I have learnt I am a very honest, decisive and opinionated writer; this may work for or against my future as a journalist. These three habits have filtered into my writing style from the work of my favourite two authors; Chuck Klosterman and Tom Wolfe. Being very opinionated is most probably the riskiest of the three; this may distort my first impression of a subject that may alter the way I report the story and this will affect the readers or viewers that are wanting to hear the actual, unbiased facts. But in the case of readers whom may be wanting to hear my opinion of the subject it will be favourable to be opinionated. but this relies on whether my opinion is worth while hearing.
The main reasons I wanted to study journalism was to be a music critic firstly and secondly, on the other side of the scale an environmental photojournalist. The reason for the first being that I like to think I have a very good taste in music and secondly there is no place I would rather be spending my free time than outdoors, in the bush.
Even though the work layout for this year has not dealt with major interests of mine and at some stages sent me running in the other direction this has not detoured my choice of carrying on with the subject.
By Sean "Manbearpig" Thackeray
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