Someone recently asked me when I starting caring so much
about the news. It made me realize that it was not until high school that I
become truly invested and engaged in gathering news. I think there should be a
class that begins in elementary or middle schools that teaches kids about the
importance of being informed. The younger kids are when they learn that the
news is important to the way society functions, the sooner they realize the
importance of staying in the known. In this class, students would read lighter
news stories that are simplified for understanding. The different sections of a
newspaper, journalism ethics, and some of the most well known journalists
through history could all be topics of discussion. At most colleges and
universities, journalism is a relatively small major. If students were trained
to be news consumers at a younger ago, maybe more people would be drawn to the
field as a career.
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