Remember how in its fiercest radio competition with each time a new edition of Protagonists He was running to his program’s team to ask them: “What has the Canalla de Iñaki done today?” As the Olmo argues, “without competition nothing made sense.” A competition that did not prevent this living radio legend in Spain from asking him in the midst of a live interview with José María Aznar to also give his hearing to his competitor of the SER chain when the then president of the Government decided to boycott the media of the Misar Group (editor of El País). The memory and the powerful voice of both “rivals and yet friends” filled the auditorium of the National Library on Tuesday on the occasion of a cycle of meetings entitled Journalism, the profession goes inside.
Both looked at the recent past of the medium where they left an imprint that has permeated in several generations of journalists and, more importantly, in millions of listeners. And they also looked up with the moderation of the political scientist and collaborator of El País Cristina Monge and the company of the director of the Book Fair of Madrid, Eva Orue, towards the crossroads that the trade of journalism faces for its survival in democratic societies. For Gabilondo, the key is to reverse the growing social disaffection. “And to recover that trust, the focus must be placed in the direction of the human being. They accuse him of accompanying politics on his trip to the fifth pine. I do not doubt that politicians work for people, many do it, but they forget their particular war that they have to take care of the common. When the common disappears, the common sense disappears, and when that happens, everything happens in a manicomium. displacing from that observation point we are lost. ”
Totally retired from the microphone for years – Gabilondo (San Sebastián, 82 years old) in 2021 and the elm (Ponferrada, 88 years), in 2013 -, the live narrators of a country that recovered democracy and advanced in their consolidation among all kinds of obstacles, such as the violence of Etarra terrorism that marked both, continue to look at the evolution of a society to which they served for a society to which they served for a society. “We have never known how to disagree, who expresses an opinion different from ours seems to us that it is silly or has a bad intention, and that has gone worse,” Gabilondo said. “Talking about the media is to talk about financial panic right now. And secondly, the crisis of trust is clamorous in authority, teachers, politicians … accompanied by a paradox: many believe the first Cantamañanas that appears ahead. All that makes the exercise of communication very difficult.”
Iñaki Gabilondo arrived with Today To break the hegemony of Luis del Olmo, who says that his rival “has been the radio, remains the radio and will be the radio within 200 years.” Del Olmo claims to have loved more to the radio “knowing that he in front of him had a very serious and very difficult guy to unseat.” Before which, Gabilondo responds: “This man must always believe, except when he talks about me. The radio has to open the window and smell what happens, and no one smelled before Luis the change in society to take an unexpected time conversations that were on the street and had no space yet in the program.” After many years of rivalry, Gabilondo remembers that they discovered themselves as axes of a curious phenomenon. “We discovered that the radio went from being something to walk around the house to have a huge weight in the political reality of Spain, despite which we did not fight among us. And we began to feel representatives of a small example of coexistence.”
