Con un titular como ese, se me hizo imposible no leer la entrevista al reportero de guerra vasco afincado en Suecia, Unai Aranzadi. No me apasiona Calle 13 y hace ya muchos años que dejé de creer en el trabajo del grupo editor del diario El País, pero me ha resultado llamativa, por poco habitual, la sinceridad del reportero vasco en la edición española de la revista Vice. Comparto aquí algunas de sus ideas.
Prensa y deportes de riesgo
"A lo colonial que ha sido siempre este oficio, hoy se le suma lo turístico. Hordas de muchachos y muchachas europeos, japoneses y estadounidenses con un equipo carísimo y sin necesidad real de publicar, recorren los sufrimientos que el status quo mediático les ha sugerido denunciar como si de un deporte de riesgo se tratara".
"A lo colonial que ha sido siempre este oficio, hoy se le suma lo turístico. Hordas de muchachos y muchachas europeos, japoneses y estadounidenses con un equipo carísimo y sin necesidad real de publicar, recorren los sufrimientos que el status quo mediático les ha sugerido denunciar como si de un deporte de riesgo se tratara".
El contador de historias
"Confío en llegar a los 40 con algo interesante que decir (...). Camino hacia nuevas formas de contar historias porque los periodistas es lo que somos, contadores de historias".
"Confío en llegar a los 40 con algo interesante que decir (...). Camino hacia nuevas formas de contar historias porque los periodistas es lo que somos, contadores de historias".
Sobre el periodismo
"Cobra más importancia el personaje periodístico y su forma de hacer
entretenimiento que el sujeto informativo mismo. Digan lo que digan,
salir en la televisión o en una publicación conocida te convierte
automáticamente en buen profesional per se, quedando en segundo plano el contenido y la calidad de tu trabajo. (...) Hoy en día, el periodismo está
peligrosamente sobrevalorado y no ha de ser más representativo de la
realidad que cualquier otra forma de expresión. Hay más verdad en un
disco de Calle 13 que en todo el grupo PRISA".
English ---
"There is more truth in a Calle 13 CD than in the whole PRISA editorial group".
With a headline like that, it became impossible to me not to read the interview with the Basque war reporter based in Sweden, Unai Aranzadi. I don't like very much Calle 13 music and I stopped believing in the work of the editor group of the newspaper El País many years ago, but I've found striking, unusual, the sincerity of the Basque reporter published in the Spanish edition of Vice magazine. I share here some of his ideas.
Press and extreme sports
"This job has always been colonialistic but now you have to add the crowds. Hordes of European, Japanese and Americans boys and girls with a very expensive equipment and no real need to publish, travel through the suffering that the 'status quo' media has suggested them to report as if it were a dangerous sport. "
The storyteller
"I hope to reach my 40 with something interesting to say (...). I walk towards new ways of telling stories because we journalists are just that, we are storytellers."
On journalism
"(Today) It becomes more important the journalistic character and the way we do entertainment than the subject itself. Whatever they say, be on TV or print in a well know publication automatically becomes you in a good professional 'per se', no matter the background and content or quality of your work. (...) Today, journalism is dangerously overrated but it should not be more representative of reality than any other form of expression. There is more truth in an album by Calle 13 in the whole group PRISA ".
English ---
"There is more truth in a Calle 13 CD than in the whole PRISA editorial group".
With a headline like that, it became impossible to me not to read the interview with the Basque war reporter based in Sweden, Unai Aranzadi. I don't like very much Calle 13 music and I stopped believing in the work of the editor group of the newspaper El País many years ago, but I've found striking, unusual, the sincerity of the Basque reporter published in the Spanish edition of Vice magazine. I share here some of his ideas.
Press and extreme sports
"This job has always been colonialistic but now you have to add the crowds. Hordes of European, Japanese and Americans boys and girls with a very expensive equipment and no real need to publish, travel through the suffering that the 'status quo' media has suggested them to report as if it were a dangerous sport. "
The storyteller
"I hope to reach my 40 with something interesting to say (...). I walk towards new ways of telling stories because we journalists are just that, we are storytellers."
On journalism
"(Today) It becomes more important the journalistic character and the way we do entertainment than the subject itself. Whatever they say, be on TV or print in a well know publication automatically becomes you in a good professional 'per se', no matter the background and content or quality of your work. (...) Today, journalism is dangerously overrated but it should not be more representative of reality than any other form of expression. There is more truth in an album by Calle 13 in the whole group PRISA ".
