The fairy tale says that three apples fell from the sky. When you are simply a reader, you wonder about the color of those apples, were they large or small, who got the first share, why was the last one half ripe etc.? When you are a journalist, another question is added to this list, who\u2019s idea was it to throw three apples from the sky?<\/p>\n
Usually, in order to be different from ordinary media consumers, you should learn to swim in the sea of information.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s not that difficult, for example, you can pick a few newsletters, but it\u2019s better to pick a few active Facebook users and follow them for a month.<\/p>\n
Soon it will be clear as to who\u2019s speaking from what position even if you get caught up with the idea that without reading the person\u2019s opinion you generally know what they would write. You will learn how people take trivial topics and turn them into topics of discussion, leaving the important things in the shadows.<\/p>\n
With time, those people, as well as the news, will become predictable for you, and clickbait headlines will no longer be worthy of your click, and if they are worthy, then hold tight, the media managed to fool you again.<\/p>\n
\nIf you need to put a puzzle together and they give you a pair of glossy eyes of a donkey in the picture, then it doesn\u2019t mean that the donkey doesn\u2019t have a ridiculous tail.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Often, people express views without a complete understanding of the information, they are satisfied with a pair of glossy eyes. And in the end it turns out that the lovely eyes will not turn the donkey into a winged pegasus.<\/p>\n
You should always have your own justification as to why you say what you do about this or that topic. If your reasoning is that the media talked about it, then better believe that the world will continue to rotate around the sun without your fascinating and interesting observation. Honestly.<\/p>\n
The media is a personality, for example, it is like your neighbor\u2019s grandmother. You\u2019d be better off listening to twenty minutes of screamo music, a wide-eyed fearful boy, a dishonest girlfriend, and the details of the coming years, than to spend forty minutes convincing her that it\u2019s difficult to consider coffee streaks as fate lines.<\/p>\n
\nIn the same way, the media doesn\u2019t care about your opinion, it must speak and so it speaks.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Sometimes the media environment teaches us about the risks of politeness. When you\u2019ve been standing for ten minutes and you haven\u2019t had a turn to ask any of the ten questions you have in your mind because you have waited patiently for your coworker to finish their question, and in the second of silence that followed, another new journalist jumps in, then you understand the rules of the game are different and made up on the spot.<\/p>\n
There is a famous Latin phrase, Carpe Diem meaning \u201cseize the day,\u201d the gospel of a journalist begins and ends with this expression.<\/p>\n
A journalist is like a tightrope walker balancing on the rope of time: what you have in your head may also appear in your coworker\u2019s head, because ideas are the result of thinking and it turns out that thinking is not just your gift.<\/p>\n
A lot can be said about a journalist\u2019s personality based on their clickbaity and non-clickbaity headlines. It gives you insight about the journalist\u2019s imagination, creativity, skills, bad mood, and a thousand other things. <\/p>\n
\nIf you are a good film director, then what\u2019s happening in the \u201couttakes\u201d will really stay out of the shot, and if you are a smart film director then it\u2019s possible to make the \u201couttakes\u201d shots the most delectable part of your material.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
The journalist is directly proportionate to the responsibility of being present or absent. For example if I want to be lazy \u201cat least one time,\u201d then you would be dependent on my whim and read about the great painter Ashot, who is actually my neighbor\u2019s seven-year-old grandson who has just started to learn how to make little snowmen out of playdough, and the absurdity is that you bear the brunt of all this, because we were senseless enough to say proudly at my neighbor\u2019s house that I am a journalist.<\/p>\n
Here, journalism is turning into a field of \u201cunconditional cynics,\u201d but take a breath, everything isn\u2019t lost, because next to these \u201cunconditional cynics\u201d are \u201ctroubled worriers,\u201d who will not deviate from their conviction, even if those around them think that they are riding a horse backwards.<\/p>\n
The difference between these two types are that responsible bodies don\u2019t like the second kind especially, and the first type can\u2019t even stand the second kind either.<\/p>\n
\nDo you remember the tightrope walker, that I mentioned earlier? Journalism is a process, time is the rope on which the journalist-rope-dancer plays. Their problem is one, not to fall and to keep your (the audience down below) attention.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
But do not be naive, they also know that even falling would be a great fortune and would become a sensational clickbait. But until that, they need to learn how to keep balance, both in conditions of heat and hail, if, of course, you still continue to watch them, otherwise there\u2019s no point in giving a monologue.<\/p>\n
The professions of writers and journalists are similar to each other. Both sell words, with the difference being that reporters create things more using real names, while writers use fake names to tell the truth.<\/p>\n
Nane Petrosyan
\nYSU Journalism Faculty student
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