"To have been there at the start of what eventually became AMPLE, the advertising agency, is to be reminded of the slipperiness of the standing of those who practise, and who identify by the profession of, journalism. Brief words by Alfred Aguiton, surviving half of AMPLE's founding team, in rare print exposure last week, exemplified a facility for witty expression that could credibly be claimed as "journalistic".
Mr Aguiton's cameo on earlier references to him by Clarence Rambharat deftly aimed to cut in half the credentials of the Express columnist self-identified as "university lecturer and lawyer." The columnist, Mr Aguiton suggested, could amount to only half of each: "I kindly believe that from those to whom not much is given, not much is expected." Lest his words could be taken outside the spirit of free-range picong from a man who has what's called a way with words, he ended his letter to the editor: "As a co-Trinidadian, what I am indeed conscripted to do is to enjoy good humour."
Mr Aguiton inhabits language from the inside. To him the credentials of journalism attach as the defining character of a way with words, if not equally a way of life, and vocation."
Mr Aguiton's cameo on earlier references to him by Clarence Rambharat deftly aimed to cut in half the credentials of the Express columnist self-identified as "university lecturer and lawyer." The columnist, Mr Aguiton suggested, could amount to only half of each: "I kindly believe that from those to whom not much is given, not much is expected." Lest his words could be taken outside the spirit of free-range picong from a man who has what's called a way with words, he ended his letter to the editor: "As a co-Trinidadian, what I am indeed conscripted to do is to enjoy good humour."
Mr Aguiton inhabits language from the inside. To him the credentials of journalism attach as the defining character of a way with words, if not equally a way of life, and vocation."
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