Many professional comedians have come to believe the fantasy of the jester telling the King uncomfortable truths. At least they recognise their condition as servants. As for the uncomfortable truths, they resemble those journalists who, far from telling any such thing, are the mouthpieces of dominant thought — in their case, of the fashionable aesthetic among the young media-consuming public, … Read more →
I admit I have been a consumer of mystery-industry products, especially in their radio format. The amenable manner in which they were presented on La Rosa de los Vientos, and the distance its host kept from the things being told there, made the programme an inviting way-station for the curious. Nothing like the sensationalist unease radiated by products such as … Read more →
It is almost a tradition that certain figures who appear often in the media — actors, artists, journalists — should declare with a crystalline smile and a victorious pride that they are lucky enough to practise the most beautiful profession in the world, and that ever since they were tiny children they had known their vocation was to tell stories. … Read more →