Why I want to be a journalist.

In this day of age, the most critical part of the story is the unspoken truth. It lies behind all of the "two sides to the story" explanations. Not only in South Africa, but around the world there is hushed corruption, inequality, and at times complete violations of human rights. As a journalist you are put out in the field for one reason; to voice the truth, or portray the story. We are servants to the public and should give them the findings we accumulate. This is what I hope to achieve in the future. On the contreversial topic on objectivity I feel we should "call a rock, a rock". In other words, document all the actions or emotions of a story, we must paint the whole picture of the issue. Yes there are times where we may be subjective in our findings, but if that subjectivity is the case, we must represent it so. For example, The Rwandian genocide was labeled as such, however nobody spoke to the persecutors and asked them what they would have called it. Yes many people died and yes it was a horrific incident, however "both sides" of the story was not seen, only the victims' side. This enforces my point that at times one would have to be subjective if the story's facts point in this direction.