Our “Journal” section is the place where our writers, staff or community, can relax a little and share some more general thoughts and opinions about life. A bit like a diary.
While their personal thoughts might seep into articles elsewhere in Hex, here is where their minds can wander a little more freely.
If you’d like to contribute, email your thoughts to info@hastings-examiner.uk with reference “Journal” in the subject line. Oh, and make sure you’ve read the Mission Statement/About Us page. Still need to keep that pledge.
Isn’t everything journalists do a journal?
I mean, it probably should be. Instead you’ll tend to hear that journalists are in the business of producing “newsworthy content”. Wikipedia has a fun definition though, saying that journalism is “the production and distribution of reports on the interaction of events, facts, ideas, and people that are the ‘news of the day’ and that inform society to at least some degree of accuracy.” Some degree of accuracy. Set the bar any higher and it might come off the ground.
No, journalism has evolved into the mass of useful and useless material that media sources throw out while claiming it’s informative. It’s a broad church in which good journalists are very obvious, even if they’re often invisible, and bad journalists are factory standard. Though that’s not fair, disillusioned journalists are factory standard. Actively bad ones are generally more obvious than the good ones, since they love forcing a sensation out of you.
That doesn’t cover much of anything, and strict good and bad are silly categories anyway.
