This semester, Ms.Turner taught us how dangerous journalism is. She showed us a lot of people who risked their lives just to report. For example, Daniel Pearl was a journalist for the Wall Street Journal. He wrote about iranian pop music. He was kidnapped by a group that called themselves National Movement for the Restoration of Pakistani Sovereignty and he was eventually beheaded. There is a movie based on the book his wife wrote, A Mighty Heart. Lasantha Wickramatunga was a journalist who was assassinated in January 2009. He was anti-government. He wrote his own obituary and declared "When finally I am killed, it will be the government that kills me." CPJ (committee to protect journalists) protects journalists worldwide and raises awareness since 1981. I think journalism is a great job if you dont put yourself in danger. You are informing people, but sometimes the things that people need to hear about most are the same things that can get you in danger because you wrote about it.
