I have always been a planner. My notes app is filled with to-do lists, reminders, and anecdotes—a tangible, terrifyingly disorganized snapshot of the inside of my brain. I came to college with a set plan—a political science major on a pre-medical track, setting myself up to go to medical school.
Journalism has the power to uncover and spread truth, but it can also create false narratives, according to Boston College journalism professor Charles Sennott.
Members of the Boston College community and the public flooded Gasson 100 to hear Russian journalist Dmitry Muratov speak on Tuesday night.
The Boston College Clough Center for the Study of Constitutional Democracy hosted a lecture and roundtable discussion exploring the current state of journalism and its relationship to democracy in the United States on Thursday night.
After a two-year pilot phase, BC’s six-course journalism minor became an official program this academic year.
In the first week of this semester, I had a perplexing conversation with one of my suitemates, in which she shared her belief that “the truth does not matter.” This seemed like a rather shocking claim to me, especially given the prolific amount of fake news in the United States right now, so I decided…
“The truth is now under attack,” said Charles Sennott, an award winning journalist and author. Right now, and forever more, we need to work a lot harder to be sure we do our jobs. We have to do better. Journalism has failed us. We have to do better.”
Though he never planned on working in journalism, that’s where Bodetti’s interest in the Middle East led him. Where that interest will take him next is unknown, but soon to be revealed come graduation in May.
The idea behind the minor was to combine a liberal arts education of Boston College with the global perspective that journalism entails.
“This is American exceptionalism in the 21st century,” Andersen said. “Our drift toward … doing our own thing, and having an altogether uncertain grip on reality has overwhelmed our other exceptional national traits and turned us into a less-developed country as well.”
