In chapter one of the Thomas novel, a lot of stuff that she writes completely relates back to what we've been talking about in class. First of all, Thomas talks a lot about reporters who lied and fabricated stories and so on. In class, we've been talking about how a journalists first obligation is to the truth. It's true that journalism has changed for the worst like Thomas said. More reporters have lied, made up stories, made up people, made up qoutes, etc. than ever before.
Also in class, we talked about the reporters keeping their independence from the ones they report on. In the Thomas novel, she also talks about instances where reporters were like team members with people of authority, like policemen, while writing a story when they should've kept their independence from them. She also talks about reporters being paid by people in the government to report or not report on certain things. That is definetely not keeping independence.
It's really sad that journalism has become this way. When I become a journalist, I want people to be able to look up to me and respect me because they know that I'm telling the truth and will always report only the truth.
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That is what I'm talking about Joanna. I like your confidence, because it really isn't about "if" we become journalists as much as it has to do with "when" we become journalists. The most optomistic of all of us would say that we already are journalists!
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