Trick or Treat

Are you a lazy college student? Yea… I bet you’re thinking, who isn’t? After hearing Robert Montemayor speak for my media class, I realized that I could go anywhere or do anything no matter how hard it is. Robert Montemayor and Helen Pike are similar types of people because both go for what they want despite the obstacles standing in their way. They are both honest people in search of honest journalism, but today’s journalistic world is full of “lies, damned lies, and statistics”.

Guest speaker, Montemayor, made a very good point--journalists are like doctors because in order to be successful, they both have to “treat” you. You have to be on your “game” or lose your job and today’s economic repression makes losing easier than ever compared to coming out on top. Today’s newsrooms animals are literally becoming extinct. Any position, at anytime, can be stripped and indirectly turned over to citizens. Citizens can pick and choose what goes into the printed news and what comes out. Who needs ombudsmen anymore when today’s “educated” citizens are the newsrooms’ best judges?

Currently, demographics are essential. The once “small” newspapers are slamming the “metro” newspapers because more people are staying local. I mean, who cares about the New York Times if you live in Las Vegas? Not to mention, the Hispanic stations (like Univision) are kicking ABC’s, NBC’s, and CBS’s butts put together! This is because what was once the minority is now the majority and aiming towards specific groups of people is what makes or breaks media in today’s society.

So… Why settle for bologna news or basically garbage in print form? In this media world, being honest will get you ten steps farther than the dishonest pig sitting next to you in your cubicle. Arresting people, or just embarrassing them, without a badge through words, which make sentences, which make stories, is such a better feeling than tearing their life apart and posting their mug shots from Rutgers University to UCLA. You can protect yourself without a gun. Everyone needs a little loving in their life. Who wants to be tricked when you can be treated?