Pepa Bueno closes TVE's News with six seconds of silence and a reflection: "Don't be in a hurry to see what happens next"

Pepa Bueno has once again turned the closing of TVE's Telediario 2 into a moment for reflection. The journalist surprised viewers this Tuesday with a six-second silence before explaining the reason for a pause that, in just a few moments, achieved precisely what she wanted to talk about: capturing the audience's attention.

“My silence felt long to you, as six seconds have passed,” Bueno began, before reflecting on how we have changed our way of consuming content. “We watch increasingly short videos, listen to accelerated audios, and have become accustomed to something always happening,” said the presenter, who focused on attention increasingly disputed by applications, platforms, advertisers, and televisions.

The journalist linked this reflection to the PISA report analyses that warn about the loss of attention span and proposed, precisely, to stop in the face of that dynamic. “We are going to leave with an image that will not move,” she explained before making a final request to viewers: “Don't be in a hurry to see what happens next.”

With this deliberate pause, Pepa Bueno concluded the news program by reclaiming something as simple as it is unusual in current television: silence and the ability to wait. “And now, good night. Thank you for being there,” the presenter concluded.