Electronic Journalism: First Day

Yesterday the topic was the discussion of the beginning of journalism compared to industrial journalism and the present world of post-industrial journalism. Originally, journalism was tightly controlled by the crown and as the crown lost hold, people started printing all sorts of ideas. In this time journalism was a wild and woolly world of propaganda, nut-cases and the occasional bout of hard news. Then came the major printing presses, huge machines that only corporations had the money to own, so journalism became largely a business affair.

Corporate journalism is what ultimately drove me away from the career I had chosen (photo-journalism) going out of high-school since I know myself to be an idealist who struggles with compromise (in some places I know that I'm too rigid, in others I'm happy with my strong values). I had some very honest journalist-mentors who I am all-too grateful for, since I am now on a much better route.

However, lately I've been trying to find my place as the sick world's injustice and the growing world's beauty piles up around me; I cannot simply stay silent and hiding. So I sit here, trying to write, with my ears jamming to Against Me! (Reinventing Axl Rose), my brain swimming with snippets of ideas and questions half-formed, unsure what this month will bring.

Isn't that feeling gorgeous?