My article this month.
Saving Private Bush
Jesus Gerardo Monroy
erathora@gmail.com
Before leaving the U.S. president, George Bush II came to visit on Sunday December 14 in the country that invaded and destroyed: Iraq, where thousands of Americans and a million Iraqis have been massacred. No sooner had he stepped on Baghdad, the president-emperor held a press conference, but this was interrupted by one of the audience to be heard in loud voices: here's a gift from Iraqi people, take your kiss goodbye, dog! The two became man shoes skimming Bush's ears while Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Kamal al-Maliki, was preparing to protect the face of "gringo" with their hands. This is part of widows, orphans and all those who have died in Iraq! , he again heard a cry Arabic. Mal recovered from his surprise, the guards set upon Bush Muntazer Al-Zaidi, 29, Iraqi reporter who serves as the satellite television channel Al-Bagdadiya.
are the facts. The following are interpretations of facts.
director Milenio Diario, Carlos Marin, is the author of a column, The assault on reason , which reviewed the incident in Baghdad on Tuesday 16 ("Sequel to the Zapatazos"), on Thursday 18 ("espadazo to zapatocaso ") and Friday 19 (" The streams of Al-Zaidi. ") The lazy column Marin rarely extends beyond two or three short paragraphs, but 18 and 19 were especially relaxed for the columnist, it limited its work to copy an article from the English newspaper El Mundo ("barefoot journalism" Wednesday 17) signed by Arcadi Espada. Phrases selected by Marin says Espada -After qualifying as a "mess" the action of Al-Zaidi ": "[...] I would not have left the prison I had behaved with the same uninhibited luxury that my colleague [Al-Zaidi]. I missed (or miss me) desire. But obviously, the journalist in a press conference before installing liars, corrupt murderers should not remove their shoes [...]. Muntazer Al-Zaidi did nothing to break a sacred principle of their profession: the inability to become news. "
Who is this swordsman of journalism, he asks the Mexican reader, who is this gentleman diagnosed Sword "mess" an Iraqi exasperated and barefoot? Where followed the ethics lessons in good time is sentenced to give us?
The scholar and photographer
Excelsior newspaper, which published the December 1 interview with him in the supplement mole Code, presents Enériz Arcadi Espada (Barcelona, \u200b\u200b1957) as an "academic and journalist used to reflect the subject [sic] [of terrorism] with sententious tone, and solid critical [sic]. The student of communication and journalism professor at the University Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, \u200b\u200balthough often controversial (as when published criticism of a photograph taken by Pulitzer Prize Javier Bauluz) has been a contributor to newspapers like La Vanguardia, Barcelona, \u200b\u200bEl Pais and currently, The World. " Millennium Marin added in the blog * Sword is "highly respected and popular in Spain."
While generalizations which aims to rapidly introduce Mexican clientele in the world of sword (a small universe, we'll see), we can consider valid the Millennium and Excelsior statements just quoted. But the inquisitive reader requires us to be more precise, requires us to answer, for example, what was critical Arcadi and Javier Bauluz Excelsior which relates them to an alleged "controversial" Sword? Bauluz
had received the award in 2001 Godo photojournalism, by capturing the image of a man and a woman who was sunning on a beach in Cadiz in front of a dead immigrant. The image was published in the supplement The Magazine of the Catalan newspaper La Vanguardia, and on the cover of the New York Times. Arcadi, in his book Daily , test Espasa Prize 2002, reproduced the photo without permission Bauluz and derisively referred to as "essential demiurge" and "gentle man dedicated to professionally destroyed" as well as talk about "Docility that makes big guys like Bauluz, able to hunt rabbits like two swimmers unnoticed that they may be praying quietly over the body of an immigrant [...]; Fortunately, the body was not a poor white-not Bauluz would have taken much advantage. " Bauluz Espada accused of deliberately exclude from the photo staff of State in charge of collecting the body, so as to induce the illusion of closeness between the couple and the body. Excelsior
said that the "academic and journalist" is "controversial" less than that: Arcadi, is simply a liar. As never substantiate its charges proveyera against the photographer, the Consell de la Informació de Catalunya in May 2003 ruled that the statements of scholarship on Bauluz are "false, unfair and beyond reason" and violate the code of ethics of the journalistic profession in Catalonia. Espada, still recalls his articles sometimes conflict with Bauluz and still pondering his anger and shame.
But then there is the remark made Muntazer Al-Zaidi for breaking the "sacred principle of journalism is" the impossibility of building it becomes a news [...] himself with his own action calculated. Neglecting FACT (fact) and embracing his corruption, factoid: a fact that only exists if it displays. " Well, nothing else did on Gerona on "academic and journalist" (and political) Sword the June 5, 2006, when the head of the association acted Ciutadans de Catalunya provocations against the Catalan independence movement. Espada, other Ciutadans independence and its rivals have suffered physical and verbal, but the English press picked up the complaints only and nobody Ciutadans of Maulets (youth Catalan independence).
The assault on reason
Desinformado by "official versions", Carlos Marín misinform its readers. In his column on Friday, 19 says, "three days after launching his brash [Al-Zaidi] wrote to the Prime Minister acknowledging his country" is now too late to lament the huge and ugly action that I made, "but" I ask ...»". forgiveness However, a brother Muntazer, Uday, interviewed by Al-Bagdadiya, denied the U.S. and Iraqi presidents, whose "parts" Articles-based Marin: "My brother just told me that the government never sent apologies." Muntazer, Uday says, does not regret what he did.
Marín and Sword They complain that "the usual orgy of hypocritical" does not say anything (!) "Naturally" (?) On the treacherous use that would have given the Iraqi to his craft: "Muntazer Al-Zaidi he threw his shoes at Bush because he came to stand a few feet away, and access to that distance, so confianzuda and hearty, he gave his profession as a journalist. " But who else but a journalist is in Iraq the possibility of launching in the face of these truths pointed emperor who did not want to know? Have not you noticed Mexican English and the serious humanitarian crisis in which, for a wound bleeding our planet, global social crisis that George Bush II is the most notorious culprit?
In a situation of disease and poison, deep agony as we are facing, is it not too long time to keep our "keeping up appearances? Will we continue to perpetuate the split between the journalist and the citizen? At what point castrated journalists not to recognize the right of rebellion, a right which earns more than the shortness of the law?
George Bush, who should respond to a tribunal for crimes against humanity, will release the rest of his life, health joyful, full of riches. The young journalist who said, let the outrage itself reflective of a human being, but the inescapable wrath of a living creature, the young journalist is in jail, guilty of throwing a shoe.
* Blog: notebook is updated to suit the author via the Internet.
