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Well, my reaction to this one is suspicion that it sounds a little too perfect and either the farmer is idealizing his life or the journalist has taken editoria
by greshario 5y ago
Well, my reaction to this one is suspicion that it sounds a little too perfect and either the farmer is idealizing his life or the journalist has taken editorial liberties.. so, maybe?
- BuyMyBitcoins 5y agoJournalists love to craft articles around some narrative theme. Edit: I’m talking about consistency within the article and a “focus on the subject” stance. If the author wants to present the farmers happiness, that’s what they’re going to frame the whole piece on.
- ricktdotorg 5y agomini quote from a good article about the Guardian's Experience column works: > [Our writers] tend to interview the subject and then work with them to tell their story in their own words. via https://www.theguardian.com/membership/2021/feb/15/experience-guardian-real-life-stories-inside https://www.theguardian.com/membership/2021/feb/15/experienc...
- greshario 5y ago> work with them to tell their story Hmmm... Suspicioun that this is heavily editorialized intensifies.
- fencepost 5y agosuspicion of editorializing Not editorialized, but likely transcribed from one or more interviews and the interviewee and interviewer edit lightly. There are people who couldn't write something like that given weeks but get them to start talking and they do a marvelous job. Drawing that out of people is one of the things that marks good interviewers.
- greshario 5y agoI do mean editorialized: > To present an opinion in the guise of an objective report. As in, I'm suspicious that the words the farmer spoke were heavily edited by the journalist before being published to better fit the narrative.
- nkozyra 5y agoI don't know that a journalist was involved in this. An editor may have been but this just appears to be a letter-to-the-editor or commentary submission