Espacio Exterior: marzo 2007

"[Journalism] is to spread the information that someone does not want anyone to know, the rest is propaganda. The function of journalism is to put into the light what is hidden, to be a witness and, therefore, to disturb. Journalism has info sources, but not friends. What journalists can exercise, and through them the society, is the mere right to complain, as equitable and documented as possible. Journalism has to criticize everything and everyone, add salt to the wound, and pebbles in the shoe. Journalism must view and say the wrong side of everything, that for the good side handles the press office; for neutrality, the Swiss; for the golden mean, philosophers; and for justice, the judges. And if they do not handle ... what fault has the journalism?" Horacio Verbitsky, journalist.