Excellent Journalism

I just wanted to share this extremely well-written news article I read during my down-time at work: Floods in Brazil

The writer in me is never asleep even though I now have a job that doesn't require any writing at all (unless you count emails that are usually two sentences or less). At least my job does use my four semesters of German from college, if absolutely nothing else. So far.

When I wrote for the Scroll at BYU-Idaho, I was really frustrated with the formality of the writing, because I wanted to write creatively. Of course in journalism there are rules about accuracy, so my usual descriptive language was often judged as subjective and therefore unfit to print. This is one of the biggest reasons why I only stayed on staff for one semester. I had about three articles that I thoroughly enjoyed writing, which was too small of a percentage.

The above article, however, is a masterpiece in my opinion. It is vivid, rugged, wrenching, and graceful, just like the country of its subject. This is brilliant journalism.