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 person who objectively views the world and says the truth they see in it. Someone who does not allow the sentimental opinions of others cloud their judgement. A journalist is radical, they are catalysts of change. They are assertive and they are honest and you may say this is a rather ignorant or romanticized view of the world but if you do not exhibit these qualities you are not a journalist you are perhaps a traitor.
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 person who objectively views the world and says the truth they see in it. Someone who does not allow the sentimental opinions of others cloud their judgement. A journalist is radical, they are catalysts of change. They are assertive and they are honest and you may say this is a rather ignorant or romanticized view of the world but if you do not exhibit these qualities you are not a journalist you are perhaps a traitor.
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