Engagement and Relevance
I believe journalists should give people what the need to know, not what they want. Someone in the class said that we all thought that because we’re idealists, which I completely agree with. If we were going to give most people what they wanted, the headlines would always be entertainment journalism - Charlie Sheen gets booed on tour (http://thedailywh.at/2011/04/02/so-this-happened-of-the-day-12/) and Justin Beiber gets a haircut . The public doesn’t want to hear about the war in Iraq or the lack of women’s rights in Libya (http://thedailywh.at/2011/04/04/follow-up-of-the-day-eman-al-obeidi/) but it will some day be part of our history and just as we need to learn about World War II in school, we need to keep up with current events.
