I am Anti-Change; thus, I dislike the "New Goals for Journalists" stuff

Okay, well I am not entirely anti-change. Really, I am only when it affects me. The following are the list of "New Goals for Journalists" as discussed in class (I have only listed the ones I dislike):

•   Impulse to publish news simply because it is already “out there”
• Journalists can get away with not doing investigation
• Journalists spend more time finding the existing news, rather than discovering and cerifying new facts
• Journalists risk becoming more receivers than gathers (passive vs active)

Example of a gather: http://tinyurl.com/3tfzbmd where journalist is under combat as he is gathering information. Clearly, he is not on the receiving end of the information as he is experiencing it/seeing it first hand. Here is my favorite example of an active journalist: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=On4OE9Ikb4U. This journalist risks his own freedom to document the Taliban up close and personal. He was allowed to shoot this documentary before he was captured by them.

http://colman.net/desk.jpg Although this journalist is in all actuallity an award winning investigative journalist in Toronto, this picture shows him on the receiving end of journalism.

What is the point of even being a journalist if you are going to go by these "goals"? I do not see much to it. Who wants to read something that is already out there? I most certainly do not. Who wants to keep seeing the same news over and over? Not me. Journalists, in my opinion, need to investigate. they need to find new news. Old news is not really news at all. Existing news might as well be old news. Also, as a future journalist, I think I would be very bored if I were to become just a receiver and not a gather. The reason why I chose this careerfield is because I am big into the idea of "snooping around", investigating, uncovering truths, exploiting truths, and perhaps even being held responsible for truth being brought into the general public.

Honestly, the reason why I decided to become a journalist was because of the notion that I could get fully involved in it. I craved the action. I saw those journalists on the news after 9/11 who were about to get beheaded by the Taliban and I thought to myself "They are the martyrs of truth" and besides the martyr part, I wanted to be just like those journalists--always standing for truth.