In other words, the concept of journalism embraces and gives a place to notions of commentary, judgment, and criticism.
Journalism is also public.
We distinguish in our minds between voices that are specialized or private, as in correspondence, and voices conceived for public consumption. Journalism, along with novels, short stories, speeches, and proclamations, is created for public consumption. If journalism is marked by its public voice, it is marked equally by its relation to the here and now. The world of journalism, by contrast, may be the real world as a whole comprehended under the category of the present. I'll come to that later.