Lecture One

This is my first post for my Journalism and Communication blog! I'll start by giving my thoughts on the first lecture. It seems like this will be an interesting course, especially because journalism is changing with technology and there are things like online news, blogs, twitter etc. I particularly liked the quote in the lecture about journalism being the first rough draft of history. I have included that slide, as well as a couple of others from the lecture.

Pic from: http://www.mediaspy.org/report/2011/03/14/us-online-news-marches-on-as-prints-decline-continues/

I also found another good quote about journalism:

"Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them."
Aldai E. Stevenson

In addition to posting about every lecture I will also be posting various other things that I find interesting.

Pic from: http://au.ibtimes.com/articles/81145/20101112/fairfax-gears-up-to-cash-it-on-popular-news-sites-smh-the-age.htm

"People may expect too much of journalism. Not only do they expect it to be entertaining, they expect it to be true."

Lewis H. Lapham, Editor of Harper's Magazine 

Pic from: http://www.perthnow.com.au/business/business-old/newspapers-show-their-true-political-colours/story-e6frg2qu-1225907646590

"I know of no human being who has a better time than an energetic young reporter."

 H.L. Mencken, Journalist and Social Critic