professionalism”
Asked whether it was considered appropriate to broadcast the spiritualism session at a time considered to have reinforced protection, the management of the CRTVG defends the decision: “There is no problem with this type of content and even less so in Galicia, with a culture of death as deeply rooted and with traditions as that of Santa Compaña. “It’s also not the first time that subjects like this have been discussed on public or private television, nor that this type of person has been invited on a set.”
The company now finds one more justification: “The country’s main media have also highlighted in recent days a renewed interest in these issues, particularly on social networks, and what the “Who’s there?” It’s nothing more than being at the end of the street, with respect and professionalism.
The vision of the intercenter committee could not be more unfulfilled. Its president, Raquel Lema, believes that by “introducing witchcraft and spiritualism during protected hours”, the CRTVG “clearly shows its incapacity in the management of public service”. “Someone must demand accountability from those who must decide and control the content” because “the negligence and lack of judgment are total among the company’s top officials”, who not only authorize them “but justify or justify them defend”.
Who is there? It has been broadcast since 2020 in the afternoons on regional television. Co-produced by Tex 45 and EuroTV – owned by Vocento at the start of the program and now part of the iZen group – it is a clear example of the outsourcing of spaces against which the inter-center committee has called for the strike which is beginning this Monday. , October 7. The trigger was the removal of the morning shows from the public channel of the historic infotainment magazine In the magazine.
After more than 20 years on the air, To the magazine was replaced by a similar format, O Thermometerco-produced by Setemedia and Papaventos, the Galician subsidiary of La Cometa, a production company integrated into Eurostar Mediagroup, the conglomerate headed by Rosa María Díez Fernández, former advisor to Mariano Rajoy. For the committee, this policy “deepens the strategy of dismantling public media” while “wasting resources and facilitating the manipulation of information”.
