“If I’d written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people – including me – would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.” […]
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Tags: fear and loathing, hunter s. thompson, jeremy eley, Journalism, magazine, Storytelling, the rolling stone
Tags: fear and loathing, hunter s. thompson, jeremy eley, Journalism, magazine, Storytelling, the rolling stone
Words were first spoken, and stories of “real truth” with them
Posted by: eleyism922 | September 11, 2012 | No Comment |It has been argued in several circles of journalism that journalists are storytellers. The evidence that propels journalists as storytellers comes to us from as far ago as the fifth century B.C. It was in that time that rhetoric was born, where the well respected citizens were relied on to tell the truth of their […]