literature and journalism go hand in hand.
Huaraz, Ancash, Peru .- The journalist and Nobel Prize for Literature (1989) wrote some recommendations for a good journalist:
1 - say what happens, not what you want it to happen or what you imagine happened.
2 - tell the truth, prepending all other considerations and always remember that lying is not news and, although this was taken, it is not profitable.
3 - be as objective as a plane mirror, the mere handling and even deliberately spectacular and monstrous image or idea expressed by the word that no longer fits literature and journalism ever.
4 - Callar before deformation, journalism is not the carnival, or the chamber of horrors, no museum of wax figures.
5 - be independent in their approach and not enter the political game immediately.
6 - Aspire to intellectual understanding and not the visceral feeling of the events and situations.
7 - Resist all sorts of pressure, moral, social, religious, political, familial, economic, labor, etc., including the company itself.
8 - Remember at all times that the journalist is not the center of nothing but the echo of everything.
9 - Flee own voice and write with maximum simplicity and possible correction and a total respect for the language.
10 - try not informers, nor to fuel gossip, no exercise, ever, the adulation, the informer is paid with contempt and with small change the slush fund, the gossip is just dropping the language and the flatterer is rewarded with a penny-pinching and dismissive pat on the back.
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