Iker Jiménez’s coverage of DANA in ‘Horizonte’ is being one of the most talked about topics this week. The communicator echoed in his space on Thursdays information that turned out to be false, which has generated numerous criticisms, threats of boycott on social networks and finally that a company, ING, withdraws its advertising.
The also presenter of ‘Fourth millennium’ He apologized for the incorrect information, although he nevertheless wanted to hold a mirror up to other journalists, who to a lesser extent had also issued data that was not accurate in the first moments of their coverage.
Between attacks and threats of boycott, Iker Jiménez has also received support and voices that have highlighted his ability to rectify and apologize for everything that has finally been confirmed to be incorrect. One of them has been Ana Rosa Quintana, who has taken advantage of the Manuel Marlasca in ‘TardeAR’ and the last hour of DANA in Valencia and Málaga to support his partner from Mediaset.
“I want to give my support to Iker Jiménez and Carmen Porter. You cannot use a company to restrict people’s freedom of expression,” he began by saying. “They wanted to carry out an operation like this house already experienced on one occasion (with the case of the rape of Carlota Prado in ‘GH’) and it has gone wrong for them. And I am glad that they withdraw all the accounts (from ING).”
The journalist was sympathetic to the mistakes made by the Cuatro presenter, after apologizing for them: “Sometimes things happen when you’re doing a live show, we all make mistakes. But Iker immediately came out to explain and apologize. The other thing seems like nonsense to me, so we give you our support, colleagues.”
