Being a Journalist AND remaining truthful AND remaining unbiased AND being interesting

 HOW WELL DO MODERN JOURNALISTS TELL THE TRUTH?
Easily, it's pellucid to claim that people have opinions. As unbiased as a human being would like to be, society has been dictating views upon us from the moment we were born. As AMERICANS, we believe that some things are absolute truths just because of our culture(and likewise someone in any other culture believes the same thing).

These ideas of life have been pounded into us. Any person writing a news article in modern society in the USA would assume that everyone(or most people) agrees with concepts such as democracy, the ability to practice various religions or no religion at all, the wrongness of slavery as well as the deprivation of female rights, and...the freedom of the press.

 Ironically, the press is NOT supposed to hold opinions. Which would make sense because people deserve the opportunity to come to terms with their own beliefs. Which would make sense because biased opinions could drive thousands(or more) to come to improper conclusions(or very biased conclusions) about something because of an article.

Which would make sense if the press were computers, imputing statistics of absolute knowledge and dealing with no feelings of emotions. Which they are not.


The press will make mistakes. No matter how hard they try, they will not be able to fit every single person's point of view into an article, they may mess up on some fact or statistic(even after being fact checked), they may produce something even accidentally that isn't perfectly truthful.

Sadly, some journalists of "modern" times don't quite implement the tactics of honesty. They care about how INTERESTING something is. Obviously, no one wants boring articles that don't sell, don't get read, and honestly don't get the point across. Soooo, some people write to sell, be read, and get a point across. This is sad if it leads to the making up of facts, ya know.

Anyways, I think People. Should. Be. Allowed. To. Have. Opinions. Even the press. Truthfully, I'd be okay if there was a newspaper called The Opinion Editorial, as long as people understood that that was what it was. However, since it was decided that newspaper writers should remain unbiased...then,

WHAT CAN WE DO? HOW CAN WE IMPROVE?

We can be good and honest and wholesome people. We can do our best to put quality out there and if we fail to sell, then we can just keep keep on keeping on.

If we, as journalist, have ethics then eventually the public will see us as ethical people. And if they don't, it doesn't really matter.

Love.

My Cuz made this video about her little brother.
L.O.V.E is it a mystery?

As A Potential Future Journalist.

What is Journalism?

As a potential future journalist, it makes an immense amount of sense that this would be a question lurking somewhere in the back of my mind, or possibly in the front, or possibly consuming the entirety of my brain.


Or maybe not. 

Really though, journalism's something you can spend a plethora of time considering. In truth, people for ages have been relying on the written word to get them places--implemented to beat the unbeatable country in a war of ridiculous odds, declared to assure humanity of better times to come midst major economic downturns,  recorded to plates of gold with the promise that people thousands of years in the future would need its echoing truths.

You get the picture. 

Soooo...what is journalism? If you were to look at this with a narrow mind, you might just say that journalism is recorded news...and a profession. WELL DUH. However, if you were to look at this with a less narrow scope, you would come to realize that journalism encompasses a broad amount of ideas. Sometimes, journalism isn't very much like journalism. Yes, you wouldn't think that hearing about how multiple so-and-sos were seen walking with their mini chihuahuas down the street would be very newsworthy, but sadly it can seen that way. Also, you would think that hearing about how thousands of people died in some country because of such-and-such would be utterly newsworthy, but sadly some people are more aware of the chihuahuas than the needs of their fellow mankind.

Basically, to me, journalism is speech. Words. Declarations. News Stations. Blogs. Politics. Sports. World issues. Conversations. Scriptures. History. Diaries. Yes...and even FACEBOOK.

Journalism should capture truth for those in the present,should  preserve memories of those in the past, and should record events for those in the future. It doesn't always do this, but it should. Really....journalism is a lot of things. And.....

WHO ARE JOURNALISTS? 

Journalists are people who record the news. I'm a journalist. YOU are a journalist. Most people that spread the word are journalists in some way or another. It's just that some journalists write because they want to to be heard and they care and some journalists write because they get paid....a measly amount.

 And some journalists write because they care and they get paid a measly amount.

P.S. Really, I think the news about the Daily Universe is sad, but I wasn't really reading it...And sometimes, you gotta do what you gotta do.