I currently have a C in my Intro to Journalism class. Why? Because for some reason the majority of our grade is based on frivolous current event pop quizzes instead of you know--writing assignments. I DO keep up with current events. But glancing around at other people's grades as quizzes are being passed out--I know I'm not the only one struggling with this grading concept. How on EARTH are we supposed to be prepared to know about a random picking of ten events when there are THOUSANDS going on and being reported about at one time. A better quiz would be to LIST ten current events, so students can share what THEY have found and there's more of a diversity going. I am sorry I don't pay attention to the copy-cat strikers (aka some new group every week) after the infamous teacher's strike. It's like when everyone started to get photographed not wearing underwear after Paris Hilton did. Eventually they all started to blend in---"Who was it this week?" I think we have a total of three writing assignments in this class (including a book review on the media one I complained about in the last post). Now it's not a matter of how well I write my articles--because I always turn in a well written paper--it's a matter if my professor likes it or not because from the vibes I've gotten thusfar from her---she does not like me. My guess is that ever since the first day when I announced I was a broadcast concentration I got an invisible eyeroll. "Oh so you just want to be on TV" she and many others I'm sure thought.
WRONG.
This is what angers me about having to choose a concentration/explaining "what I want to do with my life" to others. I don't want to be just some talking puppet who reads off the ongoings of the county fair or what I'm sure many think I aim to do --be a semi-well dressed reporter on the sidelines of the red carpet interviewing all the pretty people. No. I want to be the reporter famous people WANT to nab an interview with. I want to do some broadcasting so people have a face to my words, and I want my image to be one that they can trust, and always know they are getting the best and most honest information from. I want to ask those hard questions--the ones that push the line. I want an audience to know me as a person, not just a face on a screen or a byline underneath the headline. I want to connect the world through my words, my thoughts, and my reports so a majority of the world has a common connection with top stories.
So no, to anyone who thinks otherwise, I don't want to just be some "anchor". I eventually want to start my own magazine, for TODAY'S woman, who doesn't need a 100 page magazine simply on what lipstick to choose. For someone ultra literate, appreciative of history and the future, who doesn't mind look stylish while she's conquering her own world. I want to interview Presidents and world leaders, one hit wonder singers and incognito hollywood stars. I want to do it all.
And I don't need anyone who thinks I'm aiming too high, to be standing in my way.
Rant.
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Thursday, October 4, 2012
