Just as if I had unlimited free time on my hands instead of none, I have decided to start a new blog on media. Tinta Idiota is a blog in Spanish about the digital revolution and journalists I admire and loath.
Why “idiot ink”? Because, paraphrasing Hölderlin, we are geniuses when we think, but idiots when we write. (Particularly if we are journalists, you might add.) Additionally, because of the volatile state of media, the printed word looks at times sad and stupid, while digital ink looks presumptuos, unstable and stupid. And, last but not least, because of those first verses in Dylan’s “Idiot Wind.”
As journalists, we are idiots, babe. It’s a wonder we can even feed ourselves.
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José Simián (1975) is a New York-based bilingual writer, producer and reporter. His articles and columns on politics, media and culture have been published by the New York Daily News, Mediaite, The Huffington Post, Sports Illustrated Latino, Billboard en Español, Latina, Qué Pasa, Etiqueta Negra, La Tercera and El Mercurio. He is also the host and producer of Contraportada, a weekly interview segment with Latino artists and intellectuals on 24-hour news cable station NY1 Noticias, and Executive Editor of Manero. Before becoming a writer, José worked as a lawyer (JD Universidad de Chile, 2002; LLM Columbia University, 2005) and taught Jurisprudence and Law and Literature in Chile. He lives in Brooklyn.
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