PressEthic

I was reading The Village Voice and bumped into this article about young american people living abroad. "Get out of town" it was called. And I realized that I read it through without letting myself get distracted at any point by other stories, adds etc. Something just made me want to read it through.

The subject I found interesting. Americans living abroad, advantages, disadvantages. One compared the living situation he had in Prague with the one he had in America. Cheaper and more room. Everybody has an opinion about prices and apartments in New York, as do I, so I read on.

But it wasn't just the factor of identification that played a role. The journalist, Anya Kamenetz, had interviewed three people living abroad, and in between their comments she weaved in pieces of information, like the fact that "The State Department estimates 3 million Americans are living abroad, a number that has doubled in the past 30 years. Some of them are chasing success." (1st september 2005).

This combination of information and interviews was elegantly put. Which leads me back to my belief, that even though the subject is interesting, it also has to be told in an interesting way. In order to do that, I think that research is a key element. The more you know, the more you have to bounce off on.