Jasmine Jaramillo
I am a college student and almost ready to take the world outside after graduating as a Communication Broadcast Journalists. Whether we like it or not, we will all face the same conduit, take the job and experience different impediment, in my case in the Media industry. In the workplace, I know there are lots of responsibilities that I should learn and countless things to unlearn. These things include what Maria Ressa wrote in her article "We are Journalists first" that pertains to the people judging their work whereas in fact they go through a dangerous yet clean path.
I am a college student and almost ready to take the world outside after graduating as a Communication Broadcast Journalists. Whether we like it or not, we will all face the same conduit, take the job and experience different impediment, in my case in the Media industry. In the workplace, I know there are lots of responsibilities that I should learn and countless things to unlearn. These things include what Maria Ressa wrote in her article "We are Journalists first" that pertains to the people judging their work whereas in fact they go through a dangerous yet clean path.
A work of being journalists is not easy as what other people think that it is just about researching and writing. Some say being a Journalist is easier because it has no computation or any other math problems, but I should say that being Journalists do not stop on just writing. Some high officials especially in the government think less of the profession of being Journalists. They thought that they can control those people behind the Media industry in exchange of what they call the "Envelopmental Journalism" that is an envelope contains money from the politician for their spotless name to the public. Of course some of the Journalists are not favor with this kind of system while some still divert to this so called "good will money" or "payola".
Being Journalists takes not just your intelligence, but also your heart to write what is authentic and comments on it without being biased. You are responsible on what you are writing so we must put in mind that it is not just about the reputation of those people we have as a subject while writing, but most importantly, it is about our reputation as a Journalists trusted by the people. We chose this kind of career so we must take control of it by being responsible and by writing by heart for heart. Who knows, we might inspire readers by our writings and produce good Journalists in the next generation.
I must say that being a journalist is indeed a hard job and it takes passion to actually do such responsibility. If we don't have passion or we don't love what we are doing with the profession or the course that we take we don't have the guts in staying in the course. I agree that being a journalist doesn't end at being a journalist only that writes but a journalist who writes by heart and inspires others
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ReplyDeleteA true journalist always ends up with the truth, just like Maria Ressa did, she told the truth even though it is against to her boss. She was a truly admirable journalist. If every journalist was like her, I think we will be a better country just like others.
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