Posted on 01/26/2005 1:28:28 PM PST by JCRoberts
Oh, that's real journalism. Not. Journalism is creative writing. How creative do you have to be to copy and paste?
Where did have the reporters gone? Gone to journalists every one.
Why are you interupting the mole rat thread with talk about michael jackson?
OMG! Was he one of those hillbillies that part of Deliverance was based on?
Why don't you ask him? Dude loves his banjo.
"Oh, that's real journalism. Not. Journalism is creative writing. How creative do you have to be to copy and paste?
Where did have the reporters gone? Gone to journalists every one."
jour·nal·ist (jûrn-lst) n.
1)One whose occupation is journalism.
2)One who keeps a journal.
jour·nal·ism (jûrn-lzm)n.
1)The collecting, writing, editing, and presenting of news or news articles in newspapers and magazines and in radio and television broadcasts.
2)Material written for publication in a newspaper or magazine or for broadcast.
3)The style of writing characteristic of material in newspapers and magazines, consisting of direct presentation of facts or occurrences with little attempt at analysis or interpretation.
4)Newspapers and magazines.
5)An academic course training students in journalism.
6)Written material of current interest or wide popular appeal.
Journalists are not creative writers. And since when is it not allowed for one to cut and paste an article on this site? That's mostly what's here. If you don't care, don't read it. I am not forcing you to do anything.
news (nz, nyz) pl.n. (used with a sing. verb)
1)Information about recent events or happenings, especially as reported by newspapers, periodicals, radio, or television. A presentation of such information, as in a newspaper or on a newscast.
2)New information of any kind: The requirement was news to him.
Newsworthy material: “a public figure on a scale unimaginable in America; whatever he did was news” (James Atlas).
lol
I'm Sneeden. Please don't drag me into this either.
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