2008 Woodie Awards
The View From Here
If I had known then what I know now, then I may have never known what there is to know...I think.
Neill Herbert
Date created: 10/11/04 Section: OPINION
But what about the "regular people," the people reading the news over coffee or flipping channels during prime time? Without the public watching, the news media is pointless. Whether it is a bunch of bloggers exposing forged documents or community college staff members pointing out false information, it is still the duty of the public to seek out the truth.
Skyline College should be a place where learning is encouraged. The newspaper you hold in your hands exists to make that happen. The students whose writing appears on these pages are actively learning about the process that is journalism. In the non-cheesiest way possible, it is a labor of love. And we get CSU-transferrable units for doing it.
If any student newspaper was perfect, there would be no point in the writers and editors being students. This is a learning process, and I think I may have learned more about journalism in the past few weeks than I had ever wanted to know before.
I am thankful to those who care enough to correct and teach. With greater knowledge and discipline, we will need correction less in the future.
I can only hope that my fellow students at this institution of higher learning care enough to actively join in on that process and to seek truth and speak up when they feel misled as well.
Skyline College should be a place where learning is encouraged. The newspaper you hold in your hands exists to make that happen. The students whose writing appears on these pages are actively learning about the process that is journalism. In the non-cheesiest way possible, it is a labor of love. And we get CSU-transferrable units for doing it.
If any student newspaper was perfect, there would be no point in the writers and editors being students. This is a learning process, and I think I may have learned more about journalism in the past few weeks than I had ever wanted to know before.
I am thankful to those who care enough to correct and teach. With greater knowledge and discipline, we will need correction less in the future.
I can only hope that my fellow students at this institution of higher learning care enough to actively join in on that process and to seek truth and speak up when they feel misled as well.
