October twelfth. The parade and military parade is now (since 1987) called the ‘National Holiday’, years ago it was hailed as ‘Hispanic Day’ and previously it was hailed as ‘Race Day’.
TVE1 started its ‘Telediario’ at 3pm. with these words: “The Deputy Head of Government was booed and berated upon his arrival and at the end of the parade.». As the camera focused on him throughout the informative story, they placed a sign that read:Insult to Pedro Sánchez». They had also added the following headlines to TVE1’s live coverage of the parade a few hours earlier: “Pedro Sánchez was welcomed with whistles and boo». And the sound of screams, curses, curses reached us clearly, that is, they did not cover it, did not try to hide it so that we would not hear it. Journalist Xabier CastleThe on-air commentator stated: «This shouting and whistling fashion started with Zapatero. Now with Sánchez this situation has become even more intense. Let’s listen, let’s listen!». And later, when his colleagues at ‘La Hora de la 1’ asked him about this noisy fight, filled with piercing whistles, he noted: «Yes, brass music was played and ‘Txapote vote for you!’ A polyphonic choir was formed with their shouts.». Ah! What a delightful retranche, hinting at the ‘windy music’ of the whistling crew and the inclusion of the polyphonic choir ‘Let Txapote vote for you!’ give more energy to the fight Sánchez. So TVE chose not to mute what was going on or turn down the volume so we couldn’t hear anything. It’s a television attitude that I applaud. Wanting to cover up the truth is cheating. It would be wiser to show and highlight what is happening. Loud anger, accentuated by microphones and cameras, and even touches of humour, normalizes ‘summarizing’. It dilutes the acid.
I really like these brush strokes Xabier Castle. Finally, at the end of the event, he noticed the ‘cavalry’ of the Royal Guard and exclaimed: «Sparks of sun and silver fly from the pores of these shells». Ah! Fortes read these verses well Ruben Dario: «Sparks under the golden sun/this blue crust of the sky is bathing». This point of the poem became a valuable and rare detail, a ‘finezza’, after such a tremendously noisy, polyphonic chorale.