Jorge Lanata's reaction to reading his obituary

The journalist Jorge Lanata listen carefully to the driver of
Let's talk about something else, Pablo Sirvén, who reads an obituary ready to be published on the day of the death of the person in question. Sirven expects Lanata to guess who the text is talking about.

"The curtain now falls on one of the greatest journalistic writers of Argentine history … it will shine in the gallery of choice of other notable characters from the press such as Natalio Botana, Jacobo Timerman and Héctor Ricardo García, irreverent and capricious, histrionic, courageous, always playful and daring … it was noted with his voluminous figure, his stinging tongue and his sad look. "

Lanata badumes that it's about him. "It's me then, then it's me, I thank the one who wrote it," he says. "You're never at a distance from what you do.Although I never see him, the only sport I love, is boxing, I always say that I fight and that I do not care about the environment, the only thing that I look at is the blows that I give and those who give me, "he continues.

The journalist admits that a long time ago, he was afraid of being amputated with one leg. "I'm afraid of that, luckily, it did not happen … I'm afraid of death and I'm curious," he confesses.

His ego and his style

"To be Lanata, do you need an important ego?", Asks Sirven. "I imagine that yes, I would like to see everyone in my place." To all those who tell me that doing a newspaper at age 26, which at age 27 was a page in the middle of the
TimeI would like to see how they would be, "Lanata answers.

"I would say no [soy demasiado ególatra]. The people say [que soy un rockstar] because I'm doing what I feel, "he adds, saying that his eternal discussion of ways he goes to work is not trying to change him.