reported some extract from a speech on journalism - the best job in the world - held by Gabriel Garcia Marquez in 1996 the Assembly of the Inter American Press Society and content in the book "I came not to make speeches," published in Italy by Mondadori (yes, I I know, do not tell me nothing, prevailed: I have already suffered enough the idea of \u200b\u200bgiving money to the honorary president of pedophiles and "heroes").
Dedicated to those who think that we should only do journalists - as they say - "be at the desk" to those who believe that there is no need for journalists to interview a person looking at her face, but for those who believe that before going to a press conference or a meeting is unnecessary to inquire on the subject, but for those for whom being a journalist means appearing on TV, but for those convinced that they will automatically be journalists because they have studied science of communication to make sure that those journalists is essential to know how to write in Italian, but for those that newspapers write them, but not read them, but for those who want to make the journalists to get rich, but for those that do not ask questions in interviews, but with answers, to those would-be journalists for which "service" is a synonym for fellatio (the owner), but for those who say "we journalists love the power" and should boast a those who say "as we journalists are whores, but we sell the most beautiful part of our body and that the brain" and is not ashamed, to those according to which being a journalist means walking to 180 degrees .... or maybe not, maybe you should dedicate it to those few (very few) who understand: those who love this job so much to do it free, recognizing its great democratic function and a watchdog of power.
Garcia Marquez speaks of Colombia, but it is as if he were speaking of Italy:
".... this is the reason they are so inaccurate the reasons given by most students to explain their decision to study journalism .. Only .. one has given their preference to the fact that his passion for informing exceeded its interest in being informed ".
"Fifty years ago, when the Colombian press was in the vanguard in Latin America, there were no schools of journalism. The craft was learned in the newsroom, in the printers, the bar in front ... The entrance to the corporation did not include any condition that was not the desire to be a journalist, but even the children of the owners of newspapers had to demonstrate their ... attitudes in practice .... The experience had shown that everything was easy to learn in practice for those who possess the instinct, sensitivity and strength as a journalist. The exercise same as the craft makes it necessary to form a cultural basis, and the same working environment was concerned to supply it. The reading was a professional habit. "
"Since then, something changed. In Colombia they go for a walk around twenty-seven thousand journalist card, but for the most part ... are used as safe passage to obtain favors from the institutions, or to do the code, or to get free stadiums ... "
" Before the recorder was invented, the craft was practiced well with three essential tools that were really only one: the block to the clipboard, an ethic in every trial and a pair of ears that reporters still used to listen to what they were told .... In fact, the professional and ethical use of the recorder has yet to be invented ... The recorder hear but not listen, record but do not think is true but has no heart, and ultimately the its literal version will not be as good as that of those who pay attention to the living words of the interlocutor, the currency with his intelligence and his moral judges ...."
"In Colombia there are fourteen university degree and two master in communication sciences. This confirms a growing concern of great importance, but also gives the impression of an academic quagmire that meets many of the current needs of teaching, but not the two most important: creativity and practice ...."
... journalism is an insatiable passion that can be digested and humanized only in comparison with the raw reality. No one who has suffered can not conceive that this slavery is powered by the contingencies of life. No one who has not lived can not even imagine what the supernatural thrill of the news, orgasm exclusivity in the demolition of moral bankruptcy. No one who was not born for journalism and is not ready to die for it could withstand a profession so incomprehensible and voracious, whose work ends after each news item as if it were forever, and does not grant a moment of peace until it again with more enthusiasm than ever, the next minute. "
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