My Relationship to the News

I am a child of my time: I certainly grew up in a digital era and my relationship with the news reflects that. I get the vast majority of my information about the world around me from the internet, and even the TV news that I watch is usually streamed (I don't even have a cable hookup in my dorm).
For the most part, I receive my news from two different people, Brian Williams and Jon Stewart (and by extension Stephen Colbert). While I usually watch Williams because that is the network my family would always turn on at dinner time, Jon Stewart was something I picked up on my own. While he hooked me with his political humor, what struck me was how topical he was and how what he was actually saying was really informative. But what struck home that this "comedy show" could and should be taken seriously is when the 9/11 first responders were not being granted health care by the government despite the medical ailments the had due to their heroic actions. And almost no one was covering it. But Stewart brought on a group of first responders and did an interview with them that nearly single-handedly helped that bill pass through congress. My uncle was nearly killed in the 9/11 attack on the Pentagon (a lucky traffic jam saved his life, his office was completely destroyed) so this may hit a little closer to home for that, but on that day Jon Stewart earned my trust as an established Journalist and my respect as a human being.
My relationship with journalism is a little different from most, in that I first got into through my photography and the writing came after. I view things from that angle a lot of the time, and putting together an article that didn't belong in the entertainment section was difficult for me at least at the beginning of this semester, probably because of all the time I spent as entertainment editor of my high schools paper. My ideal goal is to eventually become a photo-journalist who travels the world taking pictures of serene landscapes exotic animals and even more exotic cultures. The life of a behind-the-desk journalist doesn't really appeal to me very much (though, granted, I don't think it appeals to many others, either), and a job as either a photographer for a paper/online publication/ photographer in general would be fine.