Breathe
By Susana Moscatel
Like many of you, yesterday with the coverage of the sad passing of Talina Fernandez we got to see many of her programs, highlights and of course, legendary coverage, being without a doubt the report on the assassination of Luis Donaldo Colosio the one that stood out the most in many media. Talina was working in Tijuana at that time, she had the report of the agglomeration and the good mood of the candidate that fateful day in Lomas Taurinas. When she had to report to Jacobo Zabludovsky the terrible news of the assassination she was careful, she was a reporter of absolute credibility, she was a sensitive human being who knew she was giving terrible information that would mark the future of the country. She was everything she had to be at the most difficult moment of all.
Yesterday, I had to be on live television precisely in the minutes in which we already knew that bad news about Talina Fernandez was coming. We knew she was in a very serious condition, that she had been taken to the emergency room shortly before, we even had the diagnosis, but we were not going to pronounce ourselves on her sad departure until it was official. Until we knew it was a fact and not speculation. On television those seconds pass like eternity, a live report whose conclusion you don't have yet and you are already on the air. At that moment it came to my mind precisely how Talina had handled that kind of situation. I remembered her clarity. Her precision. Her way of giving context. We remembered on air her trajectory, hoping for the best but preparing for the worst. And yes, at that moment came the official confirmation. We said goodbye then to La Dama del Buen Decir with respect and with something I would never have imagined, with one more learning from Talina, moments after she left this world.
