Warning: I am an apprehensive blogger. I
have commitment issues; I have never maintained a diary, my sea monkeys always
die and I will probably be wicked old spinster in fifty years. I apologise as
JOUR1111 has inflicted my insipid life into not only a blog, but the
twittersphere.
Lecture One.
I am a self confessed couch potato. I am lazy and
generally unmotivated. As the large the Schonnel Theatre chairs comfortably molded around me
in my first lecture I was pleasantly delighted by the course philosophy which
flashed on the screen before me, you are
the journalist. This made me feel satisfied with my subject selection: I had
not even endured a whole lecture yet and I felt qualified.
It was only as our lecturer, Dr. Bruce Redmen
commenced discussing our course outline that I became distracted upon what my
new qualification as a journalist truly meant. According to good old
Dictionary.com, a journalist is a person who writes about factual events for a
living. Today’s technologically savvy society creates ample opportunity for
open expression, regardless of qualification. Voices which previously have been
silenced in society are reaching an audience! Which leaves me with the
question, just because people in society have the ability to be a citizen journalist,
should they?
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