The Paper World Cup: Sunday, July 4th

Saturday, August 7, 2010

Sunday, July 4th

Maradona bids farewell after
his Argentina looses to the efficient Germany: 0 x 4

Argentina
The fantasy

is over

Clarín - Buenos Aires - Argentina

The worst final for a fantasy

La Nacion - Buenos Aires - Argentina

It was beautiful while it lasted

Página 12 - Buenos Aires - Argentina

They cut our veins

Olé - Buenos Aires - Argentina

4 : 0

Frankfurter Allgemeine - Frankfurt - Germany

1954, 1974, 1990, ...

Der Tagesspiegel - Berlin - Germany

Historic massacre

Folha de S. Paulo - São Paulo - SP - Brazil

Germany humiliates Maradona's Argentina

O Estado de S. Paulo - São Paulo - SP - Brazil

Welcome, hermanos

Jornal da Tarde - São Paulo - Brazil

4 x 0
Humiliated

Lance! - São Paulo - SP - Brasil

Germany in
World Cup's inebriation

Kurier - Vienna - Austria

Striking victory

The Miami Herald - Miami - FL - United States

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In August, 7th, 1945, newspapers around the World reported the use of a “nuclear artifact” on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. At that time, was commom to read the news with expressions like “extraordinary advance of technics” and “admirable proof ot the human savoir-faire”. But it was unusual, in that august day, to see newspapers talking about the human casualties. Later, this perspective was reversed, and today the “technics advance” the bomb represented (almost) matters to nobody. The loss of thousands of lives, rather, placed in the center of the history, that may be rewritten. The newspapers, however, can’t.

In a moment that is predicated the end of the printed press - and even the book in paper - what is the point of writing a blog on the front pages of newspapers, during a World Cup?

Over time, perhaps, none - except to researchers who, at dawn, alight their eyes on what, long before, was important for people who, perhaps, aren't in this life anymore. Because of this the newspaper continues to be, perhaps, one of the most enduring sources to try to understands (or to confuse more and more) a time, to understand the dimensions of facts that, later, will jump from diaries to the pages of the History books.

The Paper World Cup is not a blog about the World Cup, nor on the press. Rather, it's about the intersection of these two elements, on the approaches that even with globalization, are still so different from one place to another. And it's, sure, about football too.

If the newspaper and the paper book will go away, nobody knows. Or almost nobody - the future belongs to the Octopus Paul.