by Joseph Liau

Created on: August 15, 2007

What I am about to say might sound stranger than fiction. But no, it's not necessarily the truth, unless to believe it to be so. Just like journalism, you will be presented with a series of facts that are formulated to entertain you.

Journalism is entertainment; it is an art, and it depends on its readers to keep it going. It takes a lot of skill, organization, and imagination to do journalism, and so does writing fiction. Journalism takes opinions and facts, and creates a story. Whether or not a story is true or not, it has a limited point of view, and a lot of imagination.

The opposite of fiction is not truth; it is non-fiction. The fact that there is no actual lone word assigned to the opposite of "fiction" makes you wonder how much writing is really not fiction.

When is journalism not fiction? Fiction can still be true, and truth can still be fictitious. It depends on what you truly believe. Opinion is never objective, and therefore, journalism may never be non-fiction.

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