The cover of Noise, the new book by Jose Maria "Chema" Salcedo, is a portrait of himself in Tajikistan, near the border of the then Soviet republic of Afghanistan, then red prey invasion. It was taken by the Chinese best fantasy books all time immortal Dominguez in 1987. It is a point in the middle of a town besieged by war. A portrait of violence palpable, despite a perfect picture of beauty. The Chema Salcedo is a longtime journalist who has come and gone in a wide variety of office tasks, sometimes in the same field where the events happen, sometimes from the radio booth, sometimes on the pulse of direct text, sometimes amid the ongoing conversation flowing like waterfall. His chamba has been intense, from reporter to newspaper editor and press correspondent. It has also been able to publish the Book of Suspicion (Ed. Norma, 2005) kind of essay on the secret story of power. In addition, his ongoing relationship with our Peruvian jungle has taken him to go into the audiovisual production. In 2008 she presented the documentary "Amazon Am" and prepares for a while the output of "Asháninka." This relationship, durable, has once again partner with New Earth for this book. In the foreword to the book, Chema said "I'm sorry to start this book talking about death. It happens that each generation chooses its corpses. Mine are the Uchuraccay. Are likely to touch corpses now I have not as important. But that is subjective. If that happens, it will be for their own dead bodies, but by me. " Salcedo said that there are always ghosts produced by the brain ("I am subject to one of those ghosts. It is the ghost of noise") where appropriate, take the form of tinnitus, as they are called to the sounds that the ear perceives no coming from an external source, something natural that has no cure. He jokes with it, its acoustic version of original sin. "The more I feel the ghosts sound is when the silence around me. My worst noise occurs because there is no noise. So I appreciate the noise. I avoid silences. ". Here is the origin of the name of the book, which are compilations, texts, transcripts of conferences Chema has done between 1992 and 2009. All together as a testimony of a party. Here some excerpts from texts that seem salient in the book. For example, in the neighborhood of three children (originally appeared in June 1993 in the journal Ideele), Salcedo writes. Then I knew that trying to humiliate is also a way of masking their own terror. Who rezondraba my mother had suffered the nightmare of a broken social order involuntarily for three children of different colors. I still was not socialized in terror. Thinking about calling me, near me. I saw the man crying. It was an old man. Her right hand rested on a rudimentary stick. With the other squeezing the shoulder of a child. At a stroke, I realized that the man was blind. A blind old man, amid the darkness, screaming my name. And yet, my name was not screaming. When I asked if I was calling, the man was surprised:. No, no, I am calling José María. He was referring to José María Arguedas, not me. I was explaining it without missing a beat and then, while inviting me something to drink in a rudimentary bodeguita. Maybe in my hurried return to Lima via Nazca, I lost the cassette to keep that conversation midnight. Violence is also included and the media in Peru, a lengthy and detailed essay that was part of an investigation led by the late priest Felipe Mac Gregor, published in 1993. Here a line on it:. One could ask whether the media in Peru are part of the problem or part of the solution or, rather, a bit of both: if the media is not also part of all social and individual factors that are eaten violence and if this is not impossible for them to help reduce that same violence. For its part, From the belly of the whale was a conference on culture and media in the country, which occurred in Congress in September 1999. Here some thoughts that struck me:. In communications, as in other things, we live to the age of transition. The media have the modesty to admit, listening to people, will be the best, because they will creatively accompanied that transition. Media will not merely transmitters. Will be common or not. Communication is roundtrip. It's people talking to people. Receptors are the devices. Communicators, people. This is one reason why I value the radio. Because using what I suspect must be a mental barbarism, has made me regress to orality. The word. That string of sounds that is the glorious sound of the soul of the people. That is the fundamental challenge. Collect the word. Will we listen?. Recommended books, in short, to learn more impressions of the office, informed opinions causes the lights and shadows of journalism, as well as testimony from professionals in the midst of noise in the swing of strangers, accelerated and thunderous times. This is an example of an