Thursday, January 11, 2007

Lecture: student query

A student has sent a question about the relationship given in lecture between "....literature vs journalism vs autobiography." Anyone care to clarify this formulation? Use the comments function, below.
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4 comments:

Dr. Stephen Ogden said...

Dear "Instanity": good analysis! The question, then, is how is "In Vancouver" different from journalism.

January 13, 2007 at 4:54 PM
SFU said...

in my humble opinion...

journalism is different from "In Vancouver" because of the narration per-se. journalism narrates in such a tone whereas it is always backed-up by facts/factoids, while the story in itself fits the branch of feauture writing, a narration composed of nostalgic desriptance of any kind with the use of rich vocabulary and thorough display of events. i think what insanity is trying to depict is that journalism is news writing, which is partially right, for it can also mean other aspects such as editorial writing to sports writing. in conslusion, i could somehow list the same number of simmilarities to the number of differences in journalism and "In Vancouver", for both are seperated in such a way that they are also combined. ironic.

January 14, 2007 at 1:09 PM
Anonymous said...

I see journalism as writing that reports on news. The writing can be biased but the substance should be based on fact. "In Vancouver" may contain a selection of stories based on fact but the author can embellish as he/she so wishes. The truth does not have to interfer with a good story.

February 3, 2007 at 4:19 PM
Dr. Stephen Ogden said...

Dear "Insanity":

Hmm....what then do you do with CBC News' Dan Rather and his "Fake but Accurate" news story?

http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F50A10FF35540C768DDDA00894DC404482

February 3, 2007 at 11:26 PM

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