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Journalism versus Literature?
(From Philippine Daily Inquirer)
Byline: Nick Joaquin
The following speech was delivered in August 1996 by Joaquin, then the Ramon Magsaysay Awardee for Journalism, Literature and Creative Communication Arts.-ED.
(Last of two parts)
IT DOESN'T take a magus to discern that literature is taking a back seat to journalism.
Poetry, drama, fiction-all these that we mean when we say literature-are obviously undergoing a change in life, a rite of passage. I don't mean they are on the decline. What I feel is that they are being reviewed, reassessed, reclassified.
And I fear that literature has been taken down a few ranks and ...
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