Writer Bashkim Shehu in UET, criticizing journalists: You are turning history into a sensation!

The well-known writer Bashkim Shehu was a guest of the European University of Tirana, where he gave a cycle of open lectures for five weeks. At the end of this cycle, he gave an interview to lecturer Irena Myzeqari. Among other things, the writer had strong reservations about the way journalists are handling the story.

"Look, the testimony always has the same subjectivity, there are different points of view, but it was written for that period, there are documents, the problem is how willing people are and how much interest there is in reading them today. I believe there is material, those who lived at that time, have spoken. Then these must be faced and looked at carefully. Today I see either a lack of interest or a transformation of this into a sensation which is the opposite of history... We are turning it into a journalistic sensation by publishing old things as news of the day and repeating them again as news of the day, sensations of the day. History has one thing, it has a continuity, while the newspaper is the opposite, the newspaper takes pieces, it is fragmentary, every day it gives a news, as if you take things out of context. When we see the actuality that the newspapers give, there is context, while from the past we get pieces, it is completely opposite to the method of history... Because of what happened, this also happens. Things have been messed up badly and they are passed on from one generation to another just as badly," he said. /map/