The historic driver of Telenoche, Cesar MascettiHe died on Tuesday at the age of 80.. The news was confirmed by the family through the channels Eltrece y TNwhere the journalist was the face of the news along with his partner, Monica Cahen from Antwerpfor little more than a decade. In this context, the public remembered the endearing farewell of the marriage of the screen almost two decades ago.
On December 19, 2003, Mónica and César hosted the flagship newscast for the last time. Eltrece. In that broadcast, the couple reviewed their most historical coverage at the head of the program that they headed from 20 for 17 years.
Mónica Cahen D’Anvers and César Mascetti, or just Mónica and César, a couple on and off the small screen, experienced that last broadcast between applause, tears and emotion.
“38 years ago I sat for the first time in this place. started Telenoche. She was nervous, scared, trembling. Now it’s my turn to say bye, and I assure you that I’m almost the same as that day: nervous and trembling, ”Cahen D’Anvers reviewed, heading his last words at the hand of Telenoche. “In these days when the news was us, many colleagues asked us what the secret of our permanence is,” he introduced.
And he continued: “We have some ideas regarding it, but the real answer lies with you. Night following night, we entered their homes without permission to give them – many times – bad news. However, the next day they chose us once more. The merit is not ours, moreover, it is fundamentally yours. It is like good marriages: a marital property, built with a shared effort, it is that feeling that built this true affection.
“We receive it every time one of you stops us on the street and speaks to us as if we had known each other all our lives, as if we were family. You know it because in these years we always speak to you face to face, with the truth”, added Mónica, and closed: “In the name of that affection we say bye, see you later”.
Mascetti’s farewell also dedicated his extensive thanks to the public. “We are committed to building a better country and we continue to think -as we did to choose this profession- that independent journalism should serve not only to inform, but to transform”, Mascetti said, in a warm message to the audience, following highlighting the team of professionals who accompanied him.
And he closed: “Today we are not saying goodbye, we’re just arranging our next date. This was the news.”
“We have to give super sad news for us here in this house. He left a person very dear to all of us and a benchmark for Argentine journalism: César Mascetti died, ”the host of TN Dominique Metzger reported this noon.
The death of the journalist was officially confirmed through a statement from the municipality of San Pedro, where Mascetti was born on December 9, 1941. “The Municipality of San Pedro shares, with great sadness, the death of journalist César Mascetti. His enormous career in the media, his story linked to the Sampedrina press through his father’s newspaper The Independent and his link with the production of the area through La Campiña are just some of the many reasons why his figure is part of the history of the sampedrinos. To Mónica, her great companion, her family and all her loved ones, we send our condolences on behalf of the Municipal Mayor Ramón Salazar, the former Mayor Cecilio Salazar and the entire government of our city”, expresses the text spread through the networks.
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