Unless we experience and event or issue first hand we have no way of knowing what is going on in the world around us. From my last post journalism is the reporting or investigation of events or issues. For example If a student attended the BYU football game then they would have a first hand account of that experience. However if they were not able to attend the game then they would have to find out about the result from a form of journalism. They could watch the news on T.V. or check the sports section of the newspaper the next day. How we find out what is giong on the world around us is all linked back to a form of journalism.
I like William F. Woo's statement on journalism's purpose. Woo is a professor of journalism at Stanford University. He states, "the purpose of journalism is not doing journalism—any more than the purpose of surgery is cutting patients open and sewing them back together again. The skill of the knife is important but only so far as it serves the larger purpose of surgery: restoring patients to health and productivity. Similarly, the skill of journalists—their ability to report and edit well—is necessary for journalism to serve its purpose, which I consider a public trust.
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| William F. Woo |
I like how he states that journalism's purpose goes deeper than just the act of reporting and ivestigating events and issues. Journalist need to be able to report and edit well so that the public can get the accurate information about news and events. Through journalism we we can stay connected with what is happening without actually being presently there.
http://www.uuworld.org/2004/06/bookshelf.html
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