Last night while eating dinner with my parents we watched an hour long tribute to Walter Cronkite. As I saw my parents think back on their lives as they watched, it was clear that to some extent, Walter Cronkite was the voice of their younger lives. I thought about what that'll be like when I'm older. I won't have that experience. We don't have that one trusted man anymore. Walter Cronkite unified a nation of people. People my age rarely watch the evening news anymore. We're not in that golden era of journalism anymore.
I think it's what all of us go to journalism school for, at least in part. We don't necessarily want to be the national face of the news, the bearer of bad news to the country. We don't all want to even tell the news stories. But we all want that trust. We want people to look to us as trustworthy actors of the media. Maybe none of us will be the voice of a generation. But we'll work toward it anyway. I think in some ways we're moving toward the future and toward the past. We learn all the newest technologies, we learn how to produce tight video packages and edit for online flash content. But inside a lot of us is that longing for things to go back to the way they were - when people read newspapers and magazines instead of looking online. I certainly hope that while I'm around those two things don't go out of style. Something about reading something held in my hand is so much more satisfying than reading online. Also, I'm not really a big fan of looking at photo editorials online. It takes something away.
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