"I became a journalist because I did not want to depend on the newspaper for information," is a quote by Christopher Hitchens, and I'm in complete agreement. Newspapers can easily become biased, and they sometimes leave out information in their articles to sway you to one side. At times they misinform the public.
When you're working at a newspaper you see everything before it gets edited, or changed into something the paper would prefer to let the public know. If you work for a newspaper, you get the information you want, without having to rely on other people to tell you what you want to know. I don't enjoy being dependent on people I don't trust, and I don't trust the newspaper. Whose to say they aren't lying to me?
I didn't get into journalism for the reason stated in the quote, but it is something that I can see cementing my beliefs that is you want the real news, you have to be the one getting it.
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