Journalism is not and cannot be profession. Discuss in the context with not less than five books.

 

NAME; TWENEBOAH FREMAH EUNICE

COURSE: INTRODUCTION IN JOURNALISM

INDEX NUMBER: BACS23143

 

 

 

 

Journalism is the activities of gathering, assessing, creating and presenting news and information to the public. Classifying the occupation of journalism is never an easy task. Journalism is often said not to be profession for one or more of the following reasons and instances from some books such as journalism ethics, making journalist, social media and society and journal 1908 are basically follows;

 To begin with, journalism is not and cannot be profession because from the book of journalism ethics we got to know that journalist are not licensed, they lack a body of theoretical knowledge, journalism has no required curium though which all or even most journalist must pass, journalist cannot exclude no journalist stringers, bloggers, and so on from reporting news, most journalist are not independent consultants but employees therefor lack professional autonomy, journalist are not serve clints, journalist are not members of any professional organization such as society of professional journalist and last journalist as such do not have high income though a few do. Just seeing all this reasons together may seem enough to settle the question of journalism status as a profession. Clearly, journalism is neither a profession or anything close. And yet many of us, perhaps even most journalist, fell that journalism is profession or at least, much more like nursing, teaching, or engineering than like selling cars or writing novels. My worry is not whether journalism is now a profession, but whether it can remain a profession in a world where commerce, politics, and technology seem to be working against journalism as we have known it. The great media empire now treats news as a way of getting attention for their advertisements, not as a public service. Governments around the world, including our own, have come increasingly to consider journalist’s a nuisance rather than the Fourth Estate and the internet seems to be making news organization, including their journalist’s, unnecessary. The future seems to belong to the bloggers.

     In additionally, journalism is not and cannot be profession because in the book of making journalist, I got to know that, people working in these occupations are considered to be a selected group of high-status practitioners administering specialized service to members of the community. They generally undergo a length period of tertiary training in their specially and when admitted to practice normally enjoy a share in a monopoly in the performance of their work. Unlike the classical profession, the depth of abstract knowledge on which the practice of journalism is based is both limited and less clearly defined, while the emphasis on practical skills bring journalism closer than a profession. Although journalism has had to face a set of very specific problems inherent in its practice, the sociology of profession and occupation has jugged with providing some stable guidelines on how to characterize professions in general. For instance, the founding father of sociology, Marx, Weber and Durkheim, remained relatively vague about the role of the professions, subsuming them under what they deemed the more importance categories of their respective theories. Marx’s central theme of the class struggles left little room for a profession but the divisions of the society across class lines and not attribute any special role to the profession. Similarly, weber did not pay much attention to the profession as sociology category in itself and was not interested in the function of profession for both their members and society.

      Last but not least, according to my research I found that in the journalism book of social media and the society I got to know that journalism is not and cannot be profession because, what I no longer believe is that the news industry as it has traditionally been organized is necessary for journalism as an ideology to survived and for the work of journalist to remain relevant to the people lives. So, am for what journalism? How does it respond to social, cultural, political, and technological transformation, and how does it stay true to its own ideas? What makes it good and inspiring network possible? Journalism, I originally believe, is first and foremost a set of values such as breaking news, uncovering the truth, and providing a public a service. These values would get meaning in the news culture of a specific time and place, country, a medium and a news organization. All this squared rather nicely with the agreement of mews as an industry in society, where expect institutions such as mainstream newspaper and broadcast news organization would function as the ‘go to’ place for the latest and most reliable source of news and quality journalist where hardworking journalist would go about their business in the relative safety of the newsroom. For instance, in the start of the 21^st century, has generally furthered a rather narrow range of conceptualization of the profession and its performance and role in society, thereby itself to the arrangement of news as an industry, reifying its internal operation, and subsequently limiting the creative potential of profession. And to some extent, I see my original work as part of the exercise to achieve coherence and consensus rather than fully embrace the messy realities of journalism as a set of work.

        In conclusion, journalism is not and cannot be a profession because I got to understands that in the context of the book of journalist 1980 because that year was not remarkable by most accounts but it was an auspicious year for journalism. As newspaper sought to recover from big city yellow journalism and circulation was that reached their boiling point of a few years earlier during the Spanish -America war, press club began to campaign higher education, and school dedicated to journalism education led by the university of Missouri, began to emerge. Now sanctioned by universities, journalism could teach acceptable behavior and establish credential. It was nothing less than the birth of the profession. Journalism in 1980 opens a window on mass communication a century ago. It tells how the news in the united states were fundamental changes by the creation of the academic department and school of journalism, by founding of the national press club, and by exciting advance that include early newsreels, the introduction of halftone to print and even changes in newspaper design. For instance, journalism educator Betty Houchin Winfield gathered a team of well-known media scholars, all specialist in particular arear of journalism history, to examine the status of their profession in 1980, news organization, business practices, media law, advertising, forms of coverage from sports of arts and more. Various facets of journalism are explored and situated within the county history and the movement towards reform and professionalism not only formalized standards and ethics but also labor issues concerning pay, hours, and jobs differentiation that came with the emergence of new technologies, 1980 commemorates a century of progress in the media and given the place of Missouri school of journalism in that history, is an appropriate celebration of that school centennial, it is lode of information about journalism education history that will surprise even many of those in the field and marks a seminal year with lasting significance for the profession. This the reasons why I strongly stand that journalism is not and cannot be a profession.

                                             REFRENCES

1.      Biner, M, 2010 is journalism A craft Or A Profession. In Is journalism. A Craft Or A Profession’s 1.s.n.

2.      Davis, M, 2016.