This newspaper has fired Fernando Savater, and I feel sorry for him, but there are also things that bother me.
I write by allusions, as a newspaper employee, and I don't feel like writing about work things at all, almost less than working, but I follow a piece of advice, simple but not easy to follow, that another great man, Carlos Boyero, gave me on how to write columns : "Do not cut yourself".
So I'll say it: I think Savater has been unfair and inelegant, and those of us who have always read him are not used to that with him, but rather the opposite.
Readers and colleagues deserved another farewell.
He knows, and he has not clarified it well, that he could have been saying here what he thought until he retired, like Vargas Llosa, who was grateful for always being able to write what he wanted.
But I don't know who hopes to repeatedly expose the company where he works in public and have no consequences.
Like a footballer who complains in every game that everyone on his team is terrible except him and that the club sucks.
It is simply not true that he was the only one who criticizes the Government, here more people do it, from the honorary president on down.
He also knows, and does not say it, that this newspaper is plural.
Then there is the editorial line, which you will like more or less, but it is legitimate, reasoned and respectable, unless you are a prophet of the apocalypse, of course.
In any case, opinion is a small part of the newspaper, the most important part is information, and reducing the work of its journalists to a caricature is an insult to intelligence, because everyone works without thinking for a minute a day on the line. editorial, but in giving news, and they defend their independence tooth and nail, although Savater may not always have been interested or concerned with all governments.
If he wants, we'll have a txakoli and I'll tell him.
This job is already difficult enough and Spain is already exalted enough to contribute to all that evil stuff of conspiracies, good and bad, and that here we are all sellouts and that this is a dictatorship and things that it is impossible for anyone intelligent to believe. As the.
Then the champions of freedom who play ball are very funny.
Enric González was told in
El Mundo
in 2018: “From now on, Spain and bulls.”
He's gone.
El Mundo
, by the way, has fired Jaime Peñafiel, and I imagine that some of its journalists are trembling: now they are firing you for spreading delirious and conspiratorial hoaxes.
Others will be delighted, in all newsrooms there is everything.
In 2018, ABC
's opinion chief
responded, during the day, to a column by David Gistau sent early in the afternoon about freedom of expression, due to a work by ARCO about Catalan independentists.
Gistau then also left.
I don't know if Savater will now go to a right-wing newspaper, if so he will freak out, for the most part everyone thinks the same.
With some exceptions, there are days when you can't tell the columnists apart if you don't look at the signature.
Spain is the only major European country without a serious and sensible national right-wing newspaper of reference, we have missed it for years.
On the other hand, if despite its natural defects this newspaper did not exist, imagine it, this would be an informational banana republic and Savater would be the first to want to invent it, if only to be able to rant about it.
The good thing is that in a crazy right-wing newspaper he will have a vast field to go against the current, as he likes, and it will be a pleasure to see him unmask their nonsense, and what they keep silent about, and if he tells them in public how bad they are it will be worthy to see how they will applaud him.
I'm looking forward to reading you, as always.
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