Utopian and Utopia

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Today utopia is everything that is supposed to be much beyond the horizon, beeing this one also not tangible. 

Journalism with realy exemption? Utopia.

Democratization of mass media? Utopia.

Democratization of the matters versus the “black out of information”, expression used by the coordinator of a research in a Public University of California about the most censored themes in the USA in the present time? Utopia. 

 

Edição # 9 - december, 2003.

A journalism that does not need to be submitted to the interests of the sponsors that supports it? Utopia. 

Heretics, magicians, insanes, utopian people, radicals, idealists, in the sense of people who search for an ideal that can not be reached. As centuries pass by, the names are changed, but the exclusion of the pattern, of the normality, of the demanding but valid order is maintained. 

But it was the heretics who “rounded” the Earth and “flattened” the pooles. The magicians “pushed” it a bit out of the center of one of the solar systems. The insanes “gave” the Earth more impulse and it began to revolve. Then everything went too fast, transforming and impressing people, and the utopian persons were placed between the “Time is Money” of the Industrial Revolution and the “Imagine all the people” of John Lennon. 

Today, discarding good and evil doctrines, with no good or bad guys, with no conscious individual versus mean system, we can see some human being giving their best to keep the ability to criticize, to give opinion, to question what, where, how, when, why, for whom... Even if and rotation are each day faster, each day more disordered. Even if the machines spin frenetically, giving no conditions for the transmitted message to be properly absorbed. 

Concepts and numbers fade in the air, all is statistics, everyone is expert, but no one guarantees anything. Yet, the credibility of the centenarian newspaper is the support for many news, data, patterns, versions... 

And so, citing Eduardo Galeano, the utopia, though too far to be touched, is at least a horizon that makes us give a step forward and then another and another and... 

... here is Fazendo Media in it’s 10th. Edition.


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