Journalist Heroes?

Since Watergate, journalist stopped taking part of conspiracy of silence. Before things that would be to embarrassing for the government wouldn't be reported, now everything that happens is heard. I think that Journalist are heroes because they report things that the public need to know for their own good. If it wasn't for journalist people wouldn't know whats going on in the world and have no clue what they are doing. For    example, if an election was taken place and one of the electives did evil things in the past, it is up the reports to let the public know. If they didn't, the U.S government could have a villain in charge. I truly think that journalist are heroes and should be respected for their hard work.

What Does It Mean?

      Hot topic made a statement that referred to journalism. They said "Journalism's major problem nowadays is that it's too detached from the overall society". To me it means that people are to detached from reading and writing. I think that its true because i would always chose watching a Youtube video about news instead of having to search, find and read an article. People now are lazy and want to spend the time and read something. I think that the statement is 100% true and that people are starting to rely on the TV or other video to find News.

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2011 8th Grade Journal 1

      Hurricane Irene did a lot of damage to many homes. Lucky for us, no one in my family had any trouble. The only thing that happened was a little water in the basement of my house. We had running water the whole time and no power outages happened. 

     The worst thing that happened was 2 inches of water in the basement. I had to take a mop at 1 o'clock in the morning and go clean up the water. My parents didn't even help me clean; they just sat upstairs watching the news. I realized that the water wasn't going away, it just kept coming through the cracks in the walls. I had to call my father and tell him that he needs to fix it. He looked and looked until he opened a door and saw that the water didn't go into the water pump. He had to make a hole into the wall to have water flow into the pump instead of the floor, and in no time, everything was fixed.

      I went to bed at 4 in the morning. I used the Hurricane as an excuse to stay up late. Most of the time I was on Facebook and Skype. 

     The hurricane wasn't as bad as I thought and I am very thankful that there was no real problems that would damage the whole house.