Between Sociology and Journalism

Abstract

‘You feel you can argue with literature, temper its vicarious experience with your own. Journalism intimidates because its currency appears to be irrefutable fact and the great myth about himself and his profession to which the journalist succumbs is that he is engaged mainly in the communication of objective fact. But if we view journalism as a chemical compound and break it down we would find the ingredient ‘fact’ existed in only small quantities and even then lumbered by human impurities’.