27th FEBRUARY 2012 - LECTURE 1

I would not say that journalism has always been a passion of mine, or that it was the one career I had always wanted to do. Still now I think it might not me the profession I end up earning a living from. However, it has always interested and somewhat fascinated me. The concept of scoping out the story, uncovering the facts and finding the story. The idea that the world could ultimate be changed for the better through something that I have written that is what attracts me to journalism. In this first lecture presented by Bruce Redman for JOUR1111 a lot of my initial intrigues for journalism and the reasons why I chose this course were reconfirmed through quotes from famous people of the journalism industry either in the past or the present. Such as the quote by Henry R. Luce, American publisher and editor, that, "I became a journalist to come as close as possible to the heart of the world."

That is what I inspire to do. To somehow connect with the amazing place that is planet Earth and the people that inhabit it, through the medium of journalism. I want to travel the world and talk to different people and experience their culture and then share it with the world because it was so extraordinary that everyone needs to know about it. What I aspire to do is to ensure that I can achieve what I want by encouraging the public to not turn news into entertainment, but to allow it to remain an experience. That is why I'm doing a communication degree as well. 

So to hopefully begin this experience I will start with this blog. A blog that follows what happened on this particular day in history, any given year, any given place. Through this not only will I learn something, experience something, but hopefully I'll help others learn something too.

After all, isn't the purpose of this course to be the story teller? 

All I'm doing is telling the story of human life.