We shall be free
I’m probably a different case than most journalism students out there … I live and breathe my future. The most stressful thing you could possibly do to me was to actually
take the newspaper away from me. It’s my coping mechanism and makes me feel like I am successful. I may suck in other areas, but I know I have core skill sets necessary for a journalist.
One such skill is the knowledge of a free press. I’ve realized that more and more people are ignoring the reasoning behind a free press, looking to only see and hear what they choose. What most aren’t able to grasp, is that this country’s foundation is in the spirit of print and broadcast news media.
Journalists aren’t out to get anyone, we’re holding people accountable to the public promises that were made prior. We’re cutting down the direct propaganda and are setting out to allow people to form own decisions. At least, good journalism is doing this.
I’ve been reading the articles that keep popping up lately about people being dissappointed in the news media for one reason or another, but it’s all full of the same core reason — they don’t like what we’re writing.
I hope in the next few years I can see the print media get a little more involved in this fight, proving that we not only have the right to say what we feel necessary, but we’ll fight for our right to say it too.
