My favorite enrichment workshop was the one about journalism. This class introduced me to the many aspects of journalism. I learned that our information is based on the sources we use. Since we live in an age of information and computing. Information can now be easily accessed through a push of a button. Although this is a good thing for our age. Information from these sources can be either false or misunderstood. This not only hurts credibility of the source but the employees’ jobs are in jeopardy as well. One example is the newsmagazine called Inside Edition. The newsmagazine introduced us to a story about this woman named Desries Jennings who had a disorder called dystonia. She claimed that cause of the illness was by receiving a seasonal flu shot. This caued her dramatic spasms and slurred speech.Although this her story seems believable, it is in essence fake. When Inside Edition found her walking normally cameras found her walking normally, playing with her dogs, going shopping, even getting behind the wheel of a car and driving, it destroyed their own credibility to operate in journalism
Another aspect of journalism was the notion of misusing information to serve one’s own purpose. The culprit that commited this heinous crime time and time again was Fox News. The newschannel one day shown clips of protests against washington. The problem with these clips is that they are mismatched with ones from the past. This shows dishonesty and awful journalism in their part. In order to be better journalists we must consider our source when making a story and check it. If we do that then our story is credible and recoghnizable.
