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I love stories—reading them, telling them, even writing
them. I’m studying journalism at BYU and I love learning people’s stories. Last
year I interned with BYU Magazine and
I got to tell the stories of successful alumni, incredible BYU athletes, and +2,000
people who work behind the scenes at football games.
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Greek stories, though told thousands of years ago, are still
widely read and repeated today. Greek myths were made up and told to explain
the world and teach lessons, as Brooke N explained. And that worked for them.
That doesn’t quite work for journalists today. We can’t
mythologize our stories. But true stories can help us understand the world and
teach lessons too.
It would be interesting to study what types of myth-like pieces have been published today. While true stories are extremely beneficial, I would imagine that we could still learn from the "made up" ones today.
ReplyDeleteIt would be interesting to study what types of myth-like pieces have been published today. While true stories are extremely beneficial, I would imagine that we could still learn from the "made up" ones today.
ReplyDeleteThat's an excellent point, and a cool connection that any kind of story, true or not, helps us to understand some aspect of the world.
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