I found out recently through the wonders of Blackboard that I need to post about our first lecture. Something, I soon realised, that I'd failed to do.
I have the memory of a goldfish, so looking back on things is always and interesting challenge for me. But if there's one thing I remember about my first lecture, apart from the inevitable nerves and map-reading as I tried to find the room, it was the quotes. Granted, I didn't actually remember them. No, the slides helped with that. But I remembered sitting there, thinking about how true these quotes where, and how exciting they made the world of journalism seem.
Quite possibly my favourite was one written by a fellow called Phillip Graham, who was a publisher at the Washington Post. He said that "Journalism is the first rough draft of history." It's really exciting to think that something written for a newspaper or the 6 o'clock news could one day be the basis of what's written in a history textbook. Every day, history is getting written and recorded, and we're all a part of it. Everyone wants to make history, and to be remembered. Really, who wants to die without a mention of their name? But I'm studying to be one of the history-writers, one of the people that determines what is remembered. What journalists write decides on what will be remembered about an event in 50 or 100 years time. That's a lot of responsibility, but it's also very exciting. And I can't wait to start writing history.
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