Author: José Carlos
Date: 01:05:52 06/07/01
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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. 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 I'm sad to hear that journalism is such a thing. Then, every time I read a newspaper, I'm in fact reading a novel created by the journalist imagination. There's no way to be informed of the _real facts_. Really sad. José C.
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