Forging unity : the story of the North-West University's first years
Abstract
News is the first rough draft of history. This saying is
attributed to Alan Barth, who was an editorial writer
at The Washington Post for three decades until he
retired in 1972. Perhaps the words have become trite,
even abused, as reporters invoke them as justification
for incompleteness, inaccuracies or one-sidedness. But
Barth probably wanted to capture another dimension of
the journalistic endeavour: the difficulties, frustrations and
dangers one has to face in a genuine attempt to get to
the heart of a story. The point is this: as one sets off to
tell a story yet untold, all the effort in the world can yield
nothing but a first draft of history. This book should be
viewed as the first rough draft of a journalistic history of
the North-West University (NWU).
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