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The Big Story .. .
By Alfred Balk Chrm. Journalism Careers
Com. Sigma Delta Chi
A few weeks ago, when ai auto overturned on a quie residential street in Chicago a 10-year-old girl who saw i raced indoors, snatched a bo: camera, photographed th< overturned car, and offerei the photo to a Chicago newspaper.
Next day the photo was pub lished, a check was issued t< the girl and another younj American had experienced th< thrill that only practicing jou nalists know--being paid fo reporting, in print, pictures or broadcasting, about contemporary individuals an< events of interest and import ance. As those of us who cal ourselves journalists can attest, there is no other thril like it. Bob Considine, columi ist and feature writer, put: it this way: 'I wouldn’t exchange job: with any titan or tycoon ii the land. Gathering, phrasing, and dispensing news ant ideas is the world’s mos enchanting job." Further, no task is mor< important in a democracy for without informationprompt, accurate, comprehei , sive--self-government woult perish. This is why Thomas Jefferson said: “Were it left to me to decide whether we should hav< a government without news
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