It’s funny that, just when part of journalism is thrown into the arms of ‘fake news’ and ‘alternative facts’, the best in the business have fun making ‘sound fictions’. If you can tell lies with the appearance of truth, as the muse warned Hesiod when he was grazing the flocks, you can also tell the truth by telling a story. A ‘radiofiction’ about Kennedy’s assassination by Carlos Alsina and his team has won on Ondas. Team, I say, or rather ‘dream team’? We abuse this expression. I want to say that Cruyff’s Barça was not bad, but the lineup made up of Moreno, Zúmer, Heras, Montes, Abad, Parada, Sedano, Noguerales, Fortea, Díez and Gómez de la Fuente is even better. That eleven could play at the Camp Nou, but they prefer to play with Alsina, who is cooler. Now I know that reality is prosaic and that behind every dream there is a dream team. I met him almost three years ago, when he invited me to present ‘Hazte who are you’. I was very tired after doing fifty interviews, but when I entered the studio my legs were shaking. Alsina imposes and being there was – worth the cliché – like a dream. He told me that he didn’t know who had given him a bag of chocolates and, exchanging a playful look with the co-presenter, he offered me one. I guess he wanted to calm down. I refused. I remembered that scene from ‘The Count of Monte Cristo’ in which Dantes, lording over his magical island, offers a spoonful of hashish to the perplexed Franz, who wakes up the next day as if nothing had happened. If it was a dream, I didn’t want to wake up. Brave kitsch! Now I know that reality is prosaic and that behind every dream there is a dream team. If Alsina is the best it is because, among other things, he surrounds himself with the best. Orson Welles said that the radio is the theater of the mind. It is there, and not in a physical place – although some listeners do not believe it – where the Luis del Olmo Theater is located. It is true that some claim to have been there physically. Does it happen to them like those who, claiming to have crossed the secret rooms of the Island of Monte Cristo, dreamed without knowing it?
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