The Blogger thats ME!

Athe Mahomana
JMS 1- Blog Assignment 1
Tutor: Lindsay Callaghan
450 words

Greetings. I am Athe Mahomana one fourth of The Shouting Rats. This is my first blogging experience. I believe it will grow me and expose me to a different
kind of journalistic experience. It will expose me to a different mediated experience with journalism. As a group and as individuals we aim to achieve our
utmost best with blogging and putting the journalistic skills we have acquired to great use. Our blog our posts will deal with the issues that we young and
upcoming journalists are experiencing everyday.

We mentioned in our blog planner that we will draw from blogs like that of Bob Stepno, who says that journalists today have to adapt to the ever-changing
technological world that we live in. He deals with this issue by providing us with a list of what he thinks is the best way journalists today can produce
quality journalism as well as making use of the technology available to us. The Shouting Rats will mirror this and tweak it to suit our target audience and
help them become better journalists.

Who am I? I am someone who has great passion for music but more especially house/dance music, it is evident in my speech. It forms a major part of my life.
I also have great interest in Dramatic Arts – it really fascinates me and I want to see myself doing physical theatre (which is part or drama) in the near
future. As a black South African I find it difficult to express my political views freely, without being judged and looked down upon as an outcast by my
fellow black people. I am pro Democratic Alliance and very anti-ANC. But as this is my blog and I have the liberty to exercise freedom of speech I will use
this platform to my advantage. You will find that my blog posts might be influenced greatly by the music I listen to and by my political views, but I will
try to link these with journalism.

This brings me to say that journalism is an important factor in everyone’s lives. It is important because it keeps us informed about the current affairs that
affect us daily. So this is why on our blog we will provide you with accurate and truthful journalism. We are exposed too much to sensationalist news;
because unfortunately some media companies have succumbed to the wrath of capitalism. Being a journalism student is an experience different to what I expected. I am disappointed to a certain extent because of the little freedom we have had to
express our views in the journalism class. Although being in this class has shed light in a positive in the way I see journalism.