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What they call "journalism"
By: Fernando Buen Abad: Every day more mediocre, more corrupt and more servile what they call "journalism", in the commercializing companies of "news" or "information", today constitutes one of the most degenerate capitalist ideological war machines ... degeneration is its failure and at the same time its betrayal. Its definition is revealed based on its distorting function and what should serve to guide society is, in reality, a business to disorient.
It is not the same "journalism" as news marketing. Although the perverse idea has been installed that only what newspapers sells is information, and with this chairs, careers, postgraduate courses and specialties have been created ... although the idea that "journalism" is the mercenary art of sell the pen to the highest bidder ... although the pilgrim criterion prevails that a journalist is a trustworthy merchant ... and, although he is crushed with the fallacy that journalism is the demagogic art of bourgeois "objectivity" ... the truth is that what they call and they practice how "journalism" in newspaper companies is a commodity more subject to the worst laws of capitalism. The workers know it well.
The events generated by social, economic, political, artistic, cultural life ... based on their historical engine, which is the class struggle, cannot be privatized by any commercial maneuver, even if it is capable of converting them, according to their interests, into "Information" or "news". Daily events (occur when they occur) as a result of social relations, until now divided into classes, in addition to requiring scientific records and analysis, require clarifying, creative and emancipatory narrative capacity, to contribute to raising the level of collective consciousness even in solving individual problems. The task of producing journalistic analysis and information, in addition to being daily ethical parxis, must be an organizing work for the transformation of the world. This was done by John Reed himself.
In the companies that have made information a capricious commodity and unfair to the truth, the work of "journalists" has been deformed to the shame of slavery of thought and the exploitation of people forced to betray conscience (individual and collective ) about reality. There is daily information embezzlement against all common sense and the intelligence of information workers is humiliated by subjecting them to increasingly mediocre, corrupt and mafia business principles and purposes. The Inter-American Press Association knows this story well.
In schools there are not a few tendencies determined to "train" cheap, meek and uncritical labor ready to swallow, with academic disguise, the most aberrant working conditions in exchange for illusions of bourgeois fame, the prestige of peddlers and, of course , profitability of very creative accomplices when it comes to making the hardest truths invisible, criminalizing those who struggle to emancipate themselves and ensuring the sales of the "news." University degrees of "journalist" tainted with capitalism and its hatred, even if it is necessary to lie, slander or kill. So it is necessary to sponsor coups or assassinations. We have seen them and we see them daily. For TV, for the web, for radio ... for print.
Dignifying the work of the "journalist" is an enormous social challenge that is not solved only in a "unionist" way, or only with "excellent education", or only with "good will". It is about a profession, a trade and a political task ... stuck in the swamp of ideological warfare and bourgeois media warfare. Dignifying the definition and function of journalist includes very diverse factors that start from the concrete basis of fighting against alienated work and against the extreme ideological unhealthy conditions in which, under capitalism, it develops.
Dignifying journalistic work implies undertaking, on a daily basis, a revolution of conscience and action that return to news production its socialist soul and its power as a tool to emancipate consciences ... it therefore implies giving back to "journalism" its compasses and its responsibilities on the path of the revolution.
This implies programmatic, organizational and disciplinary demands whose basis is the class struggle and whose praxis must go alongside the emancipatory struggles of the working class. Enough that any clown capable of publishing, under any method and means, his scoundrels calls himself a "journalist" at the cost of degenerating the truth that belongs to everyone. Stopping them in their tracks implies scientific and political development to conquer a professional and militant power capable of putting itself at the service of the class that will emancipate humanity. That is your best place. This implies promoting new schools, new styles, revolutionary syntax, communication and consciousness. This implies promoting new generations of journalism workers emancipated from the logic of the information market. Nothing less.
Now that we are sickened by the impudence and impunity with which the masters and their "journalistic" servants exhibit their ubiquitous scoundrels, we must strengthen ourselves to fight them. Now that nausea is shaking us and the irrationality of the information market is becoming a coup and assassination command, all over the world, it is necessary to organize ourselves in a democratic, plural and combative way. Now that the fiercest attacks of the commercial mafias that sell "newspapers" are being deployed against the truth of the peoples in struggle and against their most expensive achievements ... we require unity and organized action from below as the supreme ethical cause.
Now that the media mafias are allying and forming their army of "journalists" to bombard us with missiles of insults and lies ... we must make "journalism" a front that is rigorous in its principles and adaptable in its organization to openly join all the forces of emancipatory communication where unrestricted revolutionary collaboration is fostered. At least. Thus, what they call "journalism" will, very soon, cease to be a bastion of ill-fated mercenaries customary of lies to become, once and for all, a creative tool of truth at the service of the Revolution. And there are already many workers advancing on that route. Daily.
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