Opinion | Estrella Morente is wrong to use OT to defend bullfighting

Estrella Morente was wrong last night at the Operación Triunfo gala when she made a plea in favor of bullfighting and bullfighting during her interpretation of Back next to Nia. As much as Enrique Morente's daughter rose to fame with this song (in 2006 thanks to the homonymous film by Pedro Almodóvar), we must not forget that the original composer of the tango is Carlos Gardel. And hopefully the controversy would end there.

Estrella Morente has made a mistake because OT is broadcast on a public television network that, as such, it should remain neutral on issues of this nature. And that was the claim: neither TVE nor the producer of Operación Triunfo knew before the live broadcast of the sixth OT gala that Estrella Morente (married to the bullfighter Javier Conde) was going to make such a defense of bullfighting. Unacceptable disrespect.

Neither the bullfighter kills the bull, nor the bull kills the bullfighter

Neither the bullfighter kills the bull, nor the bullfighter kills the bull, nor does the bull kill the bullfighter, both risk their lives in the same random game. don't traffic with his soul, don't traffic with his soul, don't spare the life of the brave bull in the bullring, which is a 'cowardly killer'. Steal his death from the bull, alone and in his agony.

Verses by José Bergamín sung by Estrella Morente at the OT gala on February 23, 2020

Neither the bullfighter kills the bull nor the bull kills the bullfighter? Forgives? There is no need to enter statistical data about the percentage of runs that result in the survival of the animal. Let's go to the basics: no, the bull and the matador do not play on an equal footing because (does it really need to be said?) the matador has a choice but the bull does not. The game has quite a bit of chance, Estrella. Nobody gives the bull the possibility of not play life in the ring, Star.

The one you've messed up, Maialen, with your criticism of bullfighting

This is what happens when you insert into a public string the random and show component of a realitythe devirtualization of logic and common sense. In theory, this Morente intro in defense of bullfighting would respond to the spontaneous words emitted by one of the contestants, Maialen, very critical of bullfighting. This was what she said in a program that, let us remember, is broadcast live 24 hours a day:

“Hosts, it is that it is very Nazi. Oysters you have to be very psychopathic a lot », he said. And later he added. «And on top of that they come to you and tell you that he gives a lot of money. I don't know the figures because I don't know them, but if you make a comparison of what bullfighting costs me, cleaning up shit to be able to support my life and they take money from me and put it into the bloody bullfighting, because they take it from my taxes",

Maialen has the right to express her opinion, Estrella does not. Maialen has agreed to be part of a racket that, for a few months, has carte blanche to record and disseminate everything the young woman says and does within the academy where she lives isolated from the world. An important part of the appeal of OT (as an audiovisual business) lies in the exposure of the different personalities of the contestants who meet at the contest.

Estrella Morente, for his part, has agreed to perform a song and be present for a few minutes in a live television program. The only thing that was asked of him was that he sing and, if anything, that he give words of encouragement to the contestants. But make no mistake:  el scrubbing of the bulls, without a doubt, is a win-win for all.

Estrella Morente gets polished. TVE, OT and its producer, Gestmusic Endemol Shine, get an audience and a media hodgepodge. Any criticism of the violation of neutrality by the public entity is defeated in advance with the statements by Tinet Rubira, director of the show's production company: "It caught us completely by surprise." The great defeated, the usual: common sense. Everyone wins from the play and the only one who keeps losing (and dying) is the bull.

All for the show. Show must go on.

Not Calamari.


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