have lost faith in something pretty important to me in my life, something I think about and do almost everyday I wake up. Something I want to do for the rest of my life, but hear terrible things about from many people all over the world, whether it may come from a co-worker, student, family member or movie, I have lost a little bit of faith in the media in our country. It started when the war started

in Iraq, when I heard people saying the mainstream media wasn’t telling the real story about what was going on. I heard journalists were too afraid to go out and get the real stories, for fear of being killed or imprisoned, so they stayed in their hotel rooms overseas making phone calls from their rooms and did their reporting that way. I have also heard that journalists were being paid off by media companies telling them what to write.

It scares me that citizens of the United States aren’t getting the right information, we are being fed what the top media giants want us to hear. I can’t help but think, “What do they not want us to know?” We pay our taxes and work five days a week to have two days off on the weekend to take care of things such as laundry and cleaning, stuff we don’t have time to take care of during the work week because we are too busy being drones to our boss’s. So, why aren’t we sheep allowed to hear about what’s really going on in the herd?

We sit on our couches and watch the news or read the newspapers, knowing that not all information we are watching or reading is reliable. There are documentaries
sitting on movie store shelves about this very subject, which means I’m not the only one angered by this suspicion.

I’m a journalism major, and I decided I wanted to be in this profession for the rest of my life because I want to be able to make a difference in people’s lives, and I want to be able to uncover the injustices going on in the world today. However, I read and hear about the many journalists who have been killedtrying to get that one interview with a person or trying to crack that one important story.

I was told last week to be carefulabout things I write about. I was told that I could get
hurt or messed with because of something that’s printed, and maybe someof the things I write should stay in my journal or diary. If I listened to this nonsense, I would be the epitome of a reporter who should go back to school for another profession.

Journalists are here to inform the public of information they don’t know about to help them with their lives, or just for the simple fact that they, as American citizens have a right to know what’s going on in their country or world. I’m not going anywhere because I’m being intimidated, if anything it will give me something to write about, regardless of the threat.