Reporting from my room

With the advent of the cell phone, video cameras, and other means of recording whats going on right now, a journalist can be anyone from the girl next door to a two year old who can click and point a camera. If the American Dream is having the ability and equality to be whatever you want, this works perfectly. You can stream live video from your cell phone straight to YouTube, and have a million hits on a video, so long as its news people want to hear. But what about the American Dream of those journalists who went to school to learn how to do their profession to the tee, only to get stuck in this society, where professionalism and crudentials almost don’t matter anymore. Being a child of this era, I think it’s great that just about anyone can make enough YouTube videos and get famous. Many rags to riches stories have started this way. But there’s always the chance that people who are actually doing their jobs as journalists are losing their credibility, because just about ANYONE with a decent phone on their camera and a somewhat steady hand can tell a story.

Granted, now we can find out about news as it’s happening. But is that making everything beetter for everyone, seeing everything as soon as possible and from an eyewitness account? This is what the 21st century holds for us. Maybe the American Dream changes over time.