Journalist and Writer
Teacher: What if we leave this “measurement problem” for a while? I
am eager to hear what you think about one of Beta’s assumptions.
Gamma: Which one?
Teacher: That creativity is always the same. The only things that change
are the subject and the real meaning of the outcome.
Alpha: That is more than one question.
Teacher: True.
Alpha: Which one do you want to discuss then?
Teacher: I am curious about examples of outcome.
Beta: What do you mean?
Teacher: How it works in different areas of human activity.
Gamma: Like we discussed already, investigation, invention, and
photography?
Teacher: Yes, like those.
Delta: Do you have something specific in mind?
Teacher: I am not sure yet. Can’t we come up with some examples
together?
Beta: What are we looking for? I’m not sure either.
Teacher: All right, what about journalism?
Gamma: What about it?
Beta: Actually, the first thing that comes to mind is that a journalist
does not create facts, does he?
Kappa: So?
Alpha: It is like photography.
Delta: Quick shot, eh?
Kappa: Oh, God! Won’t you ever stop?
Alpha: That’s all right. I don’t care and I don’t mind.
Beta: You don’t mind what?
Alpha: The quick shot is still more important.
Delta: But seriously, Alpha, I fail to see it there. A journalist gets a
job to go somewhere and bring back a story. Say there was a car
accident. The editor of the paper sends some guy to cover the story.
Beta: Well, the question stands as it was. One journalist makes up a
story that nobody wants to read, and another one writes so well
that people rip the paper out of each others’ hands!
