Is there a clothing code on TVE?The appearance of this reporter opens the debate

The appearance of a TVE journalist in Extremadura during a live information from the regional public chain has opened an important debate on social networks about the existence or not of a clothing code for professionals that appear on the screen.This is Javier Serrano, whose image has even caused those that complaints from the Free TVE platform to the director of content and informative of RTVE, Esteve Crespo.

The reporter in question reported from the Cervantes de Mérida school of the important damages that had caused in their facilities the heavy rains that fell strongly over the provinces of Badajoz, Cáceres and Huelva, mainly in recent days.And he did dressed in a tracksuit jacket and a very long beard that stood out widely from his mask.

"Can a reporter give this image? Does the public television style manual follow?"."Neither the style manual nor the image direction nor the common sense advise that public television give this image in its news," said the TVE Free platform citing Esteve Crespo.An idea to which other users joined asking for minimal standards for all who appear on the screen in public media.

Other viewers, on the contrary, disagreed in this regard and pointed out that the important thing was not their image but that it "correctly complied with their" informative work.Just as there is a department in many programs that selects the clothing of its presenters in the study, apparently there is no written code about the image of the reporters, beyond common sense.But it is also true that in some private chains these details are taken care of and the professionals involved in the news rarely appear without a jacket or tie.