For Sopenilla
At this point in history, and more in the case of a memorial, the sequence of events is slightly less than family. It was half past six in the afternoon of February 23, 1981 when the country was attending yet another military intervention in public life for two centuries. By then, new information technologies were limited to a couple of television channels, a few newspapers that gave greater variety of colors to reporters today and, fortunately, an open audio line in connection with studies of the SER. Through this loophole, the radio was able to endorse such immediacy that currently seems to have lost to the network. Tejero
had taken over the House, but the news was equally outside the Chamber. Secured direct line to the Carrera de San Jerónimo, makers of Gran Vía decided to move his checkers. Eugenio Fontan, general director of the SER, and Tomas Varela, his deputy, decided to close the door entrance of the building in anticipation that was taken by the rebels, as happened in RTVE. both located in the study in which Juan Rodriguez performed in the early hours preceding "Talking Talking" - "From the overnight" - began recording the broadcast Luis Diaz and Rafael Mariano Revilla did get from the courts.
In line with the details that were given and technical writer, senior management met with the full-including those responsible for information, from Fernando Onega to Javier González Ferrari, in that study was organized coverage. On the one hand, Antonio Jimenez moved to a mobile unit to the Plaza de Neptuno live to tell what he saw from there, besides having a pending hearing everything that happens behind the doors of the Hotel Palace, where secretaries and other officers had set up his cabinet particular crisis. Furthermore, the station contacted the other regional newspapers to know the extent of the uprising.
Garcia, meanwhile, watched the reactions of their superiors while chewing spit data by teletype. Theoretically, he went on the air after midnight with "Extra." As the hour drew near, he asked Martin Thomas White, director of programs, and Fontan what happen that night. According to his version, the first urged him to "make a normal program for RNE, at 22.00 pm, with Congress already taken, had done 'Radio Gazette sports'. " However, another internal version, the information provided by Juan Rodriguez, points rather to the managers' responses were limited initially to await developments, and later, after 11, to discharge the obligation to conduct the program.
Del Hotel Palace in the street The fact is that, far from going home, Garcia went to the scene. Perched the car carrying the mobile unit, took the microphone from Antonio Jiménez and began to broadcast carousel-style sports. At this point, how could it be otherwise, interpretation tends to bifurcate between the desire for leadership and professional zeal.
Among his peers and subordinates, the move would be seen retrospectively as a pulse to the direction of the chain. Given the decision to dispense with his services for the development of stroke count, Garcia would have chosen not miss the chance to get firsts, relying on his good contacts in the military. In its justification, however, has assured himself that it was his refusal to make its sports space at the expense of what happened in Congress, he decided just to ignore directed by Martin Blanco.
Most likely, however, is that the two assumptions, each with its share of accuracy, not only tell half-truths, but honestly I do not lie. The direction of the chain was determined to prioritize what happened in Congress, making it hard to believe that Martin White plans to continue with regular programming. Garcia, meanwhile, was considered a journalist with enough race so as not to retreat to his office in that attitude.
In fact, later, had no shame in admitting that some of the coup leaders turned a blind eye to let you get the microphone. In any other, this would be a bravado, in Garcia, is something that should not be completely ruled out beforehand. According to his own testimony, to get him a captain of a unit of the National Police said: "Where are you going García, if there is no Pablete Pablo Pablito? Immediately, the same command looked the other way and let him pass. The truth is that, ultimately, both the BE as Garcia would be recognized for their work during the almost twenty hours-long process. But then, as now, the prestige in the public tended to dissociate the journalist's personal merit and esteem for the company they worked. Fontan was enough disagreement with Cabanillas about their listeners to temporarily transform viewers. Tejero's coup was already history. The one on the air SuperGarcía was coming.
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