'There's no better job' than journalism: Garcia Marquez

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MEXICO CITY (AFP) — Colombian writer and Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez hailed journalism as the best profession, in rare public comments in northern Mexico.

"There's no better job" than journalism, said the 81-year-old author of 'One Hundred Years of Solitude,' who started out as a journalist and often says he writes to avoid having to speak.

"We enjoy it when we find a jewel (of a story), but suffer like dogs when we see language used badly," said Garcia Marquez, who has lived in Mexico for several decades. The author spoke late Monday at a seminar in the northern city of Monterrey.

Garcia Marquez lamented the lack of time that modern journalists have to carry out their work, in a conversation with students and journalists.

"When someone is...