"Emotions of the Sources"

I have written for a newspaper in the past, but the things I wrote were pretty much opinion pieces. (I don't think they trusted me with real news). I've always thought of journalism as boring, to be perfectly honest, though I guess it depends on who you're writing for. Writing for The New Yorker is probably a lot more fun than covering the homecoming game in some rural town that no one's ever heard of, but I haven't done either of those things so I can only assume.

But to be perfectly honest, reading the English Essay vs. News Story guide doesn't make journalism look as bad as I thought it would be. Just because you're not allowed to talk about yourself doesn't mean it has to read like some dry instruction manual. Anything worth putting in a newspaper would probably be in there because it had some kind of emotional impact on someone, right? So I guess our job would be to make all those readers out there feel it, too.

If that's possible.

Trackback