Author: Chessfun
Date: 16:59:08 06/06/01
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On June 06, 2001 at 19:17:39, Christophe Theron wrote: >On June 06, 2001 at 18:52:32, Fernando Villegas wrote: > >>Hi Tim: >>In fact I liked a lot that article. Well writen and witty. Yes, that is esential >>part of good journalism and it is not so easy as it can seem to those that look >>at it with some sense of derision and superiority. To be funny and entertainning >>requires talent, lot of it, although, of course, of a very different sort of >>that used for scientific or analitycal thinking. > > > >I thought journalism was also about giving some informations. > >I wonder what pertinent information the average reader will learn from this so >called article. > >If this is journalism, then I feel entitled to write articles about anything. >Biotechnology, nuclear particles science, politics, whatever... > >I guess my best articles are going to be those speaking about the subjects I >know absolutely nothing about. So the reader is not going to be bored with >technical explanations, and is going to feel at the same level as the writter. > Must agree. The article was pretty lame. It read to me like someone wrote it, who had never played a computer before, was very weak themselves, and simply wanted to make a nice little story. Sarah. > > >> And no, not being english my >>natural language -as it is obvious just reading anyone of my akward post- I >>would had been uncapable to write something of the sort. Respect the game, yes >>again; I think I am lot stronger than Mr Burgess and so I had been capable of >>more resistance, but, again yes, not too much more. An finally another no: being >>as I am, I do not imagine myself giving a more acurate description of nothing. >>As Burgess -as any writer- I tend a lot more to look for the global, the human >>side and the funny side of things, not very much to the technical aspect. May I >>say that I do not care much about that? >>I recognize this not with pride, but with humility. In my next life I want to be >>like Mr. Hyatt or Mr. Moreland. At least a change... >>Fernando
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