By Montague Brendan
Journalist Brendan Montague grew to become his again on Fleet highway to commit his existence to a unmarried ardour: reporting. One second he was once working up expenditures on the Sunday instances, the day-by-day Mail and the Sunday replicate. the subsequent, Lehman Brothers collapsed. It was once time to solid an investigative highlight on bankers, polluters, fingers brands. Brendan manage the unconventional information web publication, The Sauce. however the political panorama remained as nonetheless as a dew pond. have been his lofty beliefs of reporting the cave in of capitalism and the sunrise of a brand new international delusional? What could this muckraker locate within the grubby truth round him? The Sauce exposes Russian nuclear waste barons, breaks the Vestas profession tale and shreds Tara Palmer-Tomkinson's first novel. The weblog takes on excessive court docket judges, the inside track of the realm, gangsters, neo-Nazis or even graffiti artist Banksy.
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La oposición literaria, no obstante, era más compleja. Mirando ahora hacia atrás, está claro que lo que sucedió fue lo siguiente: la repentina aparición de este nuevo estilo de periodismo, sin raíces ni tradiciones, había provocado un pánico en el escalafón de la comunidad literaria. Durante todo el siglo veinte los literatos se habían habituado a un escalafón de estructura muy estable y aparentemente eterna. Era algo así como una estructura de clase según el modelo del siglo dieciocho, en la cual uno podía competir únicamente con gente de su misma categoría.
Apéndice 2. ) Ese concepto peculiar conocido como «el sagrado ministerio del novelista» tuvo su origen en Europa a partir de 1870 y no se asentó en el mundo literario norteamericano hasta después de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Pero no tardó en recuperar el tiempo perdido. ¿Qué tipo de novela debe escribir un ministro sagrado? En 1948, Lionel Trilling apuntó la teoría de que la novela de realismo social (que había florecido en Norteamérica a lo largo de los años treinta) estaba acabada porque el tren de carga de la historia la había pasado de largo.
Los periodistas habían empleado con frecuencia el punto de vista en primera persona —«Yo estaba allí»— igual que habían hecho autobiógrafos, memorialistas y novelistas. (Apéndice 3. ) Esto significa una grave limitación para el periodista, sin embargo, ya que sólo puede meter al lector en la piel de un único personaje —él mismo— un punto de vista que a menudo se revela ajeno a la narración e irritante para el lector. Según esto, ¿cómo puede un periodista, que escribe no-ficción, penetrar con exactitud en los pensamientos de otra persona?