Monday, August 21, 2006

When Journalism Fails ...

You must be the worst journalist in the country. You're incapable of being objective, you put yourself at the centre of everything. I suspect that you lie a lot, and when there is no news, you invent it. Wouldn't it be better to turn to writing novels? In literature, these defects are virtues.
Pablo Neruda advising Isabel Allende

3 comments:

Poppadumdum said...

Great advice! Don't know about her writing about Zorro though...

Anonymous said...

Actually I laughed at reading this. I had a vision of all our local reporters turning to fiction, something they are naturally good at.

Excuse me while I duck the missiles coming my way ...

Matthew da Silva said...

...so does civil society.

Thank god for democracies and their excellent journalists. Keeping the bastards honest...