The workers of TV Ciudad rejected “emphatically” the episode that occurred last Friday, when Secretary of the Presidency Álvaro Delgado “rebuked and threatened” the journalist from MVD Noticias Macarena Vico.
“Beyond the apologizethe attitude of the hierarch represented a detriment to the work of our colleaguewho asked timely and respectful questions on a topic of notorious public interest”, says a statement released by several media workers on social networks on the night of this Tuesday the 13th.
The journalist asked him about the modifications to the decree on cigarette packaging that enabled the sale of soft boxes. After the interview, Delgado told him: “They send you, huh”, after another sentence that is inaudible according to the video uploaded by TV Ciudad.
In his opinion, this fact occurred “in the context of growing stigmatization” by “first government figures”What do they seek “discredit” the task they perform.
In this way, the workers expressed concern about what they consider a “confusion” about their role “on the part of the political spectrum.” “We feel that lately we have been in the middle of a political dispute that transcends us and we do not want to be part”They stated through the letter.
Finally, they vindicated their professional work and technical suitability, “regardless of the editorial line that TV Ciudad hasLike all media.
Communiqué from those of us who work at TV Ciudad, after a series of events that involve us. pic.twitter.com/u9SIwsNg19
– Martin Rodriguez (@Tinchorgz) September 13, 2022
