When I think of a journalism I firstly think of complex expression of my own ideas, thoughts, theories or interpreting someone else’s opinion which, I think, will be interesting for people to know about. Simply it is some kind of a conversation between people of diferent social status, hobbies, interest groups and many other categories of people. Journalism is like a hook that catches only big valuable fish out of deep dark and not fully discovered sea of information.
We may assume that journalism is really an art. It’s like a passion that require more than using simple language rules and write what you think. Every artist always try to be original and express himself through his works. These activities can be compared with lottery. The chances are 50/50 that your works will be recognized by everybody. If so the work of an artist become a masterpiece. The same is with journalism. It is really hard to write something that matters. Every journalist know that.
Another caracteristic of a journalism is power. Power or authority can be understood as ability of a person to influence masses and make them live, do whatever this person want them to do. Journalism gives this opportunity to anybody. But again in order to influence as much people as possible every journalist should find his own style or technique on how to do that. Everything they write should matters and firstly their information should be highly related to people’s feelings, values and beliefes. Here a journalism should be careful. Playing with these feeling is a dangerous thing, but anyway there will be always people who are pro or against journalist’s writing.
Summarizing everything I previously said a journalism can be caracterized as an art, power and one-way or two way communication. These caracteristics always interact with each other. And how to find the balance between them is another question!
