Mr and Mrs America and all the ships at sea! Flash!
This was a familiar phrase in my house when I was a little kid. Radio still had a few programs on and “The Untouchables” was a weekly TV show. Walter Winchell was a weekly columnist and Hedda Hopper was still around. She was a very powerful columnist with many connections. I think I would like to be a columnist but not like the ones of my youth. In a lot of ways bloggers are the columnists of today. Most of them don’t work for a newspaper or TV or radio station but they give thier spin on the news thats in thier world. That’s not a bad thing at all. In class we have learned that newspapers, radio and TV all have a certain spin on the events they report, all the way from what they choose to report to how they look at the story they’re reporting. I guess if we get enough colmunists to report on the same story we will eventually learn what really happened. I remember it said that the journalists of today don’t have the luxury of taking time to report the news. If they wait too long somebody else will run with the story and it won’t be news anymore. A columnist doesn’t have to be so fast with everything. They can take a minute to think before they speak and possibly get a better grasp of the facts and not the sensationalism. Thats the kind of columnist I want to be when I grow up. Oh well, time to go to class. Miore on this story as soon as I have time to think and write. As always, let me know what you think about this.