R Kapuscinski EFLEXIONES ON JOURNALISM
Arturo Cano
La Jornada
The inspiration and enthusiasm, said the journalism teacher, is a fire that the time off. The reporter must prepare for it. Be curious. Interested in things. Read, read, read.
Under the guise of Prince of Asturias Prize, which has been recently awarded with the Peruvian theologian Gustavo Gutiérrez - published some reflections of the legendary Polish journalist on a trade that has had as few
Often the young reporter Ryszard Kapuscinski , slave news agency, could not choose the place from which to tell the world. The old master Kapucinski , with its facade of village doctor, friendly and good-natured, uncomfortable with his tie yet formal, and decide where you want to jump-start their curiosity.
Sitting at the table with journalists and students convened by Jose Carreno Carlon , Ricardo -thus it must be called when you are in Mexico, "he says without any hint of arrogance: " I decided if I was going to give another workshop would be where I decide " . And Richard decided it would be in Argentina, a country that has given it lacked friends but that his eyes scrutinize the "best reporter of the twentieth century" .
Before traveling to Argentina, in September 2002, passed by Mexico, on his second visit in less than a year after 23 of not pushing the land.
In October 2001 a workshop was organized by the Fundación Nuevo Periodismo Iberoamericano , the Inter-American Development Bank and Universidad Iberoamericana. The free version of their words that gives readers Masiosare -studded dialogue, comes some of that workshop and a meal on his second visit. ***
- What song you remember, Richard?
-Paloma Negra, with Lola Beltran (who knew). And this other cutu ...
-Cucurrucucú
dove ... "That
. ***
In war, the only way for a reporter to know if what you say is true is to go directly to the scene. Many times I reported this or that place had been taken, and by government forces, and by the guerrillas. Almost always the opposite happened.
If he had believed in the official reports, Israel had lost three times his army and his Egyptian five times during the 1967 war. ***
(About Rwanda) They sent reporters to places you never knew where they were. It was, however, a war "very rational" , was for land, a war of farmers versus farmers in a small country.
was a conflict in the real economy for survival. Then came the correspondents from around the world to say to the people: 'them niggas crazy irrational, they are fools, they are idiots. "
All to show that Africa is a land of fools, idiots land. They knew where they were. The first thing he did was use their cell phones. ***
To understand something, go into another culture. It is never possible to 100%, but we must try. To capture this otherness is to be open, ready.
*** (in journalism) there are no iron rules. Are somewhat elastic.
decision was mixed in ethics and taste our (how I feel). ***
- period inevitably becomes cynical?
I do not think. What happens is that people entering our profession and of itself is cynical, motivated people who enter money, career, it has nothing to do with our vocation. Our profession is becoming more sensitive and vulnerable. ***
is important to the sense of not knowing. It's a natural thing in a world ever more complicated, more again.
If the text is not bad questions. The contemporary reader also lives in a complicated world. ***
Reporters are poachers from other fields, we have to take things out of other branches of sociology, history, anthropology ... We have to make the reader feel the author has a comprehensive education. ***
Inspiration enthusiasm, is a fire that eventually turns off. If we are not prepared for that moment to be missed. Get ready for this moment now. Read, read, read. Interested.
Many friends that for me were the gods of the profession disappeared, nobody knows where they are. They did not develop by themselves, do not read, did not participate in discussions, thought they had everything themselves. ***
If journalists confine ourselves to our daily duties we are lost. ***
As representatives of this new branch of literature (the journalists) have two great enemies: 1) The writers of fiction who do not want admitted to reporters at his home, 2) The 'pure journalists' , people moving around the media world, but for various reasons do not have this desire to do something that is not pure news pure information. They are simply trying journalism as a way of earning a living or spend with age to be officials or businessmen.
course, not all journalism is literature. The first criterion is the quality of the text. ***
Journalism is a profession very paradoxical. The reporter is a loner, which is always in contact with new people, new places and on the other side is always dependent on others.
***
the report, the first contact is always important, 15 minutes of our behavior that we're going to do. The first contact must be of a very intense relationship. ***
The behavior of the reporter has to be simple, sincere and humble. The people are very susceptible to arrogance. Our interlocutor is first a human being is not our subject, is someone who has his own world. ***
I am against aggressive interviews. I prefer to create a trust situation, I listen if he wants to say.
*** Our office is full of mysteries before which we have no answer. We always start again. We are always in a learning situation. No masters. ***
The strength of the text is in the tension between what is written and what is not (as an opera singer, who always appreciate because we know the potential is greater).
In a sense it is not written is as important as what is written. Each text is a composition, a creation. ***
Ebony had to write a library of 220 books ... and an experience of 40 years. ***
The powerful never interested me much. It is a type of people who can not tell you anything interesting, only tells you things bureaucratic. ***
Reporters are a group of very special people who devote their time, attention, ambitions, to meet the demands of our profession.
is a job that requires seriousness, concentration and reflection. Eventually
can aspire to belong to a certain aristocracy, but this work does not give money.
*** A good story? You can write up a month and that is very little money. Making money is only possible at the expense of quality.
experience they win those who prefer to work without money, those who prefer to drive.
***
To cite quotes need to be almost brilliant phrases. One narrator is always better than the interviewee. ***
(The writer) is an instrument which requires great care. Faced with the recorder townspeople talk about a very official, not a natural language. Almost lose touch with this natural.
When a reporter used the recorder too focused on what the other says. When degreasing is that 90% is junk. Listening, select the most important things. With the recorder Sorry we do not need this job.
"Do not need full brain Gabriel García Márquez. ***
I often limited in my descriptions because the reader would say 'that's not possible' , so horrible things omitted. There is more than reality, but is less than the reality, which is much more terrible ... The silence says more times. It is not hidden. Is to express the same through other resources, through an atmosphere that expresses all the horror. ***
The agency is a factory slave. There is no freedom, language skills are very poor. So I started writing books. The offices of the agency were 600 or 800 words, with language official.
Each book of mine is actually the second volume of a first that does not exist: the notes I wrote to the agency. ***
Occasionally only had $ 100 and had to write about a coup. The telex cost 50 cents per word. Where, what forces, what happened, all I had to write in 200 words. ***
The agency worked like crazy. I had to pay that price to write my stories. I was aware that it was. ***
The reporter has to move with great concentration. Trying to memorize everything. Think: 'Possibly this is the only time in my life where I'm going to meet this man, this woman, the only time I'm here ' . So you have to be very intense. ***
journalistic tradition is based on Anglo 'objectivity' . In contrast, the European school, the journalist is someone who takes part.
Anglo-Saxon tradition in journalism is conceived as 'other powers' and that is why he can not take part. Hence the difference in American journalism, including the reporter and columnist.
In Europe, this difference does not exist, because Europe was born as a partisan press. And the position assumed is clearly said, not hiding anything: the journalist has to take part and be active member of his society.
The Anglo-Saxon press, of course, take sides, but does not openly hidden.
In Latin America, the big media owners are on the side of objective journalism, because that's not criticism, not expressed any disagreement with government policies. ***
All
September (2002) I was in New York. I was amazed at the great unanimity of the major American media; I recalled the time when the CPSU Central Committee controlled all information. ***
Paradoxically, read too little. Why criticize us very often, because we write or 'know' on everything. One day in agriculture, another war, another of sports. It should try to specialize in something for two reasons: to have your group of readers and build your group of loyal readers. But more importantly, in today's world there are lots of books on any subject. It is very difficult to find a new theme. It is a civilization that reached its limits in many ways.
must know what already written. If we want something from us, we must begin with readings.
If we write is to say something really new and different way to other authors. ***
Typing all that you know the result will be very bad, very skinny. You must write 5% of what is known.
I used to write Empire 5% of what he knew. ***
A book is written in three levels:
1) It is in the mind but needs time to mature.
2) started to think more concretely on the issue. In my case: I read a lot, look for witnesses. You can also take years.
3) Write. Very specific in my case. A lot of concentration and without pausing. The most important thing is to find a good rhythm. Once found, the rhythm is like the waves of the sea. ***
When writing the first page (the text that would become Emperor), I realized that this story had already written many times. I have this to say otherwise. I did not know what to do. Two months passed before I could do anything. The editor was pursuing me because Christmas was coming and they wanted to publish the story in one of the special editions of those dates. I went into a depression, almost suicidal, I was very desperate.
When I'm in that situation, trying to understand, step one book to another, but nothing.
I have a custom: when you do not know how to start a book I try to choose the easiest decision you can imagine, as children's book (in the manner of 'Alice has a cat' ).
One day I suddenly remembered that I saw the Emperor on several occasions with a small dog always on his lap. And I wrote the first sentence: "That was a Japanese dog breed. Her name was Lu."
When I wrote that sentence I thought I had the book.
***
Del lot of notes that I took only fit in my book. My notes political, economic and military lost all meaning and value. And with these short stories built this box. The book ( Emperor), of course, is building mine, but the voices are real. ***
Each week I gave a piece (the text that became the book Emperor). And fortunately there the trouble began. Everyone was surprised because they expected a report 'classic' and the dog suddenly appeared Haile Selassie and were very dissatisfied. In the second week the editor asked me 'When you start writing the story? "
But some began to understand: power, dictatorship ... and began calling the Central Committee: 'What are you posting? "
People read it as a portrait of the Polish ruling elite. Emperor sold out in one night. ***
Kapuscinski handwritten. Although his pen have left more than 20 books says: I write very little. Sentence that I put on paper and does not change, so goes to press.
(Text published on May 11, 2003, at number 281 of the Sunday supplement Masiosare of La Jornada ) ==========
Arturo Cano
La Jornada
The inspiration and enthusiasm, said the journalism teacher, is a fire that the time off. The reporter must prepare for it. Be curious. Interested in things. Read, read, read.
Under the guise of Prince of Asturias Prize, which has been recently awarded with the Peruvian theologian Gustavo Gutiérrez - published some reflections of the legendary Polish journalist on a trade that has had as few
Often the young reporter Ryszard Kapuscinski , slave news agency, could not choose the place from which to tell the world. The old master Kapucinski , with its facade of village doctor, friendly and good-natured, uncomfortable with his tie yet formal, and decide where you want to jump-start their curiosity.
Sitting at the table with journalists and students convened by Jose Carreno Carlon , Ricardo -thus it must be called when you are in Mexico, "he says without any hint of arrogance: " I decided if I was going to give another workshop would be where I decide " . And Richard decided it would be in Argentina, a country that has given it lacked friends but that his eyes scrutinize the "best reporter of the twentieth century" .
Before traveling to Argentina, in September 2002, passed by Mexico, on his second visit in less than a year after 23 of not pushing the land.
In October 2001 a workshop was organized by the Fundación Nuevo Periodismo Iberoamericano , the Inter-American Development Bank and Universidad Iberoamericana. The free version of their words that gives readers Masiosare -studded dialogue, comes some of that workshop and a meal on his second visit. ***
- What song you remember, Richard?
-Paloma Negra, with Lola Beltran (who knew). And this other cutu ...
-Cucurrucucú
dove ... "That
. ***
In war, the only way for a reporter to know if what you say is true is to go directly to the scene. Many times I reported this or that place had been taken, and by government forces, and by the guerrillas. Almost always the opposite happened.
If he had believed in the official reports, Israel had lost three times his army and his Egyptian five times during the 1967 war. ***
(About Rwanda) They sent reporters to places you never knew where they were. It was, however, a war "very rational" , was for land, a war of farmers versus farmers in a small country.
was a conflict in the real economy for survival. Then came the correspondents from around the world to say to the people: 'them niggas crazy irrational, they are fools, they are idiots. "
All to show that Africa is a land of fools, idiots land. They knew where they were. The first thing he did was use their cell phones. ***
To understand something, go into another culture. It is never possible to 100%, but we must try. To capture this otherness is to be open, ready.
*** (in journalism) there are no iron rules. Are somewhat elastic.
decision was mixed in ethics and taste our (how I feel). ***
- period inevitably becomes cynical?
I do not think. What happens is that people entering our profession and of itself is cynical, motivated people who enter money, career, it has nothing to do with our vocation. Our profession is becoming more sensitive and vulnerable. ***
is important to the sense of not knowing. It's a natural thing in a world ever more complicated, more again.
If the text is not bad questions. The contemporary reader also lives in a complicated world. ***
Reporters are poachers from other fields, we have to take things out of other branches of sociology, history, anthropology ... We have to make the reader feel the author has a comprehensive education. ***
Inspiration enthusiasm, is a fire that eventually turns off. If we are not prepared for that moment to be missed. Get ready for this moment now. Read, read, read. Interested.
Many friends that for me were the gods of the profession disappeared, nobody knows where they are. They did not develop by themselves, do not read, did not participate in discussions, thought they had everything themselves. ***
If journalists confine ourselves to our daily duties we are lost. ***
As representatives of this new branch of literature (the journalists) have two great enemies: 1) The writers of fiction who do not want admitted to reporters at his home, 2) The 'pure journalists' , people moving around the media world, but for various reasons do not have this desire to do something that is not pure news pure information. They are simply trying journalism as a way of earning a living or spend with age to be officials or businessmen.
course, not all journalism is literature. The first criterion is the quality of the text. ***
Journalism is a profession very paradoxical. The reporter is a loner, which is always in contact with new people, new places and on the other side is always dependent on others.
***
the report, the first contact is always important, 15 minutes of our behavior that we're going to do. The first contact must be of a very intense relationship. ***
The behavior of the reporter has to be simple, sincere and humble. The people are very susceptible to arrogance. Our interlocutor is first a human being is not our subject, is someone who has his own world. ***
I am against aggressive interviews. I prefer to create a trust situation, I listen if he wants to say.
*** Our office is full of mysteries before which we have no answer. We always start again. We are always in a learning situation. No masters. ***
The strength of the text is in the tension between what is written and what is not (as an opera singer, who always appreciate because we know the potential is greater).
In a sense it is not written is as important as what is written. Each text is a composition, a creation. ***
Ebony had to write a library of 220 books ... and an experience of 40 years. ***
The powerful never interested me much. It is a type of people who can not tell you anything interesting, only tells you things bureaucratic. ***
Reporters are a group of very special people who devote their time, attention, ambitions, to meet the demands of our profession.
is a job that requires seriousness, concentration and reflection. Eventually
can aspire to belong to a certain aristocracy, but this work does not give money.
*** A good story? You can write up a month and that is very little money. Making money is only possible at the expense of quality.
experience they win those who prefer to work without money, those who prefer to drive.
***
To cite quotes need to be almost brilliant phrases. One narrator is always better than the interviewee. ***
(The writer) is an instrument which requires great care. Faced with the recorder townspeople talk about a very official, not a natural language. Almost lose touch with this natural.
When a reporter used the recorder too focused on what the other says. When degreasing is that 90% is junk. Listening, select the most important things. With the recorder Sorry we do not need this job.
"Do not need full brain Gabriel García Márquez. ***
I often limited in my descriptions because the reader would say 'that's not possible' , so horrible things omitted. There is more than reality, but is less than the reality, which is much more terrible ... The silence says more times. It is not hidden. Is to express the same through other resources, through an atmosphere that expresses all the horror. ***
The agency is a factory slave. There is no freedom, language skills are very poor. So I started writing books. The offices of the agency were 600 or 800 words, with language official.
Each book of mine is actually the second volume of a first that does not exist: the notes I wrote to the agency. ***
Occasionally only had $ 100 and had to write about a coup. The telex cost 50 cents per word. Where, what forces, what happened, all I had to write in 200 words. ***
The agency worked like crazy. I had to pay that price to write my stories. I was aware that it was. ***
The reporter has to move with great concentration. Trying to memorize everything. Think: 'Possibly this is the only time in my life where I'm going to meet this man, this woman, the only time I'm here ' . So you have to be very intense. ***
journalistic tradition is based on Anglo 'objectivity' . In contrast, the European school, the journalist is someone who takes part.
Anglo-Saxon tradition in journalism is conceived as 'other powers' and that is why he can not take part. Hence the difference in American journalism, including the reporter and columnist.
In Europe, this difference does not exist, because Europe was born as a partisan press. And the position assumed is clearly said, not hiding anything: the journalist has to take part and be active member of his society.
The Anglo-Saxon press, of course, take sides, but does not openly hidden.
In Latin America, the big media owners are on the side of objective journalism, because that's not criticism, not expressed any disagreement with government policies. ***
All
September (2002) I was in New York. I was amazed at the great unanimity of the major American media; I recalled the time when the CPSU Central Committee controlled all information. ***
Paradoxically, read too little. Why criticize us very often, because we write or 'know' on everything. One day in agriculture, another war, another of sports. It should try to specialize in something for two reasons: to have your group of readers and build your group of loyal readers. But more importantly, in today's world there are lots of books on any subject. It is very difficult to find a new theme. It is a civilization that reached its limits in many ways.
must know what already written. If we want something from us, we must begin with readings.
If we write is to say something really new and different way to other authors. ***
Typing all that you know the result will be very bad, very skinny. You must write 5% of what is known.
I used to write Empire 5% of what he knew. ***
A book is written in three levels:
1) It is in the mind but needs time to mature.
2) started to think more concretely on the issue. In my case: I read a lot, look for witnesses. You can also take years.
3) Write. Very specific in my case. A lot of concentration and without pausing. The most important thing is to find a good rhythm. Once found, the rhythm is like the waves of the sea. ***
When writing the first page (the text that would become Emperor), I realized that this story had already written many times. I have this to say otherwise. I did not know what to do. Two months passed before I could do anything. The editor was pursuing me because Christmas was coming and they wanted to publish the story in one of the special editions of those dates. I went into a depression, almost suicidal, I was very desperate.
When I'm in that situation, trying to understand, step one book to another, but nothing.
I have a custom: when you do not know how to start a book I try to choose the easiest decision you can imagine, as children's book (in the manner of 'Alice has a cat' ).
One day I suddenly remembered that I saw the Emperor on several occasions with a small dog always on his lap. And I wrote the first sentence: "That was a Japanese dog breed. Her name was Lu."
When I wrote that sentence I thought I had the book.
***
Del lot of notes that I took only fit in my book. My notes political, economic and military lost all meaning and value. And with these short stories built this box. The book ( Emperor), of course, is building mine, but the voices are real. ***
Each week I gave a piece (the text that became the book Emperor). And fortunately there the trouble began. Everyone was surprised because they expected a report 'classic' and the dog suddenly appeared Haile Selassie and were very dissatisfied. In the second week the editor asked me 'When you start writing the story? "
But some began to understand: power, dictatorship ... and began calling the Central Committee: 'What are you posting? "
People read it as a portrait of the Polish ruling elite. Emperor sold out in one night. ***
Kapuscinski handwritten. Although his pen have left more than 20 books says: I write very little. Sentence that I put on paper and does not change, so goes to press.
(Text published on May 11, 2003, at number 281 of the Sunday supplement Masiosare of La Jornada ) ==========
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How important evoke the master of journalism Kapuscinski Ricardo who shared prizes with renowned Peruvian priest Gustavo Gutiérrez. The teachings of this master are gold, diamonds and rubies.
How important evoke the master of journalism Kapuscinski Ricardo who shared prizes with renowned Peruvian priest Gustavo Gutiérrez. The teachings of this master are gold, diamonds and rubies.
Honestly, I always liked Kapuscinski four issues I have always present:
1) The ability to be dynamic and flexible in terms of journalism practice and ethics without losing the style, but quite the contrary accentuate and contrast. Pointing out that your conscience should always be a spring morning, with scented flowers and sunshine.
2) Focus on human speech and spontaneous in your interview (by whomsoever), respect and avoid ambushes, I always liked that rule, and am a little enemy to show the recorder to my interviewees, because they have respect and mutates his speech.
3) journalist I respect the religious (humanist) and updated essences never stop reading and heights, always believe that the journalist will be a religious and humanistic character and importance in society and in and for the profession.
The journalist who does not read or are illiterate, for me to always be a danger to oneself as a neighborhood or competition because often the ethics and principles will not have the grandeur and the cardinality that cult journalist and humanist and cultivated.
4) The European school of journalism is what has always been my love, - (so far I am fan of documentaries Deutch Weller) - because I think and I known to be the most profound, more transparent, more beautiful, more professional. I like being part of the story, commit to it, so my practice of journalism I have called: JOURNALISM OF SOCIAL COMMITMENT , European journalism school because that is my strong point of reference.
current European newspaper has a lengthy history culture, fight, argument, critical thinking. The European Journalism shield was made and blood, persecution, hardship and a thousand tears, because it's journalism that is rooted party, and that if it is deep, pugnacious, dynamic and dying, but of course, committed, fearless and vibrant journalism.
The Anglo-Saxon journalism, "which is what was implemented in Peru," lends itself to corruption Mephistopheles, to the elegant sobonería, for cynicism imperceptible to the stiff formalísimo and deception and media scam like substance. This current journalistic Anglo-Saxon, it seems to me to be like those naughty nuns look, serious from the waist up and very happy from the waist down.
Lima, Monday, 14 September 2009
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