My Moral High Ground

In the beginning was the Web, and the Web was with Blog, and the Web was Blog. This adaptation of John 1:1, best describes my current academic focus. Let it be known that I’m studying to be a journalist, perhaps the modern day equivalent of the bibles wretched tax collector, the most loathed of trades and my pending assignment is to blog my way to internet stardom.

How can this be? A Christian and a journalist? Surely that stretches even God’s infinite imagination.

Though I write this in jest, you’d be suprised just how many times I’ve encountered such a reaction, and before anyones begins spouting about judgmental bible-bashers, it is not only the church goers who think of this career choice as demonic.

When people ask what I study, I have begun to articulate the word “Journalism” as an apology rather than a statement. The disappointment is tangible as the ‘asker’ tries to hide their disgust and inaudibly mumbles something vaguely positive about some broadsheet or another. To admit such an ambition is apparently a serious social faux pas.

The truth is I actually enjoy my course and though I would never claim that the media is undeserving of its despised reputation, I still believe that something can be salvaged from its current miserable state. Our world is headed down the road to self destruction and drastically needs to change. Carefully wielded, the media is a revolutionary weapon, but the key is not to abuse its power.

This my friends is why I study journalism, not to promote the media, but to change it.