Twitter has had a great time with a story that, looked at carefully, is sad. For the past few days it has been trending topic, that is to say, one of the most talked about issues on the social network, the name of a Galician practically unknown until now: Manel Monteagudo, who is actually called José Manuel Blanco. As if journalists couldn’t get enough of the news that is, they devoted time and resources to one that could never be. Monteagudo appeared in various media – not this one – telling one of the stories we like the most: that of overcoming. Being in his twenties, he had suffered a serious accident and had woken up from a coma 35 years later, at 58, unable – of course – to recognize himself in the mirror.
The man left several clues – fat – about the falsity of his story, for example, that during the coma he had married and conceived two daughters, but for a whole 24 hours, televisions, radios and newspapers decided to ignore them, but not the tweeting community that With his good reflexes, he began to ask himself the questions that so many professionals had not asked themselves, those of common sense: can a man wake up 35 years later and start writing books? Engaging in a sexual relationship in a coma? Say yes, I want to?
There were also those who brought the ember to their sardine. Jusapol said on Twitter [asociación de policías y guardias civiles] Euskadi: “Like Manel, there are thousands and thousands of companions unawakened, lethargic waiting for others to fight for them. Then there are those who believe that retirement will never come, colleagues who live without looking to the future or seeing the past. Don’t complain if you don’t do anything. Equalization [salarial] already”.
When the lie was already evident, there were different reactions. On Twitter they threw for humor: @superfalete: “Wake me up from a coma at a quarter to nine, the national team is playing”; @elmundotoday: “The Christmas lights of Vigo wake up a man who had been in a coma for 35 years”; @AlvaroLario: “Even a man in a coma fucked more than me.” The media that had spread the hoax launched into pieces about “the doubts” of Manel’s story with quotation marks that would have melted the great José Luis Cuerda: “He was in a coma, but sporadically left home.”
– Manel, put down the garbage.
– Oh, I noticed the coma again!– Super Falete 🇳🇵 (@SuperFalete) November 11, 2021
This Friday, Manel Monteagudo assured before the cameras of TVE that he had had an accident that had left him serious consequences, but admitted that he was never in a coma. “The thing has gotten out of hand. I take all the blame, ”he apologized. Not many of the media that spread his incredible story. What’s more, some of them started something similar to a lynching by putting Manel in stock for having deceived them, when the correct thing would have been to say that they were deceived. The hoax of Good Bye, Lenin Galician for not being it was not new, because it had already been published in the media of that community.
On Twitter the party followed: @diostuitero: “Now that Manel has recognized that he was not in a coma for 35 years, I want to take the opportunity to confess that I was not dead and I was resurrected. 2,000 years of joke is already good. ” And at Manel’s house the phone kept ringing: journalists who had not asked what they owed the day before called to demand explanations for the inconsistent answers.
Some of the tweets are truly ingenious, but once laughed, it is worth reflecting on the precipitation. Recently, news of a brutal homophobic assault spread. The injuries could hardly be self-inflicted – the word “fag” had been stabbed into his buttock. The Government urgently convened the commission against hate crimes. But the complaint turned out to be false. This newspaper, which in that case fell, apologized for it.
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