The Paper World Cup: Thursday, July 8th

Saturday, August 7, 2010

Thursday, July 8th

Spain in the final, for the first time. Germany, in the third-place play-off, the umpteenth time

The best Spain, in the final
El País - Madrid - Spain

The best of the World
(and sunday, World champions)

Marca - Madrid - Spain

Hail to Spain!

As - Madrid - Spain

No headline about the World Cup - edition finished before Germany 0 x 1 Spain

Die Welt - Berlin - Germany

The dream is over
Caramba, how good are the Spanish!
But we are proud of your youth!

Bild - Berlin - Germany

Once, inattentive

Bremer Nachrichten - Bremen - Germany

The World Cup will have
an inedited champion

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

An inedited World champion

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

Spain, finalist with
a football lesson

Clarín - Buenos Aires - Argentin
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Spain, touch and passion to be
finalist for the first time in history

La Nacion - Buenos Aires - Argentina

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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.