SUSPIRO DE ALIVIO PERIODISTICO

Justo cuando pensaba que mi trabajo como periodista conceptualmente estaba listo para irse al caño, cuando pensaba que el periodismo como tal estaba acabado, cuando creía que los periodistas sólo nos queda colgar la toalla ante el tumultuoso tráfago de blogs y periodistas ciudadanos que parecen tomar por asalto la red.

Llega Andrew Sullivan, uno de los bloggers y periodistas más importantes y veteranos de los Estados Unidos y dice lo siguiente:

A traditional writer is valued by readers precisely because they trust him to have thought long and hard about a subject, given it time to evolve in his head, and composed a piece of writing that is worth their time to read at length and to ponder. Bloggers don’t do this and cannot do this—and that limits them far more than it does traditional long-form writing.

Pero agrega algo más (y que es lo que más me llena de esperanza):

In fact, for all the intense gloom surrounding the news-paper and magazine business, this is actually a golden era for journalism. The blogosphere has added a whole new idiom to the act of writing and has introduced an entirely new generation to nonfiction. It has enabled writers to write out loud in ways never seen or understood before. And yet it has exposed a hunger and need for traditional writing that, in the age of television’s dominance, had seemed on the wane.

Words, of all sorts, have never seemed so now.

Y para mí, eso me llena de esperanza.