Every link is a portrait or a mirror and life grows when it communicates. We come together to create. There is a collective conscience that disposes us to talk, to listen, to reach agreements. It is invented since the beginning of time. Differences are reconciled when there is group action, when the path is the union of talents and efforts around the common interest. History provides countless moments and nation processes that began with everyone’s trust. In the union of generations around a consensus. Every anthology is personal, but social life takes place between communicated beings that vibrate.
The nut of that coming and going of the country with its desires, joys and crossroads, is being recorded in the stories told by newspapers and magazines, broadcast on the radio, or enter the chapter of memories of unforgettable images on television or current formats of the digital world. The good, the bad and the ugly of a diverse and critical nation that is always on display. The media have been there to say so. It is part of everyday life that is kept in the closet of memories, and the duty of those who had the privilege of telling it. The chroniclers of yesterday and today who are weaving the pieces of the puzzle. The breviary of the news that is amplified.
This is a challenging time. An hour of decisions. The pandemic continues to gravitate as a random and uncertain enemy. Economies continue to suffer, needs grow, interest groups diversify, violence reappears. There are enough reasons to join the defense of a right, or of all, accompanied by the conviction of believing and trusting in free and responsible communication as an authentic value. Technology changed the world, but fake news and bias also lurk with their echo chambers. In contrast, there are examples of collaboration, fair competition, fair play or union around the fire of higher interests, which deserve to be known or recounted.
Life is made up of opposites that manage to transfer dissent; of productive coexistence between differences and affinities. Communicating to unite and uniting in communication Like an encircling thread facing the country and its democratic challenges, it is an invitation to delve into this special created to understand and verify that, among Colombians, there is much more that unites us than what separates us. It is also supported by the brands that accompany us and share their space and their messages. It is also the occasion to vindicate the sixty years of the Colombian Information Media Association (AMI), an organization that believes in Colombia and that, through the journalism of its members, has shown its lights and its darkness.
Colombia Unida, where differences can live, is also a recognition of the inspiring principle that today moves the country’s newsrooms that have been reconstituted after the pandemic: collective creation. It is in the debate in the editorial boards, in the corridors of the media or in the back rooms of journalism, where the stories that summarize us as a country germinate. Those that are delivered here constitute an inciting inventory to read, hear or see, thinking that social union is possible as a reunion compass against indecision. Those of a society that, by uniting, can face the ups and downs of history with common firmness.
Thus, all the member media of the Colombian Association of Information Media (AMI) join in this special editorial, to contribute to this purpose, working together, sharing content and agreeing that with what we manage to do together we multiply and contribute more.
