Lecture 1

Unfortunately, I missed the first lecture, I did not realise my stupidity until the second lecture and witnessed what a great speaker Dr Redman is, but here is my summary after watching it on lectopia. Unlike most lectures in week one, that only offer a summary of the course I most likely could have read in the course profile, Dr Redman jumped straight into different peoples opinions on journalism. From Philip Graham’s inspiring belief that “journalism is the first draft of history” to Edward Eggleston’s cynical opinion that “journalism is organised gossip” it can be identified that due to the many differing types of journalism there are a wide variety of opinions on the significance of journalists. Often when I think of journalism the phrase ‘dying art/career’ springs to mind, but now I can see that it is not journalism that is dying, it is just as it expands through the ever changing forms of technology that types of journalism, such as print newspapers, may be slowly dying out. The lecture also covered the difference between studying journalism and doing journalism, plus reasons for studying journalism even if one is not interested in becoming a journalist. From this lecture, I can tell JOUR1111 is going to be a fun, and somewhat challenging course this semester, and I am looking forward to expanding my horizons and learning many new things.