Last week, we talked about what journalism's role is in society--where it fits in among all the different practices, business, and politics of our world.
Like what our book says, I think that a main function of journalism is to provide common people with the information they need to be completely self-governing, and this means to report the truth in the best way possible. Journalists also act like teachers, sifting through information and extracting what is most important and presenting it in the clearest way possible.
I think that people rely on the press to act like "gatekeepers"or "watchdogs" on government. If there were no journalists assigned to report on politicians, political organizations, and government overall, the people would have no idea what their elected officials were doing.
I think that we, as a society, should be thankful to the founding fathers who established a Bill of Rights that allows for freedom of our press--for if we didn't have a free press, we would have an ill informed, confused society of people.
In short, I think that journalism sits in a key and vital spot in society--we do our best to clearly convey information to the public so that they can be free and self-governing--characteristics that are at the very core of what our nation was founded upon.
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