Orwell and the challenge of subjective journalism
Orwell and the challenge of subjective journalism

Summary/Abstract: Orwell was one of the few British writers of his time not afraid to adopt a strong political stance, both in his fictional and his non-fictional work, and who saw it as the duty of the writer, forced on him by historical circumstance, to take sides against what he perceives as injustice and the perversion of truth. His views on Ghandi, as on other personalities and issues of the day, are therefore, and above all, a rare example of a balanced – personal, yet detached – style of reporting that gives Gandhi’s portrait the consistency of a truthful account rarely to be seen in the contemporary press.

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