http://jewishcheerleaders.com/6_2_02.html Porn-maker Sam Stern's journal (the contents page) is very good, although it does take a few readings to figure out the right way to approach his writing; a few readings to “get it.” Sometimes he describes shoots he's done, sometimes he talks about his relationship with the porn industry, and sometimes he talks about, well, other stuff.
This paragraph, on why he hates journalism, resonates:
I've thought before that the very essence of reporting, of critiquing and evaluating, even of storytelling, is one of reductionism, oversimplification. I hate most journalism for this reason. Fiction is preferable to me because I never have to question the veracity of the reportage—it's filtered through the narrator, or novelist—it's made up. It's when it comes to telling about life that I start to distrust, not only the actual story that I'm hearing or reading—but the ability of speech and words in general to accurately describe an event or an occurence. People are liars, and even when they're not, they leave a lot out.
(I don't hate journalism, but I do have the suspicion that almost any proposition can be sensibly argued for.) 13:13
