Muntazer al Zaidi, an unidentified Iraqi reporter, took courage on 14 and threw his shoes at Bush at a news conference. The angry journalist vented his anger against the U.S. president had enough of their policies in the Middle East. One reason that has made him a hero of the Arab and Muslim world, although its performance has led him to prison. I imagine that in his cell and al-Zaidi will be weighed if his reaction was worth it. At least, I think, not left wanting, the same as the other information professionals and content we have on numerous occasions during the course of our work at the battered face the day.
Good for decency, either to maintain employment, either for lack of guts, a home has been consumed by anger, frustration, fatigue and poor milk more times than I can remember, and face it, journalists us plenty of reasons to get up in arms.
The journalist who is calling or what is or what is in error. Those who have jobs complain about low wages, slave schedule, information for that degradation of raw quantity over quality ... The one who does not beg to get what it says while his family to study for a post worker in the state.
The journalist is a rare specimen, suffers in silence while his ordeal work reports the hardships of other professions. Shortly beyond the layoffs in the media (especially in the world in Spanish), and the implications these job cuts on the credibility of a newspaper, television or radio. It seems that nobody cares.
Although journalism is the fourth power, the helpless journalist is exposed to the harsh reality that wants to tell and sometimes devouring. This profession, like the snuff causes serious injury to health.
So far this year have killed 50 journalists on duty, many of them in Iraq and Afghanistan, 
but also in Mexico and Bolivia. In the last ten days a cameraman was attacked in Bolivia , a photographer in Venezuela , a reporter in Argentina , a group of protesters threatened to kill other journalists in Peru and some street vendors attacked in Colombia against other professionals.
In Spain, layoffs happen, either direct ( What? , 20 Minutes , to cite two examples) or indirect, that is, non-renewal of temporary contracts.
A situation that in this European country is blurred between the lines in the context of the economic crisis and unfortunately does not follow the American example, where the thing goes beyond anything else.
Two hundred layoffs in Detroit , 600 in the Canadian group Sun Media , or twenty in the U.S. national USA Today .
An unfortunate trend of downsizing that has taken in response the creation of a community social networking site Twitter , where you can learn to hit short message real-time and who else have put out into the street.
If ever a country where the journalist is respected and not be considered a type of low confidence or low moral character that is the United States (at least when compared to elsewhere), perhaps more usual to hear from what happens with informants beyond the collusion between media groups to silence their dirty laundry.
It is therefore possible that employees of the newspaper The Rocky Mountain News (Denver, Colorado) launch an SOS to the population to save their newspaper in the hope of finding the finance to enable them to continue their work and not close the centennial header.
There's even one in this world of bank bailouts has launched an emergency plan for journalists who lose their jobs.
Blogs.com The company created the " The TypePad Journalist Bailout Program "with the fired reporters offering free space on your server, and technical assistance, to exercise on the network.
It is true that the internet is not a haven for reporters, in fact the world of web journalists are the ones most likely to end up in jail , right where Muntazer al-Zaidi.
At this point, and valuing the knowledge that my words may come across my bones in jail, I imagine sharing a cell with the Iraqi journalist. I'm sure I could not help thinking that at least he vented his frustration to clean shoe.
