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Friday, 12 May 2006
News of the world.
The fascination with news and the reporting of news continues. Alongside, a sense of how I can conjoin my studies with a fictional discipline. The narrative contained within newstype holds a continuous attraction, and yet I cannot see journalism as a vocation. Things are happening, movements of peoples and movements of ideas are being recorded in the innocent serif and institution of daily journals.
The refugees of Chagos end exile from white beached homelands; Andalusian government pays for the demolition for of half-finished tourist monoliths on the graveyard of the costas; the systematic exposure of 4,500 former KGB agents in Latvia threatens to tear at heart of Baltics; alarming Bulgarian stability and market economy questioned in light of ascension to EU; Sri Lankan militants kill seventy as country moves towards fringes of war; anniversary of Chinese cultural revolution and its deep significances; US infringement of privacy issues at stake as telephone data patterns are scrutinised in silence; Escalation in popularity of Russian filmic works banned under previous Soviet regimes, gives rise to remakes and republished samizdats.
The poetry of world news is not to baulked at. Any fool can lay metaphor upon fact, but what we investigate here is not how rhythmical and dramatised reportage may be, but an examination of its techniques and inferences, its relevances and insight. There are narratives buried within, and the media exists as both a representation and a catalyst. These things do not exist for us without the word of another.
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