Good job, Anna Bosch, and happy new chapter!
On Friday evening, Pepa Bueno closed the Telediario with a dedication to her colleague and journalist Anna Bosch, a historic correspondent for public television. A jack-of-all-trades in the profession who, after thirty-six years, is retiring. As a farewell gift, a report signed by Carlos del Amor covered part of her career and, above all, encapsulated her personality when informing. The video began in a very apt way to highlight the correspondent's demeanor. It was archival footage of Anna Bosch in one of her international reports, where she described the violent clashes between police and demonstrators. Bosch was wearing a helmet and a full-face mask that covered her entire face, with an anti-gas filter to prevent contact with the irritant substances that were spreading through the square. Del Amor began by saying: “There is something that few have, which is to be recognizable even when it is impossible to recognize you”. It is impossible to better express Bosch's television personality: from the scene of the events, covering the space and moving her arms to point out to the viewer what to focus on. A perfect symbiosis with the environment that no agency note could replace. Her reports are television history.
Anna Bosch's retirement means losing one of the most effective models for communicating and analyzing complex current events. She has had the virtue of explaining the world to us with a narrative naturalness that is being lost.
One of the great flaws of the new generations of journalists is that they have adopted the informative sing-song as a television brand of apparent solvency. In newscasts, a rigidity and a delivery have been imposed that use artificial vocal inflections that have been sold to us as a code specific to the medium. The viewer has normalized this in a kind of tacit pact with television, as a mark of professionalism that is increasingly forced.
Anna Bosch has been part of the resistance, a journalist who has refused to fall into the most spectacular television inertias, who has maintained a genuine style, in accordance with her personality and fleeing from the clichés and patterns of the most pampered television culture. After a long background in news, with correspondent roles in Moscow, London, and Washington, with reporting that had her own perspective on the program En portada, in recent years Bosch's experience has made her more necessary than ever in such a turbulent world. Her analytical capacity in international conflicts and in major election nights demonstrates a wisdom and an ability to connect facts and pay attention to details that makes the difference.
Bosch now has the opportunity to enjoy a new phase, but since her gaze is always active, we hope she will continue observing, writing, and analyzing with the perspective that comes from calm. Because she is a benchmark and a source of learning that we cannot do without.