Beginning Journalism

   This isn't much of an introduction, but I believe one of the greatest parts of life is the suspense over what is next in the way we are running. So here I begin, sort of in the beginning, and yet right in the middle of  a fantastic, amazing, difficult, but always purposeful journey to share the Truth my Lord has put in my heart and mouth to proclaim. 

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  Early American journalism represents a pattern that we would be wise to continue to follow. We now have many helpful developments in gathering, receiving, and printing which allows us to get information from all over the world in hours, rather than months just to get news from England. We have numerous major newspapers, radio stations, and TV networks that instantly update us on worldwide events. Yet in this flood of information, the small, local newspapers which generated the unity and patriotism among the thirteen colonies to rebel against the most powerful nation in the world, has now been diluted.

  However, this broad focus in journalism on the rest of the world merely reflects what people want from the news and media. Freedom of the press, protected by the First Amendment, changes according to our interests. And, though it may be harmful at times, this is how it should work: the people should have the freedom to receive and direct information as they choose.

  If this freedom were ended, restricted, or even hindered by the government so much would be lost! Lack of or distorted information leaves us to make error after error that would ultimately lead to the crumbling of our democracy; it could lead us into an unnecessary war or hide from us the truth about how our small actions effect the grand scheme of things. In essence, an uninformed people are not a people, but robots doing someone else's bidding, and if we have been given minds to use we must not be content to let someone else run them. We must search and fight for the truth now, otherwise we may never find it. It is there, God has it waiting for those who will run after it, but we must run to it now!