Meryl Streep da el poder al Cuarto Poder

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8/6/2025

Meryl Streep dio un discurso en el Comité para la Protección de Periodistas. Agradeció su trabajo, reflexionó sobre la violencia y los asesinatos de reporteros en México

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00:00Gracias.

00:15Gracias.

00:20You are the very first female broadcast journalist

00:25that I ever remember seeing on TV

00:27who was reporting from the ground

00:30from the most dangerous points of conflict in the world.

00:36And you are responsible for making my daughters think

00:39that there was nothing at all unusual in that.

00:42Those of us who grew up in the 60s when the narrative

00:54of serious journalism was always, always delivered in a baritone,

01:00we knew what a big deal it was and what a trailblazer you are.

01:04Christiane is the woman who made the safari jacket cute.

01:14So much so that poor Steve Bannon, in an attempt to be cute

01:23or to acquire some front-line authenticity has actually copped your look.

01:31Did you realize that?

01:34But as that crack investigative journal People magazine would ask,

01:40who wore it better?

01:42Anyway, I'm very, very privileged to be here on a night

01:52when we honor some of the bravest people in the world

01:56and celebrate this terrific, hardworking organization

02:01whose mission it is to safeguard them and their work.

02:06Joel Simon and the committee,

02:08I thank you very much for inviting me here tonight.

02:16Because I get to meet my heroes.

02:19I really came here tonight to thank you.

02:24That's all.

02:26Really.

02:28Thank you.

02:30Our nation turns its lonely eyes to you.

02:35You are the fourth estate.

02:37You are our first line of defense against tyranny and state-sanctioned news.

02:45Thank you, you intrepid, underpaid,

02:51overextended, trolled and unextolled, young and old, battered and bold, bought and sold,

02:59hyper-alert, crack-caffeine fiends.

03:02You're gorgeous, you're ambitious, contrarian, fiery, dogged and determined bullshit detectives.

03:19You're persevering, cool, objective, indefatigable, chronically fatigued,

03:27pharmaceutically-soothed, chocolate-comforted Twitter clickers.

03:32You are the enemy of the people.

03:36Yeah.

03:37Just the bad people.

03:39And I, on behalf of a grateful nation, thank you.

03:45I was at the Columbia School of Journalism,

03:56this spring for their scholarship award breakfast.

04:00And the dean there told me that there's been this gigantic uptick,

04:05an explosion, really, of applications at J schools all over the country,

04:09not just at Columbia.

04:12And I know you're thinking, oh, great.

04:19Young people.

04:22Young, brilliant people after my job.

04:24But the good news about the fire hydrant of news now

04:31is that there are plenty of stories.

04:32There's more than enough going around.

04:36And we, your burgeoning audience, we need every single story covered with care

04:45and ingenuity and relentless pursuit because everything counts.

04:50Everything counts, man.

04:53Like in a Chuck Close painting, you know, every single distinct pixel given a little distance,

05:02all taken together is going to paint the truth and a portrait of our time right now.

05:08Thank God for you.

05:10However, your business is very bad for my business.

05:16I have many, many friends who say, you know, I just don't go to the movies anymore.

05:23I don't even watch TV.

05:24I just, oh, my God.

05:28Did you see what happened today?

05:33And there has never been a more exciting, exhausting, and dangerous time

05:41to be an investigative journalist than now, especially, of course, for women.

05:49And I say, of course, because we do recognize the special cocktail of venom and ridicule,

05:58which is always tinged with sexual threat, that's served up online for women,

06:05any woman in any profession, who stands up to tell the truth.

06:11I revere the people who do this because I am not a naturally brave person.

06:21I think standing up in front of a thousand people who are smarter than me

06:25and presuming to tell them anything is nauseating,

06:31I would rather be home watching Rachel, frankly.

06:37But I do, I do know something about real terror.

06:44The two times in my life when I was threatened and dealt with real physical violence,

06:51I learned something about life that I wouldn't have known otherwise.

06:56And I was lucky because my instincts served me well.

07:01In one instance, I played dead and waited until the blows stopped,

07:08watching like people say you do from about 50 feet above where I was beaten.

07:15And in the second instance, someone else was being abused.

07:24And I just went completely nuts and went after this man.

07:31Ask Cher. She was there.

07:34And the thug ran away. It was a miracle.

07:40But I was changed by these events on a cellular level.

07:46Because women do know something particular about coming to the danger place.

07:53We come to it disadvantaged through the many millennia preceding our present moment.

08:02And because of our vulnerability, we anticipate danger.

08:08We expect it. We're hyper alert to it.

08:11We have the 360 on the whole room.

08:15We have, they say, measurably, more acute hearing.

08:20We have a better sense of smell.

08:23We notice details, what people are wearing, their tics and their peculiarities.

08:28This comes in very handy in investigative journalism, but also in acting.

08:37I just finished a movie about journalism.

08:41It's about a time in which, in the late 60s and early 70s,

08:46when there were very few women in journalism at all.

08:49Meg Greenfield was the only woman in the editorial room at the Washington Post.

08:55It was a time not long after Nora Ephron, fresh out of Wellesley and running the paper there,

09:02interviewed at Newsweek and was told women are not reporters.

09:08You can be a researcher or an assistant, a secretary, copy editor maybe,

09:16but a reporter, reporters are male.

09:18That wasn't that long ago.

09:23So tonight I'd like to salute the special bravery with which, for instance,

09:30Rachel Nichols dug into Floyd Mayweather's repeated battery of women

09:36on the eve of his hot ticket fight when nobody wanted to hear about domestic violence.

09:48And I applaud just to name the few that I was reading today.

09:54Jody Cantor, Megan Tui, Cara Buckley, Milena Rizik, Maggie Haberman, Stephanie McCrummon, Beth Reinhardt, Alice Kreitz, Yamiche Alcindor, Masha Gessen, Julia Ioffi.

10:09I'm not working, so I'm reading a lot.

10:12Katie Benner, Emily Steele, Arwa Damon.

10:16There's so many, there's just so many great, great women right now.

10:28And I'd like to pay tribute to the ones who have paid the hardest price for their questions this year.

10:35Daphne Caruana Galizia, Kim Wall, Miroslava Breach, Tatjana Felgenhor.

10:44Despite what is a poisonous atmosphere for the press in this country,

10:51very few journalists are harmed here for doing their jobs, but it's a different story in Mexico.

10:59Five journalists have been murdered there just this year alone.

11:06Across the border from Texas in the state of Chihuahua,

11:10being an independent reporter can be a death sentence.

11:16Our next awardee, Patricia Mayorga, has paid a terrible price for her work.

11:23Just this year, her friend and colleague was murdered, and she herself was threatened.