Qualifications of a Journalist

    Today a journalist seems to be anyone who wants to publish stories about the world, but is that what I really is? Journalist is suppose to be about informing the public about what is going on. Journalist is suppose to be about the truth that needs to be know. It could be newspaper articles, vlogs, blogs, videos, radios, podcast, and what ever media to inform the people. You ever heard of the journalist Bob Woodward? Well he meets the qualification in my eyes to be a journalist. I know you don't need a license to become one, but he is a true journalist. Bob Woodward  is very truthful and seems pretty "legit".
  He tries his best to report the truth and puts in a ton of effort.

"Now, the great dreaded thing every reporter lives with is what you don't know. The source you didn't go to. The phone call you didn't return. The back of the document you didn't look at."

- Bob Woodward

    That quote by Bob Woodward seems to tell us how he feels about journalism. He seems to dreads the fact that there is so much we still don't know. As he said "The source you didn't go to." He will go to. "The phone call you didn't return." He will return." The back of the document you didn't look at." He will look at. That is the journalist job. The measures we take doesn't matter for truth to come out. A real, a true journalist will try his or her best to find the truth and tell the people every little detail no matter how big or small it is. The entire truth is important. Bob Woodward put in so much effort to publish the truth of the "Watergate scandal" and this caused the resignation of President Richard Nixon from numerous government investigations.

    Another great journalist is Seymour Hersh. In the 1960's he broke out the story of the massacre of Vietnam civilization. This earned him the Pulitzer Prize. After that Hersh tried breaking the news of the CIA secretly spying on the U.S. citizens over attempts to overthrow the leader Chile. He did this while taking story tips for being a part of the New York Times staff. He is also a great journalist in my eyes. He reported the truth and went through great measures to retrieve evidence to back up his articles. I, myself would love to be like these two journalist. Maybe one day I can work my way up to being that important.