The Nigerian Immigrant

I wanted to study journalism because I thought a journalist was someone who uncovered truth, someone who inspired change in their community, someone trusted by their society. Unfortunately, the concentration of media ownership in Australia has introduced something I have termed the selective truth. A truth told only on the basis that the media organisation you work for has no political affiliation or alliance with the accused person (s). In a lecture by Understanding Journalism author Professor Sheridan Burns, she states that journalists were the only professionals who were not paid by the people that use their service. So, as a journalist I am the product I sell. If this is true, shouldn’t this inspire more integrity in such profession? Scholars have argued more positively over the years that one needn’t work for a media organisation to be called a journalist, some have argued it is what you say and how you say it that makes one a journalist. But I say, a journalist is a pers...