Do not worry about us because we're dead

Juan Bautista Aznar, last head of government of Alfonso XIII, in a felicitous phrase summed up the seizure of the municipal elections on April 12, 1931: "Spain went to bed and woke republican monarchy?. The seizure, change, uncertainty and surprise of the population at that time are comparable to many journalists in the multimedia group called flicking their newspapers every morning to learn, before you put the shrimp, which are the watchwords of business the time and who are the friends and enemies who according to the newspaper's editorial line, if it has changed while they were sleeping. Nobody knows for sure when it started this systematic alignment behind the banners of the great publishing companies-small, fortunately, remain immune to this insidious disease - or when rennet is by military structure that makes well-meaning obsolete concepts of secrecy and professional conscience clause, careful carefully collected in the Spanish Constitution by Miquel Roca and other founding fathers that drive them. In that blessed Franco's political transition, missed by the naive and noble hopes that drew, each journalist had his own soul in his Almario, without any iron business is appropriate.

Therefore, in those days of nomadic freedom, journalists changed their business according to the dictates of their professional discretion and generous corporate claims. Now, however, with an ominous terminology imported from the racetracks, the journalists of the major groups belonging to a particular block or other change of iron and livestock can be interpreted as treason, felony, or even fall under suspicion of perversion even greater. Some assume that this new situation is a product of modernity, of consolidation, the emergence of media groups and the exchange of the ideological goals of the accounts. In fact, in the mid 90's there was already a professional split, not between old and young - is that there are old in this profession that causes havoc family, moral and cardiovascular? - Or between liberals and lift, which was what came to be in fashion for a short and safe season. The fracture separated the professionals according to the company in which they serve.

Fortunately, the climax of the conflict took me for a rewarding stay in New York, so that I did not get angry with anyone who had been taking drinks until the day before. But overall, it was not. In those days football wars and mergers and failures, there were journalists who entrusted them with books to discredit the contrary, then, for the sake of those agreements always take the heights changed over ordinary journalists, authors were overruled when not simply banned. Not better, precisely the situation from that day forward. We now live times of new markets, mergers and antitrust laws that affect some more than others and are nervous about everyone. Therefore, some troops media groups must be in a permanent state of magazine, as its military contribution may be required at any time. And there's to be distracted or simply consider a conscientious objector in the war! Many press offices, publishers and television producers today are full of defectors from the mandatory military service journalism. The situation has complicated the advertising crisis of the second half of 2001.

It turns out that the advertising pie, according to industry parlance, does not grow indefinitely. Increased distribute media including magazines led to the disappearance of, first, the crisis in on-line, then the nerves between the local media, later, and the downsizing of some newspapers, finally. Paradoxically, in addition, budget cuts do not affect the managers of media companies. Reach high office is a recognition of loyalty and services rendered without asking many questions about the emptiness of these. Thus, large companies are overflowing with more than 30 directors, I have come to count on any of them - while those fired without blinking fellows, staff without salary or contract garbage editors sometimes do not reach 400 euros a month. So I do not understand the continuing efforts of the younger generation in his steps toward journalism. Before this became fashionable career with the television series Lou Grant, Watergate, the advent of democracy, the delicious stories in the best time to Interviú and discovering all sorts of shenanigans, maybe he was right Jose Antonio Martinez Soler when he wrote that: "Please do not tell my mother that I am a journalist.

Tell him to work as a pianist in a brothel!?. Now, however, the work of journalists who survived the transmutation of this office as instrumented runs the risk of becoming something else. There is therefore reason to appeal to the compassion of readers, listeners or viewers. Do not worry about us, our business or how we exercise. Not worth it. Why worry for us if many, but not know it, we are already long dead?