Personal Narrative: Three Things I Learned

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Three Things I Learned

In a world full of sensationalized news stories, propaganda, and a need and greed for ratings, isn’t better to skip watching the news? In the document, “What is a Journalist”, it seems that a journalist should have a heart and integrity. Then upon reading, “How Journalists Write”, it is very obvious, that journalists are forced to sensationalize. Look at Fox news and the Ebola scare. I was ready to run to the woods and pull all my money out of the stock market. If everyone felt that way and acted upon it, we would have had a total economic collapse! So you tell me if that was good journalism or not. Was it helping or hurting the American public? I think we could have done without it.

I did learn, upon reading these

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