{"id":599,"date":"2006-12-26T16:40:32","date_gmt":"2006-12-26T14:40:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.1.2\/en\/?p=599"},"modified":"2006-12-26T16:40:32","modified_gmt":"2006-12-26T14:40:32","slug":"lucas-morando-and-the-opinionated-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=599","title":{"rendered":"Lucas Morando And The Opinionated Interview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few days ago I was interviewed by Lucas Morando, of Perfil, the second largest Sunday Paper in Argentina.  Yesterday the interview came out in print.  I can\u00b4t link to it cause it\u00b4s not on line.Unfortunately, Lucas Morando is one of those poor journalists who uses interviews to justify his opinion. In this case that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.Educ.ar\">Educ.ar<\/a>, a program started by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.varsavsky-foundation.org\">my foundation<\/a> in 2000, is a failure.  <\/p>\n<p>Lucas Morando\u00b4s technique is simple.  Conduct a one hour interview and then use only a few random phrases from the whole interivew to justify your (incorrect) view.  Of course, anything in life can be seen as a success or a failure, but Lucas Morando\u00b4s view is just not sustainable.  <\/p>\n<p>What was clearly a donation of mine, in which I donated $11.2 million dollars to the Argentine Education Ministry to create the education portal and raised around $100 million more from many sources to connect Argentine schools to the interne,t Lucas calls a loss and compares it to a true business loss I had when I lent $6 million to a defunkt Argentine airline called Southern Winds and lost half of that money. <\/p>\n<p>Well Lucas, donations are not losses.  Donations are actually made knowing that you will &#8220;lose&#8221; the funds, but personally I think that Educ.ar is the best investment I could have ever done for the future of my country, Argentina.  This year alone millions of student used Educ.ar, 11,000 teachers were trained, half a million educational CDs were destributed to teachers around the country and 65,000 computers were installed.  Hardly a loss&#8230;.<\/p>\n<div id=\"mainphotoarea\"><\/div><div class=\"theme-buttons\"><div class=\"fb-like\" data-href=\"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=599\" data-send=\"false\" data-layout=\"box_count\" data-width=\"71\" data-show-faces=\"false\" data-font=\"arial\" data-locale=\"en_US\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few days ago I was interviewed by Lucas Morando, of Perfil, the second largest Sunday Paper in Argentina. Yesterday the interview came out in print. I can\u00b4t link to it cause it\u00b4s not on line.Unfortunately, Lucas Morando is one of those poor journalists who uses interviews to justify his opinion. In this case that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}