Ryszard Kapuscinski
The famed writer, journalist and essayist Polish Ryszard Kapuscinski died on Tuesday, January 23, 2007 in Warsaw, at 75 years old, victim of a serious illness for which he underwent last Saturday , reported the newspaper.
Born March 4, 1932 in Pinsk (now Poland), Kapuscinski studied History and Art at the University of Warsaw, however, was devoted to journalism throughout his life.
had collaborations in publications such as Time, The New York Times and Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, and was a war correspondent for Polish Press in Africa, Asia and Latin America from 1958 to 1981. During those years, Kapuscinski covered 17 revolutions in 12 different countries.
addition to his journalistic work, also excelled in the field of literature. Kapuscinski was the author of 19 books, with sales of nearly one million copies or so. Obtained el doctorado Honoris Causa en 1997 por la Universidad de Silesia.
A Kapuscinski le preocupaba más la desinformación en nombre de la objetividad que la pérdida de objetividad; al fin y al cabo uno es objetivo, no por ser objetivo, sino para informar. Ese gran propósito es el que Ryszard veia en peligro en este tiempo: "Hoy al cronista que llega de hacer una cobertura, su jefe no le pregunta si la noticia que trae es verdadera, sino si es interesante y si la puede vender". Y agrega Ryszard: "Es el reemplazo de una ética por otra. ése es el cambio más profundo que se está dando en el mundo de los medios".
Anterior a cualquier discusión sobre objetividad y subjetividad, está el hecho de la información Kapuscinski exact observed when comparing their data on the massacres in Rwanda in 1994, with the story built on television, found indignantly, "That building was the only fictional and remained there. As that increasingly virtual stories take the place of the real world in our imagination. " This is the context in which Kapuscinski highlights a way of approaching the truth that should be given the balance between the subjective and the objective and capable of addressing the business pressures that seek to convert the news into a commodity and an accomplice journalist asset of this degradation and deceit. According to Kapuscinski all this changes when the journalist becomes witness. Ojala Kapuscinski had been in Oaxaca, Atenco, Lazaro Cardenas, Mexico City, or the other ignorant of Mexico that many Mexicans voluntarily or involuntarily. Then his exclamation: "For me I had been given the chance to witness and chronicler of that event" makes sense because this would be the command to act, witness and chronicler of our reality then.
MEXICO JUST ONE and without rancor, SIN MEXICO BY LIBERALS AND CONSERVATIVES,? Fundemos The Fourth Republic! 
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