Journalism can go right up to the door of the room in which the decisions are made. A novel can go inside the room - and inside the character's heads.
In journalism I can only tell what happened. In fiction, I can show it.
One of the things that always drives any practitioner of journalism crazy is you'll run it people who say why doesn't the media cover this or that? Well of course the media covered it. Why didn't you read about it? And, you know, it's, you know, there you are, it's not the journalist's job to knock down your door, you know, punch the URL into your computer and force you to stop watching the Kardashians and to read, you know, a report on integrity in government instead, it's your job.
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