2023-11-04 19:34:53
The world of Opinion is in mourning. José María Carrascal was an always open encyclopedia, a guardian of letters, a devourer of current affairs. This is the tribute of those who learned so much from his figure.
“Carrascal has been an example of perseverance, an example of human simplicity, and an example of rigor in everything he has written and told over the decades.”
Teodoro Leon Gross
«Like the magician, he made us look at his tie while the trick was taking place: to seduce by giving information with rigor, but with the charm of a very human gaze»
Carlos Alsina
«He will always be the voice that informed us Antena 3 Radio listeners from the future. The most modern of the best journalism, which is the classic»
Rosa Belmonte
«Although on the horizon the best pension plan is suicide, his example is an encouragement to live. As long as ABC allows me to write columns at 92. Don’t worry, I don’t think I’ll get there. Nor at the heels of Carrascal»
Carlos Herrera
«The knight of the word. The lord of reflections. The insistent and serene Spanish. Memory of the vigorous years in which we were unbeatable. “That was Carrascal.”
Karina Sainz Borgo
«The man who told about the trip to the Moon, the only Cavia to be congratulated by a president of the United States. Columnist, interviewer, correspondent. The total journalist
Sergio del Molino
«He represented a type of columnism always in danger of extinction, with terrible iron health: the perennial apostille, the gaze always on guard»
Isabel San Sebastian
«He embodied independent and intelligent, scathing, rigorous journalism. He knew the golden years in which there was plenty of freedom and means for our work, and he honored it »
Ignacio Camacho
«His biography is the dream of any journalist who witnesses crucial historical changes on the front lines. And his perseverance, an example of commitment to the job »
Gabriel Albiac
«Having just arrived at ABC in 2010, I clung to his arm. In him the miracle of being more Ortega than Ortega operated. Next to him, a newcomer knew he was home. “With a teacher”
Jesus Nieto
“He gave the information a tone of rest, pause, and reflection where the young people who worked with him learned that journalism is a fiercely human science”
Jorge Bustos
«It was not the exotic tie, but the constant feather. “The discipline of the newspaper writer who spends his life in the modesty of commenting on current events, elegant and working-class.”
Salvador Sostres
«He was one of the first modern, brave, American, free journalists of my adolescence. With him, freedom, difference and daring made their way into journalism. “We owe him almost everything.”
Diego Garrocho
«He was an almost childhood character who over the years became a companion. His energy was incredible in someone from his class, but he had plenty of skill and maintained the enthusiasm and zeal of a young man.
Ignacio Ruiz Quintano
«It was the idea that we had in Spain of American journalism, in which the news counts less than the way of telling it. Carrascal touched glory»
José María Nieto
«I have rarely felt as much responsibility as when I had to illustrate those texts full of common sense, lucidity and the humanity accumulated in 92 years of life»
Jon Juaristi
«I learned a lot from him as a regular reader of his columns. I always appreciated his clarity and the strength of his rhetoric that managed to go unnoticed. An effective rhetoric
Chapu Apaolaza
«The tie is a great and casual counterpoint to such a solid, long and fruitful career. Carrascal teaches us that we have to die at the foot of the column, like him.
Berta G. de Vega
«At his age, he could have become a grumpy old man. He could have been back from everything. But not. “Intact curiosity seasoned with drops of history and joy.”
Angel Exposito
«Those ties symbolize his personal category, the North American school of this profession, and the authentic cultured journalist, traveler… free»
Manuel Jabois
«Whoever became famous for appearing on TV and wearing characteristic ties was first of all, and at the end of all, a writer who found in the adrenaline of reporting and the peace of the columns a way of life that led him, while I wrote, until the final point »
Pedro García Cuartango
«Six decades of journalism and history disappear with him. Sober, lucid and master, the man leaves but the traces of his pen and the legacy of his bonhomie remain »
María José Fuenteálamo
«His last name is an institution. A reference for those of us who have dreamed of being journalists since we were children, what I boasted about most in my debut at ABC was writing alongside him.»
Alberto Garcia Reyes
«His life has been a pulse of fashion, the keyboard, the headlines and time. Presidents, popes and kings have passed through its folio. Through your fingers, only independence
Mariona Gumpert
«Great literary talent channeled into such fascinating fields as the novel, the profession of correspondent and columnism. “We lose a father.”
Also Ussia
«His ties were impossible, but they are part of the memory of all of us who learned from him. He was the great dean of journalism in Spanish, lucid and universal »
Manuel Marin
«Always on guard and without relief, his lyrics were always fireproof. As the. When he was little he wanted to be a journalist. As an adult, he never wanted to stop being one »
Puebla
«It was the vanguard of television journalism. Its rhythm and expressiveness captured all the attention. “He treaded safely on all terrains.”
José F. Pelaez
«There is a cosmopolitan, humble and cultured modernity that does not need to shout to be heard. This was Carrascal, the great modernist of our journalism.”
Jesus Lillo
«It was the permanence of a journalistic inertia now lost, the reflex action, the immediate reflection, the calm provided by memory and the simplicity of one who communicates from the humility of a witness»
Ramon Palomar
«Only colossi die with their boots on. José María Carrascal unsheathed his pen daily until the last breath that carried him towards eternal sleep »
Luis Herrero
«I have met few journalists who maintained the same enthusiasm as he did on the first day for a job well done. He was the youngest of us. He was the most enthusiastic observer of what was happening »
Luis del Val
«I remember Carrascal many times when I look at the map of this planet, always in conflict. “I would like ‘the last breath’ to catch me sending a bouquet of words to an editorial office.”
Cristina Casabon
«Now, if you want to know the true culture of the 20th century you have to go to the books, but it was José María who shaped, with his craft, the entire verbal culture of the time. It was a school for everyone.”
Angel A. Herrera
«The profession, in José María Carrascal, always wore flowers in a tie, on television and in the newspaper, because it crossed delayed data with the free will of opinion»
Juan Manuel De Prada
Carrascal was the quiet man of journalism walking through Manhattan and always open to curiosity, stupor and joy. A man without extremes or extremes, all of him welcoming and lucid. And he died – maximum blessing for the writer – with his boots on.
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