Journalistic discourse as a marker of relevance and high quality of information (based on the work of Roman Ivanychuk)

Abstract

The article demonstrates the journalistic intervention that has been ‘stitching’ not only texts of pre- and contemporary journalism, but also fiction and nonfiction since ancient times. Its features are identified and they include factuality, devaluation of imagery, criticality, relevance, efficiency, branding, availability of expertise, ideology, oratory, collection of external information through observation, interviews, study of documents and sources, etc. It has been found that if at least one of the features is present, the artistic work loses its organic character and is transformed into a journalistic phenomenon. For the spheres of artistic creativity, journalism is not desirable (at least at the level of trends and styles of the romantic rather than realistic direction), on the contrary, it is eloquent and determining for mass communication. In all cases, journalistic discourse inevitably falls under censorship. It is emphasised that at first glance, it seems that cross-cutting journalism is a marker of the information space of non-democratic systems, for example, socialist ones. However, it is present in all ideological situations (in the contexts of wars, revolutions, protests, Maidans, etc. - often of a national liberation nature).