Breathe
By Patricia Ríos Ulloa, Sonora journalist with experience in coverage of cultural, legislative and government policy issues.
It sounds simple: it was only two days that I spent with Talina Fernandez, but enough to sow in me a degree of admiration and gratitude.
My friend and colleague Rosy Oviedo and I formed the so-called Dúo Dinámico (Dynamic Duo) of the print media El Sonorense when we went to Mexico City to conduct a series of interviews with people in the artistic world. We were young, very young, just out of college. Rosy was the reporter and I was the photojournalist. So we decided to go without an appointment, but with the illusion of knowing how the operational processes of Televisa's Noticieros ECO and, of course, Siempre en Domingo were.
The first thing we managed to do was to enter ECO, with all the restrictions and suggestions of not disturbing, being serious and cautious. But they did not count on the fact that in the corridors we met the Lady of the Good Word, Talina Fernandez.
If we had planned it, it might not have happened; one of the Dynamic Duo's dreams was to meet their favorite driver, which seemed unattainable.
She entered the office and we followed her to request an interview, two minutes later Talina Fernandez received us with a big hug and knowing that we were reporters of a newspaper of the wrongly called "province" (Hermosillo), but with great disposition and kindness.
We sat with her, we talked, we had a drink that I don't remember, but whatever it was, it was surely so pleasant because the lady with her attitude was confirming to us two new reporters that we could fulfill some professional desires. Talina showed us that she wanted to push us and make our trip more productive: she made it easier for us to walk the halls of ECO, we could have direct contact with some presenters and, if that wasn't enough, the entrance the following weekend to the Siempre en Domingo forum.
We saw and talked with Paco Stanley, the young Murrieta, Toño de Valdez and several others.
We went back to Talina to thank her for her attention and she invited us to her house to talk about our work as reporters.
The next day we were at her residence in Bosques de las Lomas sitting in her living room having a snack and talking. In the inter, he spoke to his son Coco so we could meet, while Mariana did not leave her room because she had had work the day before and was resting.
She let us ask all sorts of questions... we took as many pictures as we wanted and she made us feel very comfortable. She referred to us as her "little reporter friends from Hermosillo", and on several occasions she told us that she enjoyed the presence of young, active and hard-working women communicators.
We had appointments with some show business celebrities and we proceeded to say goodbye when she told us: "wait, I will give you the name of the person you will look for at the entrance of Televisa and who will take you to the Siempre en Domingo program, they already know that you will do all the interviews you want and you can walk through the aisles whenever you want so that the artists do not leave you, but you can also see them from the audience". Our faces fell, we were overcome with emotion and it was the last moment we saw her.
Thus we arrived at Siempre en Domingo, where we also applauded standing up when we were told to do so, we lived the experience, but it also gave us the opportunity to make those two weeks in Mexico City worthwhile; we got a good number of exclusive interviews with Raúl Velasco, Lucía Méndez, Yoshio, Alejandra Guzmán, Miriam Hernández, among others.
In two days I met an extraordinary person, intelligent, interesting, jovial, but above all a great woman, nice, natural; detached in every sense, of her time, of her professional experience, a person who observed, was interested in others, shared and solved. We met a generous and helpful person. A human being who did not need more than 24 hours to show what he was and what he was worth. As when a button is enough for the sample.
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