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 Journalist and Writer Teacher: What if we leave this “measurement problem” for a while? I am eager to hear what you think about one of Beta’s assumptions.

Gamma: Which one?

Teacher: That creativity is always the same. The only things that change are the subject and the real meaning of the outcome.

Alpha: That is more than one question.

Teacher: True.

Alpha: Which one do you want to discuss then?

Teacher: I am curious about examples of outcome.

Beta: What do you mean?

Teacher: How it works in different areas of human activity.

Gamma: Like we discussed already, investigation, invention, and photography?

Teacher: Yes, like those.

Delta: Do you have something specific in mind?

Teacher: I am not sure yet. Can’t we come up with some examples together?

Beta: What are we looking for? I’m not sure either.

Teacher: All right, what about journalism?

Gamma: What about it?

Beta: Actually, the first thing that comes to mind is that a journalist does not create facts, does he?

Kappa: So?

Alpha: It is like photography.

Delta: Quick shot, eh?

Kappa: Oh, God! Won’t you ever stop?

Alpha: That’s all right. I don’t care and I don’t mind.

Beta: You don’t mind what?

Alpha: The quick shot is still more important.

Delta: But seriously, Alpha, I fail to see it there. A journalist gets a job to go somewhere and bring back a story. Say there was a car accident. The editor of the paper sends some guy to cover the story.

Beta: Well, the question stands as it was. One journalist makes up a story that nobody wants to read, and another one writes so well that people rip the paper out of each others’ hands!