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The Fear Journalism

no doubt that the overrated journalist Constanza Santa Maria, in her obvious professional obsession, passed one of the titles that more would help ease their paroxysmal style of journalism. A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper of John Allen Paulos is not in your library and probably never crossed his eyes. A pity, because it would have done much. She and we anxiously viewers of his chronicles in which the words risk, danger, care, threat, alarm and distress campaigns like a blanket claim that stalks the unwary public.
Because in one chapter, the mathematical denounced this as fruitful as unholy alliance between journalists and lawyers, especially those representing people who say they suffered losses because of defective products or services-to which the pupil of the school newspaper of the PUC seems to have adhered while.
Allen begins by recognizing that, surely, most of these complaints are justified, but puts his moral criticism that naive that Santa Maria and all the disciples of journalism of fear bathe his notes that all the dangers we are exposed could be avoided if only those responsible to think a little more, if the "authorities" and monitoring more citizens were more alert:

- No one can deny the terrible anguish of the families and friends, but I'd like to see even if only once, some serious journalistic work saying "All this is very tragic, but what would modify policy to reduce the chances of such tragedies without increasing the chances of others? " (...) The pain of the victims and the compassion that arises all too often used to justify the absurd requirement that should never have risks. "

- The uncertainty in science, and current state sometimes unavoidable, but judges, lawyers and jurors often behave as if to respond definitively to all the witnesses were sufficient to reflect the experts have time to do their calculations and the lifting of the lids.

- In one experiment, for example, told a group of subjects that a man had parked a car on a slope and that the vehicle had slid only to a fire hydrant. Another group was told that the vehicle had run over a pedestrian. The first group thought, in general, who had been an accident, the second group considered responsible for the driver. Important consequences that have to be the result of significant neglect is a superstition lovely.

Regarding the latter, I wish I read this all the generals after the battle that appeared after the inauguration of Transantiago. All those who shout themselves hoarse pointing the finger at the "authorities" for not having foreseen all the circumstances a radical change in urban life entails. All those who are offended by the supposedly stupid decisions that caused the problems raised without ever wonder what would have happened if the decision had been the opposite (would they be able to assure me that there had not been the same problems or other?).

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De anti-abortion organizations



is not uncommon assume that the national press without further questioning concepts cheats communication consultants like me, we tend to invent. She swallows everything with extreme ease to what custom has not prepared to counter.
One of these concepts is "pro-life organizations." pro-life groups refused shortage pressures for pill, reports Radio Cooperativa, " pro-life groups promulgation of the standard expected to go to court against the freezing of embryos " publishes the newspaper El Mercurio . Both media whose editorial may explain almost legitimate to use this docility.

But the efficiency of the true horse of Troy, is such that Raul Gutierrez, editor of the libertarian and pluralist granvalparaiso.cl, writes that "pro-life The option taken by the previous governments in Chile should complement .. . "or on the website of the Chilean Communist Party point out that" in turn are based on current Integralists Catholic employers and the right of Chileans (opus Dei, pro-life) ".
"pro-life organizations? But why should we call it an institution s whose only stated goal is to oppose any regulation of abortion. How many m interfere with manifestations anti-death penalty have starred in the "pro-life organizations? Do not recall hearing any of them act outraged by the execution of Saddam Hussein, as if listening to representatives of Amnesty International-an organization that itself could be defined as an organization just right pro-life. What is the opinion of these organizations on the destruction of ecosystems and the disappearance of species, on the wars in different parts of the world, on the application the pe na capital? Death, death, death ... Where are then the "pro-life organizations?
not be so silly. Communicating is already a complex enough process to do more absurdly confusing. The anti-abortion organizations are just that: anti-abortion organizations .

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The democratic press as Channel 13



With the very Christian and be an objective reference, Channel 13 has just delivered a memorable piece of inexplicable concept of democratic press. "How did they live Pinochet's death two women politically opposed? "in the program On everyone's lips, he wanted to introduce the former dictator from two perspectives: that of a supporter of Salvador Allende and Augusto Pinochet another. With this, our Catholic channel intended to base its impartiality, objectivity and attachment to what is supposed to be a quality press showing two contrasting looks on the political figure of ex-dictator Pinochet, who finally opened the possibility of a reunion.
What Channel 13 has not understood and not understood as never remains as erratic and diffuse editorial is that a democratic press is not one that presents the opposing views supposed objectivity of a certain reality. Or perhaps we should discuss whether or not the sun rises in the west just because someone says so? A democratic press is one that is defined as such, among other things because there is no democratic press: this is called propaganda.
for a real democratic press the figure of Pinochet and his government can not simply portrayed as a debate on the positive side of the dictatorship versus the negative side. Because the debate of whether a dictatorial government is good or bad is not debate: any dictatorship is bad. Debating whether the government of Allende was good or bad, I bet it was bad, but a democratic press is unable to provide the same quality of debate to a dictatorship. Because if so one would expect to see a debate "objective" about whether the government of Hitler was good or bad. Expect them to give him minutes of screen to all those who deny the Holocaust and Nazi militarism defend as an effective national policy recontrucción.

(Originally published in the blog 15/12/2006 Ne-Yo)