Spanish journalism can be described as a beautiful disaster. This reality is as tangible as undesirable. While political parties and mass media professionals are having a love affair, gossip magazines and TV shows of the same sort are rising in audience as beer foam grows with a little shake. In fact, Spain, my Spain, the everlasting sunny country in southern Europe I take as my home, is the perfect country for catering and hotel management, but a problematic one for exercising journalism. On one hand, freelance journalists (not bloggers) are becoming an endangered species as the most brave and courageous are dying of old age. A special lack of independence dooms all mass media professionals as political parties exercise an enormous power of influence over biased information. The general reading levels of our citizenship undergo one of the worst periods in history, just as public education keeps getting bad grades from international observers; plus, a concrete absence of initiative darkens most young people’s participation in public debate. From bad to worse, several cases of censorship related to terrorism and the monarchy have been also making the entire sector tremble as new limits to freedom of speech have shaped the communications scene unexpectedly. Indeed presently, Spanish journalism is disastrous for both biased professionals and independent young media creators because the first ones must follow the corrupt hidden rules and the later must avoid, at all costs, the assumption of the pre-established dynamics.
 Nevertheless, as much contradicting as it may sound, the disaster is beautiful. Beautiful because the meaning of journalism - that is, of meticulously communicating vivid realities, of fighting against silence and manifesting that lies are worse than oblivion - can be still reconstructed by a new generation of young romantic visions that worship action, reject passivity and yet are trained for the use of new technologies.
The only thing we’re missing is the avid spirit of initiative. Consequently, when it comes down to really explaining the meaning of being a journalist in Spain, one must allude to this extraordinary trait. However, initiative is not the only void we have: rigorousness, impartiality, ethics and independence equally stand out for their absence in the common youth Spanish culture and even so in most journalistic manifestations. 
The historical process towards this reality has involved, above all, a political past marked by repression as two dictatorships have ruled Spain in the last century. Democracy is still much of a young system. But if us, journalists from the new generation decide to express ourselves “breaking the rules” by being independent, rigorous, with high morals and a clear understanding of what our task is in reality, we can make the change. The best question we shall answer promptly is: “ What will it mean to be a journalist in my country in the future?”