Saturday, October 20, 2007

South Park Heroes Of Might

The two sides of same coin


Until two weeks ago, probably almost no one knew where the Myanmar (formerly Burma), which was his untenable political situation and who it was Aung San Suu Kyi, Nobel Peace Prize in 1991, under house arrest by the Burmese military regime. Like a train in full swing, we were overwhelmed by the wave of protest led by local Buddhist monks. Suddenly Rangoon are focused on the goals by the media around the world. But there is someone that is not enough. Scornful of danger, armed with a machine and in the midst of the protest is spreading a photographer from the "Rising Sun" with the sole purpose of documenting best doing what he can. Photographing. Aware of the ban given to the military to fire on those who represent the highest authority "moral and spiritual world of Buddhism, the reporter tries to defend himself by using this invisible shield. But suddenly the unexpected happens: the orders are subverted and the Army is authorized to fire on the crowd to disperse. Make costs less than 80 people. between the protesters and the panic victim in this is also the photographer with almond-shaped eyes that nothing can Take up a weapon against those stronger than his own. All incorporated under the merciless eyes of a camera.

agonizing, cruel, cruel. But pictures and REAL REAL tremendously. This is the double-edged sword that the network offers us the possibility to remove filters and get straight to the heart of the information. Are a thousand facets of this powerful medium that is the web: some define it as a means of dangerous and destructive that can attack the veracity of message. Personally, I oppose this point of view which, though respectable, I think questionable: the genuineness and the communicative power of a camera in the middle of an event, or macabre to be auspicious, the Sublime Porte to the next level easily accessible from the "classic" routes traveled so far. The risk for a whole category is to suddenly find themselves squeezed out by the real "new world" no longer expects the news behind the desk, the new figure matches that of the journalist who called into question, breaking the royalties that characterize so far the profession. To paraphrase an adage, it can be said that the journalist, more and more, becomes "Fortunae faber suae."

The great interactive media that the world offers us, can be challenging to make a statement and examine two variables: the desire to go in search of the news event in its truest and most exquisitely genuine, the possibility to inform an audience exponentially more extends beyond television, such as the web. These are two of the discriminant that, with the passage of time will bring the "information level" to assume a global value added increased to reach that "something" that will allow more people to upgrade, even "live". Interactivity and multimedia are the watchwords which can not be ignored.



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