Luis Bello
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Xosé Ramón PousaVice Dean of Faculty, Information Sciences
University of Santiago de Compostela
I CONFESS I DID NOT AVOID HIM
"The audience increased, l was happy and the company, of course, was too. Luis no longer had a choice and it weighed on my conscience to have introduced him to an occupation that sooner or later would have consequences.
“'Don't tell your mother that you are a journalist; better than she believes you are a pianist in a brothel,' is the phrase I should have thrown on Luis Bello so he would understand what world he was putting himself into on the day he arrived at the radio station practically in shorts. But I didn’t dare. On the other hand, he looked at me as if he knew John Pulitzer’s maxim: ‘Accuracy is to a journalist what virtue is to a lady.’ I saw him so excited and with so many pent-up desires to create truths that I handed him a microphone at Antena 3 Radio, without paying attention to him being a minor. The drug began to take effect immediately. He boosted the news and stirred up listeners' responses. He was bound to the microphones and he charged basically nothing for his work. The audience increased, l was happy and the company, of course, was too. Luis no longer had a choice and it weighed on my conscience to have introduced him to an occupation that sooner or later would have consequences.
"One day he arrived at the radio station accompanied by his father. I did not know if that good man with the misfortune of a descendant came in peace or to demand his son’s pay. He was delighted. Everyone was happy. Luís was becoming a man. I always believed he was well gifted for journalism: he was impertinent, extraordinarily spirited, had a talent for exaggerating, and was convinced that he would learn soon enough how to pose directly even the most shameless questions. He had the ability to know how to listen to the many who could teach him something in that old building on the Rúa do Vilar and, within a few minutes, to put their teachings into practice. He progressed quickly. Without going through the Faculty, he knew that journalism is an easy occupation; it is a question of writing what others say. And he did it with talent. Now he no longer has a choice. He is not of the age where he can learn to play the piano, and to clear my conscience, I have only the consolation that his initiation phase lasted just two years and I can confess to all of you that my role was limited in any case. These were the true beginnings of a journalist named Luís Bello, who is already doing this, even in North America."
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