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“Journalism is organized gossip.”
Edward Eggleston

Gossip is a powerful tool in journalism. But more so, information that people don’t know is a powerful tool. It is human nature to want to know what others know. So, if you think about it logically, being a journalist therefore gives you alot of power, it makes you an important person. I want to be an important person. I want to have power. I can tell you now that I’m not going to get that through Bob Mugabe death tactics. So thats why i’m a Rhodes first year journalism student. My name is Andrew Brukman. I’m from Cape Town but went to school in Grahamstown.Our blog is about sharing experiences through writing – or blogging to be more specific. People experience different events and places in different ways because so many different factors, race, sex or ways of viewing life. So why not blog about these different perspectives of events. We are gong to be challenging eachother to do things which we wouldn’t normally do. Something out of our comfort zone. We believe that by doing this it opens up your perspective of life and makes you consciously think of what you are experiencing. Something which is different gives you the ability to compare what is normal to you. How are we going to do this? We have in our group two black girls and two white guys. What better way than to have a set of people so opposite in order to experience different events or places. The great thing about this is that these challenged will no doubt spark debates and issues will be raised which we will be able to write about. This is going to be fun

“Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited, and the wealth and confusion man has created. It is a major force in explaining man to man.”
Edward Steichen