“The quilombo that this program is putting together, I rarely saw it. I just received a threat in court that I did not hear alone. I had the foresight to put it on loudspeaker,” he said. Jorge Rial last Monday, almost about the closing of “Argenzuela”, the daily program that has been leading in the afternoons of C5N for two weeks.
“I have rarely heard someone so excited. I was going to attend to him later, but I decided to do it now. He didn’t even say ‘hello’, he started with insults. I don’t like the threat thing. We all know who threatens. I was on that side for a long time and they enjoyed what I did, today they suffer. It’s recorded just in case, but I’m not going to make a scandal out of it,” Rial concluded on his program that day.
But a few minutes later, in dialogue with Paul Duggan on Radio 10, he gave details of the talk and confirmed that the interlocutor was Daniel Vila, his former boss and president of Grupo América. “Indeed I was threatened by Daniel Villa, one of the owners of América TV and Edenor. It was in the Argenzuela cut by C5N, surely annoyed by the information that spoke of problems in its programming, ”the journalist wrote on Twitter at the same time. “I immediately put the call on speaker. The serious thing is that the threat came from someone who should practice freedom of expression and to inform, “he added to the thread on the bird’s network.
The witnesses to whom Rial alluded, their companions on the set of “Argenzuela”, confirmed the interlocutor and discussion content. “She is going to tell everything on the show, she is going to speak only there,” they told NEWS. Rial, who after the insults had assessed that “the foam will surely go down and we will be able to chat”, started the broadcast on C5N on Tuesday the 12th with an unfiltered story: “I attended and the first thing I heard was ‘you’re a son of a bitch, the biggest son of a bitch. It was at 4:37 p.m. He insults me and then says ‘I’m going to go beat the shit out of you now’. That repeated it.”
“Then he started telling me ‘failure’. Maybe he was talking about ‘TV Nostra‘. Yes, it was a failure of me and the channel. I had the dignity to leave like a gentleman when I felt I was failing, “he continued, referring to the cycle in the nights of America that sealed his departure from the channel after more than two decades.
“He also told me ‘I killed your hunger‘. Horrible phrase. You didn’t kill anyone’s hunger, I worked my ass off, doing one, two, three programs. What he said is derogatory. I know he has that thought with everyone else. And then he told me something funny, ‘cocksucker, you sucked my dick for 20 years,’ “Rial detailed, closing:” If this was not a threat, what was it? For him I am not a journalist, I am Jorge Rial, the type I saw every day. But yes, believe it or not, I’m a journalist,” he remarked.
The Vilas, Daniel and their son Agustín, whom Rial also pointed to, preferred silence so as not to give more press to the issue. Rial had cataloged them as “alpha males”. “There was another violent event in America with me. The day I took office, Agustín Vila invited me to fight punching”. A crossing that they would have stopped, according to the former “Intruders”, Luis Majul and Alejandro Fantino: The first one left the channel angry and rivals Vila from the LN+ screen. The other could leave America before the end of the year, part of the intern in the channel that Rial undressed and would have annoyed the owner of the group.
“What information bothered you? That Alejandro Fantino is leaving at the end of the year. I confirm it, he can’t take it anymore and he wants to leave. There are already Fantino’s lawyers to end the contract at the end of the year. And then there was the focus group of the program of Florence Pena and all programs. Flor was left alone and some already say that she does not make it to the end of the year. Others say that she was bothered by the photo of her son, Agustín Vila, on vacation in Ibiza. He is an older, public person and we took the photo from social networks,” he reviewed from “Argenzuela”, which at that time scratched the three rating points on the C5N screen and beat America on TV from the news on cable. open (it was located only behind Telefe and El Trece).
Something that Rial himself highlighted on Twitter (he won the fight with “intruders“, the gossip show that he invented) although he repeats that he does not have revengeful spirits: “I do not do it for power or for money, or for revenge. There was a cool claim thing,” he explained before his return with daily program (before I used to do “tv overdose” on the same screen).
A search for vindication in which he found the tune of the rating and highlighted the solidarity of some colleagues, including Flor Peña, figure of America, who accessed the mobile with “Argentina” Although he claimed that “you had me as a daughter”, but then replied to the note on his program.
“This woman has ovaries. And she also makes sure that no one touches her, ”commented Rial, who expressed her anger at the silence of FOPEA (Argentine Journalism Forum) on the subject, but thanked SiPreBA (Press Union of Buenos Aires), and reflected the journalistic crack in a crossroads with Waldo Wolff, president of the Committee on Freedom of Expression of the Chamber of Deputies: “If I were called Wiñazki or Lanatayou throw yourself from the window of the Congress”, answered Rial furiously.
Since Americasome journalists referred to the issue, alleging that there locks without pressure. But the harshest response came from louis ventura, with whom Rial had sought a rapprochement weeks ago, acknowledging his apology. “Today they stand as champions of ethics arguing threats when they got tired of threatening, extorting, stabbing and attacking whatever obstacle came their way throughout their career and in their lives,” wrote the entertainment journalist.
“I understand that this is the price of the salary of fear. I never thought you would end up a slave to the tyrant,” Rial retweeted the statement. Consulted by NEWS, Ventura marked his annoyance. “We can meet on a corner, in court or in the neutral program that he wants, I’m tired. I thought recently that I had met a friend again, but he only used me in a selfie to play nice.”
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