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Afraid I Have Brain Tumor
for 40 years appeared OPINION DAILY
The May 4, 1971 left the newspaper La Opinión , one of the great innovations of the printing press of Argentina twentieth century. Directed by Jacobo Timerman, who a few years earlier created other successes, the magazine Primera Plana and Confirmed , The Review was published to be expropriated by the dictatorship of self-styled National Reorganization Process. fragments Timerman's diary, notes the magazine Panorama , n º 206 of April 6, 1971 .
"Since the May 4 kiosks near the Capital, Greater Buenos Aires, La Plata and Cordoba host a new journalistic experience, unprecedented in Argentina. Next morning the four general information, poke a 24-page tabloid, less spectacular than those but at the same time more expensive. The Review, whose inspiration is Le Monde, Paris, one of the best newspapers in the world, tries to open a form of journalism is now limited to major world capitals: 'Ten News in a day are useful and understandable hundred bearable; billion, overwhelming, incomprehensible and unnecessary ', says Jacobo Timerman, editor of the publication.
This idea is, apparently, the launch of the newspaper. According Timerman 'world of journalism has opened a new stage: the journal of selective information and analysis, which does not attempt to address all issues surface but the fundamentals in depth. " That assurance prompted the operator of La Opinion to the informational areas divided into four areas: national policy, international arts and entertainment and general drafting. While the daily morning not display the composition of its staff, forty journalists from front-line professionals recruited from more capable medium-sign their reports on current topics. The commands in July Argañaraz, who occupy the sub, the other areas will be provided by Horacio Verbitsky, Juan Carlos Algañaraz, Juan Gelman and Miguel Bonasso, who will work with reporters Fanor F. Diaz, Milton Roberts, Eduardo Belgrano Rawson, Andrew Zavala, Hector Puricelli, Roberto Reyna, Carlos Ulanovsky, Felisa Pinto, Ricardo Halak, Juan José Ascone, Marcelo Capurro, Eduardo San Pedro, Pompey Camps, Juan José Castiñeira de Dios, Agustín Mahieu, Mabel Itzcovich, Paul Palant, Urondo Francisco, Carlos Tarsitano, Omar De Benedictis and coordinator Emilio Jeanerette.
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Installed on the third floor of Reconquista 585 (for which the company pays a monthly rent of 700 thousand pesos), the drafters intended to create an information source that satisfies the youth mainly concerned about this' exciting contemporary world, his excesses, his miracles, his pain. " To do so the photos are not necessary: \u200b\u200bthe journal devoted all his efforts to written information and, at best, the best location for the reader by means of maps that clearly and accurately illustrate the scene where he obtained the news.
balance. 'The challenge is to find a balance, "he muses Timerman," because the mass media, to overwhelm humanity with knowledge unnecessary and excessive and deprived of clear and simple explanations on the key issues, not the person to help guide their harmonious life. "
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Obviously, the paper addresses a class capable of oblar 50 or 60 pesos a day will cost the provision of news, including status means executives, traders, industrialists, academics, military and political. But the focus will be youth 'able to stop for a coffee to buy the newspaper. " The newspaper will not appear on Mondays and will be impossible to find over 24 pages of movie listings, the race program of San Isidro and La Plata, for example. The optics of the editors is aimed at beginning to 50 thousand readers that can be replicated over time. The order information will be strict, 'Do not complicate the life of the public with convoluted sentences, this newspaper will be a pleasure not a problem. " To do so, Timerman illustrates: 'When we mention a battle in a remote Egyptian village, he explains his political and military importance, so you do not need to run at a map or an encyclopedia to find out what happened. " The layout will not neglect detail: 'The information about Peru, Bolivia and Chile expected the director, will be on the same pages or on other contiguous. The Pope's statements are far from kidney transplants. We want the reader to concentrate on what they are reading without the need for efforts that will have done us instead. "
After eight months, The Review aims to sell about 60 thousand copies as a compensation for economic effort is estimated to be climbed to 320 million old pesos in operating expenses and another $ 60 million in startup. Capital ready to mobilize the tabloid is 200 million, the company directory will consist of Timerman himself, his wife and son Daniel. Also the other stem, Gustavo Javier will have something to do with the publication: May 4, day of the presentation in public, is ten years.
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The result of all efforts must coincide with that anticipates the director: 'Our attitude information, as well as selective and analytical is serene, scorns the sensationalism but also the feast. Believes that language is not a field of literary experimentation, but a vehicle for the transmission of facts and ideas'. "
Jacobo Timerman talks about La Opinión
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