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Exercise 3. Answer the following questions about the text:

1. What quality is the most important in the make-up of a future journalist?
2. What kind of people should a journalist be interested in?
3. What other qualities are essential for a future journalist?
4. Why is it necessary for a future journalist to have sympathy for other people?
5. Why aren't people usually fond of a person who is a show-off and thinks that he knows everything?
6. Why does the author think that a journalist needs humility?
7. How should a journalist write?
8. Is it good if a journalist uses very long sentences? Why?
9. Is it better for a future journalist to be good at several subjects than to be brilliant at just one? Why?
10. What kind of life does a journalist usually lead?
11. What kind of conclusion does the author come to?
12. Do you agree with the author's conclusion? Give your reasons.

"What makes a good journalist?

Many things. Even journalists will disagree on the order of importance of the qualities that go to make a good journalist. But they are all agreed that paramount in the make-up of a journalist is a deep and genuine interest in people - good people, bad people (who often make good news!), famous people, humble people, rich people, poor people, old people, young people, Black people, White people - people of every type - everywhere.

A person who has not this interest in other people will never make a good journalist. So if you are not very interested in other people and think that most people are a bit of a nuisance and you prefer not to have anything more to do with them than is necessary, journalism is not for you.

Hand in hand with this interest in people, should go the qualities of sympathy (so that you can see the other side of an issue even if you disagree with the person who holds it), open-mindedness (so that you do not make a hasty ill-informed judgement) and an inquiring mind (so that you can really get to the bottom of the thing you are asking about). Last, but certainly not least, the journalist needs to have humility. That does not mean that he goes around like a Sunday School teacher! But it does mean that the man who thinks he is a pretty clever chap and does not mind the world knowing about it, will never make a good journalist. The journalist - certainly the reporter - spends most of his day talking or listening to other people, and none of us is very fond of the man who is a show-off, who thinks he knows it all.

So these are the basic qualities for a journalist, but the required qualifications are very different things.

Let us look at the qualifications a journalist needs. Obviously he must be well enough educated to be able to write fairly clearly in whatever language it is he hopes to work in. The best journalists write simple, plain, direct English, generally preferring short words to long ones.

What about the rest of the educational qualifications for a journalist? Often it is the pupil who was fairly good at five or six subjects, and not brilliant at just one, who makes the best journalist. These sort of people seem rather better balanced, as it were, for the sort of life a journalist leads - often with a nose in half a dozen things in one day - than the specialist, who was so interested in, say, biology, that he never took much interest in history, geography, literature and other subjects.

But of course, nobody can say exactly what the best qualifications for a career in journalism are. They will vary enormously, according to the individual. There are plenty of highly successful journalists who were generally at the bottom of the class when they were at school, while many a man with a university degree has failed to make any mark in journalism.