On Tuesday, Sonsoles Ónega put on an unprecedented display of televised cruelty.Now we're going to move from one fantastic story to another tremendous one."," he simply announced, changing the subject. On his crime program on Antena 3, And now SonsolesThe program featured a couple whose son had died at the age of twenty due to serious medical negligence. The young man couldn't breathe, and his mother called emergency services. The conversation with the doctor was recorded, and Sonsoles Ónega broadcast it to introduce the case. The mother alerted the doctor that her son couldn't breathe. The doctor asked to speak with the young man, and she repeatedly told him that he couldn't because he was suffocating. The doctor, incredulous and arrogant, insisted. While this segment aired, the camera showed the couple. The father could be seen covering his ears to avoid hearing the call again. However, Ónega then moved on to the second part of the recording, with the added problem that she got the young man's name wrong. His name was Aitor, and she warned viewers that they would discover Iker's story. In the recording, the young man's voice could be heard:I'm drowning... I can't... I'm drowning..."And how the doctor spoke to the mother again and told her that her son was breathing perfectly. In a rude manner, he asked if he was under psychiatric treatment and insinuated that he had taken drugs. The mother denied it."He can say whatever he wants, but he's breathing perfectly fine."," the doctor concluded. Shortly afterward, the boy died from a blood clot obstructing his pulmonary artery. When the call ended, Ónega was sitting next to the couple, and the man was still covering his ears with his hands. The presenter, in a visibly affected tone, explained:Bartholomew has rightly told me: "I cannot hear my son die again.""No one on the program had thought of that before. Ónega was intoning one mea culpa hypocrite:Today I learned to ask. We won't do it again. We're not aware of it, but for you, hearing that call again brings no comfort. They will never forget it."
These witness programs have a phone number at the top of the screen. It's always there, to attract as many people as possible who want to recount their misfortunes, and thus become immune to suffering. The couple complained that the doctor had only been sentenced to two years in prison for negligence. But Ónega calls, trusting that the omnipotent television will have a solution, but what they really want is their drama and, of course, that call. Without that tragic recording, they wouldn't even have been invited. A clear episode of symbolic violence, where the father's instinctive gesture was the only sincere one in that spectacle."
