Modern Journalism Essay

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REAL LIFE WRITINGS IN AMERICAN LITERARY JOURNALISM: A NARRATOLOGICAL STUDY

Foreword

In the modern era, science and technology have pierced through every corner of human life, leaving man with a feeling of nothingness without it. It is sad to know that man has thought himself to be the unconquerable, but the bitter reality is that the unconquerable has become destructive. Moreover, it is a fact that all is not well with the age of globalization and technology. Modern man is not having enough clarity between what is real and what is its construction, the right and wrong, the fact and fiction, and the clear and the ambiguous. This is the dilemma of every individual in the present culture and society.
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Their aim is to work in the direction of accuracy, fairness, truth, free speech, objectivity, skepticism, originality, and creativity. They also care for the knowledge of current events, readerships and public policies, respect for deadlines and textual discipline and clarity. They fulfill the responsibility resting on them in a certain way. But ‘the role and status of journalism, along with that of the mass media, has undergone profound changes over the last two decades with the advent of digital technology and publication of news on the Internet’ …show more content…

The novelist’s dissatisfaction with realism was also another reason which led to experiments with language and with narrative form. However, the form and style of the news story was transformed by the use of fictional devices borrowed from stories and novels because of the ever-increasing “knowledge explosion” in the society which demanded a news coverage with greater depth and background, with psychological insights into the major figures behind the news, and with interpretation and analysis, placing the news in a broader context. All this required greater freedom for writers in terms of style and

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