Santa Leire against sewers | Opinion

In times of cynicism and venality, it is exciting to see that there are still those who trust journalism, in the ability of knowledge to change things, in the power of complaint and word. In times of voluntary servitude, with so many reporters trapped in a network of sympathies and mutual favors, and indoced by precariousness, it is inspiring to see that someone – a woman, obviously! -, on their own and risk, without ties or mortgages, without particular interests although with legitimate sympathies, it would be more, there would be more, more, more would be missing. Try to disrupt a dark and powerful plot of officials who tangle against a unprotected government.

It is true that he has been able to deviate on the way: deceive, promise things that were not in his hand, imply that he worked for the Executive just because he tried to discredit prosecutors and agents whose investigations could harm the government. The journalists really do not do those brrullerías, it is already known, but in fiction yes: Walter Matthau was a scoundrel in Front page; Wasn’t it nice at the same time? In this case, rather, there is a tender naivety: how would it be explained if not, to intimidate an anti -corruption prosecutor it will allegedly spread a sexual video And that the document was delivered to a journalist who had tried to intimidate with a sexual video decades before? How, if not, it would be understood that he offered the favor of the Prosecutor’s Office to whom he collaborated in his investigations, when that was out of his area of ​​influence?

You have to be rigorous with those alleged excesses, but indulgent with its proven passion. Some have seen in it a kind of female version of Don Quijote, who also had a late vocation, and that, if we get pejigueros, he made enough mistakes that did not cancel other admirable features. Yet, His daring and lonely effort It remembers Teresa de Jesus even more, that – I allow a slight modernization of the style – I wrote: “I am missing, my Lord, but if you will not forsake me, I will not miss you. That all the lawyers be lifted against me, that all the created things pursue me, that the demons stiff who in just you trust. Do not be afraid, daughter, that I am, and I will not forsake you: do not fear”