The Paper World Cup: Tuesday, June 8th

Thursday, August 5, 2010

Tuesday, June 8th

Tanzania, fans, still, and small
attention to the World Cup, in Europe

In the last test before the World Cup,
the Seleção beats a weak and tired Tanzania
Folha de S.Paulo - São Paulo - SP - Brazil

Kaká is fit, relief for Dunga

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

I'm not worried, but anxious

O Globo - Rio de Janeiro - RJ - Brazil

Ready?

Lance! - São Paulo - SP - Brazil

The drastic German adjustment
plan

threatens the European growth

El País - Madrid - Spain

The scandal of
the fans,

in two aspects

Clarín - Buenos Aires - Argentina

Under vigilance,
fans threaten the same way

La Nacion - Buenos Aires - Argentina

Popular, for millions

Die Welt - Berlin - Germany

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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.