Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.
A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction.
All good novelists have bad memories. What you remember comes out as journalism; what you forget goes into the compost of the imagination.
My fellow journalists called themselves correspondents; I preferred the title of reporter. I wrote what I saw. I took no action -- even an opinion is a kind of action.
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