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Delta: I am not talking about “made up stories”!
Beta: Actually, I’m not either. But whatever the facts are, you have to arrange them in a story! Different journalists would do this differently, right? One story could be terribly boring, and another could be incredibly exciting, right? And the facts on the ground would still be the same, right?
Delta: Yeah.
Kappa: What about the “quick shot”?
Beta: What about it?
Kappa: I agree with Alpha that journalism does resemble photography. You have to reflect real things, but you can do it in different ways.
Gamma: Would that be only in those cases when a journalist does not have specific tasks and encounters something extraordinary?
Beta: But this changes nothing!
Alpha: What do you mean “nothing”?
Beta: I don’t see how this specific case would change what we have learned about creativity itself. If it is always the arrangement of known things into new forms, then circumstances mean nothing.
Kappa: But we are exploring how it works in different circumstances now. That, in fact, was the question . . .
Beta: Agreed. So, what about the journalist and his story?
Alpha: And his news?
Gamma: I see no difference between that and fiction writing.
Alpha: Fiction is the same as news?
Gamma: Wait, let me finish. I just want to compare the two.
Kappa: It is interesting.
Teacher: It is. I am dying to hear.
Gamma: All right. Obviously, creativity itself is the same in both instances. Both the fiction writer and the journalist have to arrange things in an attractive form . . .
Alpha: Except the writer makes facts up.
Delta: Not necessarily.
Gamma: Yes, you are right, both of you. . . . Let me finish. They both have to create stories to engage their readers and make them feel involved . . .
Kappa: That is right! That is exactly right!