Oh my God! This is a tough task. I think that I really like journalism. But sometimes I feel that I'm not learning too much in the classes. So, that makes me be in a constant crisis. Anyway, by now I think that I'll keep studying journalism.

Well, well, I have to say why I like journalism. First of all, I love to write and I think that I do it well. I love to read. I read novels, investigations, essays... everything! I like to take photos too. Those three elements makes me keep wanting to be a journalist.

I think that journalists have a big responsability in the society. We have to tell the truth to the people. We have to try to show diferent realities to the people, too. Make them go out of their "bubble". I think that the point is to have a well-informed society. So they can make the right choices. Sadly, lots of journalists have forgotten all those things. And they seem to be writing for the "big misters", for the "powerfuls". Most of the time, they're not showing what is really happening. They lie and we all know that.

Chilevisión, for example. Its news bulletin (Chilevisión Noticias) is always full of histories about thefts. They show Chile as we were in a civil war. All that you can see in the news bulletin is blood (and football, of course). And if you ask why do they do that? I have a simple answer: "darling, you have to know who is the owner of that channel and what particular role he wants to be in".

The last things are NOT the tools that a journalist need to have. A great journalist have to be honest, responsable and (dreaming is for free) independent. We have to write orderly. The idea is that people understand us. We have to be creative and have a broad vocabulary.

And well, I like the cultural journalism. I'd be happy writing about art, photography, design and literature. I love to write about psychological matters, too. But, definetly what I love to do is to write about people that gives us a lesson. I love to break stereotypes and to show how magical the life is understanding and accepting our differences.


Ps: Miss Paula: Sorry for not being in the class today. I'm terrible sick. So I preferred to write this from my comfortable bed and not from a cold classroom. See you in class!
Ricardo.-

I really don't know if this is the best photograph of Annie Leibovitz, but I definetly like it. Especially the expression on the woman's face and the black and white effect. I think that black and white gives something special to the photos... a melancholic atmosphera that I love. Although there are times when a photo has to be in colour, the black and white effect is never "out of fashion".

My selected photo shows a woman with a disinterested expression on her face. The woman is in a forest with trees full of flowers. She is all dressed in black, sit in a chair by a table. On the table there is a glass with a black liquid inside. It could be just Coke, but it could be another thing too. I really don't know when the picture was taken.

I started my entry saying that I was not sure if this is the best photo of Leibovitz. Now I'm going to explain why. This photo is part of a book called Women. That book is full of woman's portraits. They're all magnificents so it's hard for me to pick just one. All the photos are of women that have a great story to talk about. The book shows that women can do anything, from the littlest thing to the bigger one. In fact, there are photos of great politicians in the book. It has also a essay written by Susan Sontag. She was an american philosopher who was engaged with Annie the last years of her life.

Leibovitz has also made a lot of beautiful photos for important magazines, such as Rolling Stones, Vogue and Vanity Fair. They're all great too. But that is part of another story.

I hope you have the time to see some of the Lievobitz's photos. You will not regret.