My Journey To Eliminate Bias In The Media

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My entire life, I knew that I was destined to have a career associated with writing; it was my past, present, and future. My ultimate goal is to eliminate bias in the media, but for now I am satisfied as long as I attain a job that includes writing. Throughout my life, I seized several opportunities to turn one hobby into my future.

At the age of eight, I mostly cared about about three things: High School Musical, what was for dinner, and journalism. I had recently moved from England to Hawaii and was curious as to why my new, shiny, perfect elementary school did not have a school newspaper. I marched myself over to the principal’s office and demanded to know why a school with such a big budget and population would have no organized system

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