= journalist and columnist José María Calleja (León, 1955) has died with a coronavirus at the age of 64. Calleja was a doctor in Information Sciences and was a professor in the journalism career at the Carlos III University.
Threatened by ETA for years, he won the Espasa Essay Prize in 2001 with 'Arriba Euskadi: daily life in the Basque Country'. The journalist, who with 18 years was in prison for opposing the Franco regime, began his information career in the early 80s in the EFE Agency delegation in the Basque Country, from where he went to Euskal Telebista (ETB), coinciding with one of the bloodiest stages in ETA history. Reflection on violence has been a constant theme in his work as a writer, with titles such as 'Violence as news', 'Something he will have done: hate, death and fear in Euskadi' or 'The Valley of the Fallen'. In addition, he was director and presenter of "El Debate de CNN +", collaborator in Antena3, Cuatro, Onda Cero and in Agencia Colpisa, and participated as a socialist in Cadena SER.
In his last column, titled 'Between resisting and not touching' and published on March 17, Calleja described how sharing "a borderline situation" in the midst of an oronavirus health emergency "is fostering a beautiful, stimulating relationship between neighbors and, since then unforgettable. " "In the midst of the destruction, a citizen community of neighbors is being created that before we hardly knew each other by sight and that now, in the daily applause, we are creating a bond of solidarity, hopeful and comforting," he said. This same year he recalled in another article the murder by the ETA terrorist gang of Gregorio Ordóñez (1995), a PP councilor at the San Sebastián City Council, and asked to "make a memory". "ETA became an end in itself over time, ceased to be a means that fought against the Franco dictatorship to achieve democracy and became, was originally, a totalitarian organization. A band that practiced the systematic murder of those considered enemies: the 'Spaniards', as a way to complete their plan, "he wrote. Calleja dedicated a large part of his work as a teacher and writer to reflect on the treatment of violence from the media. In an interview in 2013 with eldiario.es, he stated that "images of murdered women were given, testimonies of people who are there and who are irrelevant", while "the idea of something will have made it apply to the victims" years 80 to the victims of ETA ".
In his last column, titled 'Between resisting and not touching' and published on March 17, Calleja described how sharing "a borderline situation" in the midst of an oronavirus health emergency "is fostering a beautiful, stimulating relationship between neighbors and, since then unforgettable. " "In the midst of the destruction, a citizen community of neighbors is being created that before we hardly knew each other by sight and that now, in the daily applause, we are creating a bond of solidarity, hopeful and comforting," he said. This same year he recalled in another article the murder by the ETA terrorist gang of Gregorio Ordóñez (1995), a PP councilor at the San Sebastián City Council, and asked to "make a memory". "ETA became an end in itself over time, ceased to be a means that fought against the Franco dictatorship to achieve democracy and became, was originally, a totalitarian organization. A band that practiced the systematic murder of those considered enemies: the 'Spaniards', as a way to complete their plan, "he wrote. Calleja dedicated a large part of his work as a teacher and writer to reflect on the treatment of violence from the media. In an interview in 2013 with eldiario.es, he stated that "images of murdered women were given, testimonies of people who are there and who are irrelevant", while "the idea of something will have made it apply to the victims" years 80 to the victims of ETA ".
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