J Station

This is again a very basic and extremely traditional lesson in Journalism.

These letters represent who, what, when. where, why and how.

If you cannot get these basics right in your report or story, you may need to go back to little nephew.

Yes, reporting begins at home like charity!

If you have a little nephew who keeps nagging you for a bed time story and asks you questions at the nd of each sentence, you are lucky you had the right training.

If you start your career in your 30s or 40s, your own kid can come to your rescue.I still remember the day I sang the nursery rhyme ‘Hey diddle diddle. . .’ some sixteen years ago!

• The first question I had to face was – What is a diddle?
• The next was – Where was the cow? On earth or on sky?
• And then – How could it jump over the moon?
• Was that a night?
• Why did the dish run away with the spoon?

Well, if you can write a complete story on this scene, it means you have started off very well.

For curious readers, this rhyme has a satirical theory of Elizabethan scandal and another of astronomy lesson. I still stick to the version of Astronomy lesson, as I have read that all the constellations mentioned in this rhyme as animals are visible during the spring time, which is time for song and dance.

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