Journalism: Per se, journalism is a
discipline which feeds on its brief and evanescent life time. The practice of
journalism is based on the need-to-know that the audience has and thus, as the
need to know fades, so does the importance of the reported event. Journalism is
the repetitive and ephemeral investigation for things people are hungry for.
Even if the text itself might be quite good, it stops being useful of
meaningful, or at the very least looses part of its “soul” just by the fact
that the reported news are, as times goes by, old news, and news who get old
are no longer relevant news.
Literature: Has an inherent sense of
eternity and timelessness. The value of the words, if there’s any to them in
first place of course, is within themselves; all by themselves the words in
Literature should convey a message and shouldn’t need any outer factor, other than
a reader, to have a meaning. It is art. It conveys a part of the author as well
as absorbs part of the reader. It is mutual foreplay, giving and taking in an
endless cycle of phrases, words and ideas.
