Television isn't what it used to be, but it endures. It is true that the platforms have taken screen share from the channels, that streaming is competing for audiences and that the audience is made up of boomers. But they are still essential to shape public opinion, more than you think, despite the fact that people confess that they get information from social networks. In the same way that the press still maintains the ability to construct stories, television has not lost its influence, even if it is contested by other news actors. Or do they not find it surprising that a sport like the Kings League, born in the modern age of Twitch and led by influencers of the last generation, has ended up on an old TV channel?
No one should be surprised that Pedro Sánchez has challenged Alberto Núñez Feijóo to hold a face-to-face every week on television, until the 23rd. If the PP raises as a slogan "Sánchez or Spain", now the candidate socialist corrects them and wants people to decide whether they prefer Sánchez or Feijóo. Or in other words, the Spain of Sánchez or the Spain of Feijóo. Up to six face to face proposals. Six like the bulls. The PP has responded that this is an eccentricity (the debates, not the bulls).
The candidates have received four formal invitations from Telecinco, Antena 3, RTVE and Prisa, and Sánchez has accepted them all, we will see if Feijóo will accept any of them. It will not be easy to hold two-way debates, because the Electoral Board would have to compensate the other formations so that they would not be harmed. But it is no less true that attending a couple of verbal confrontations between the two candidates to preside over the country is necessary, among other reasons because they have not even been able to debate in Congress, as the popular candidate is not a deputy.
It is possible that Sánchez, who is behind in the polls, is more interested in making a public pulse than Feijóo. In addition, he is used to the medium. Many do not remember that in 2014, in order to make himself known, he intervened in Planeta Calleja, which made him descend a 70-meter wind turbine and then climb the cliff of Ifac. Now the challenge would be another, even more risky.
