Well hello blogging world!

I'm Sarah...your normal scared to death of the real world undergraduate senior. I am finishing up my last fall semester as an undergrad and getting ready for real life. Scary. I plan on going to graduate school to not only delay the inevitable of the real world, but to hopefully better my chances at eventually becoming a professor in my field of choice; Journalism. That's right ladies and gentlemen; I want to be a Journalist...the Anderson Cooper of the writing world. That's the best way I can sum it up. Unfortunately, that might be able to happen. Why you ask yourself? Because the world of journalism is rapidly changing and blogs like this are making it happen.

People in the profession are worried that people will only turn to what they call "citizen journalists" for their news and information. Some think that pretty soon the field of journalism will be obsolete...I however, disagree. I believe that with a society like the one that we are currently living in, needs real, fair and impartial journalists more than ever. If we relied solely on bloggers for our information, not only would we be sifting through mountains of opinions on a daily basis and never really know what was happening in the world, but we would be subjected to incorrect information. I'm not saying that bloggers don't portray the news correctly; in fact I think bloggers can. However, I do not believe that human beings, by nature, get all the facts before reacting to some situations. We are emotional and instinctual creatures and go with our gut instincts. What I am saying is that journalists who are trained to represent the world in a fair and unbiased light are able to weed out emotion when it comes to hard news stories.

I'm not really sure if my point is getting across to all you who may be reading this. And I'm not sure that I can adequately portray what I am thinking at 1am. But the coffee and the pure adrenaline of knowing that I am almost done with my undergraduate career has sparked this rant. I guess that's why Billy Hallowell decided to call this The Vent: With Sarah Rivette...he knew what I would end up talking about: random things that come into my head.

Well I'll leave you with this thought for right now: what do you think will happen in the future with how we get our news? Do you think that the internet will take over and that sooner than we think television, newspapers and magazines will be a thing of the past? Or do you think that the people who say all of this are just full of it and want to obsess over something that they won't even be around to see happen? Let me know what you think...post a comment, share your thoughts, speak your mind.

Question Everything.