Define yourself

Journalists have been described as various things. Some believe that they are ethnographic researchers, meaning they observe everyday ordinary people and extract stories from just immersing themselves into the situations surrounding them. Others call them watchdogs, people who are always on the look out for wrong doing so that they can report fraudulent politicians, corporate world leaders and celebrities.

I believe journalists are intellectual researchers, informers, courageous communicators and participants in everyday life situations. They report news through different media: radio, newspapers, television, blogs, books and many more avenues to the masses. They keep us updated and informed which helps a lot of us to make well informed decisions. Journalists are creative in every sense of the word; they can tell timeless stories, like human interest stories on past heroes and make the stories applicable in our current lives. Journalists bring the stories they report on to life, one gets the feeling of the immediacy of a hard news story. They are entertaining and most of all they seek and bring about change.

However one cannot assume that all journalists are good Samaritans across the world. There are some journalists who just run with stories to make money. Others do not care how unethical it is to hurt people in order to get what they want, other journalists lie about stories or contacts and still get away with it. Some journalists lack passion and a drive for the good of the people. Others use their writing abilities and journalistic freedom to attack people on a personal level and the list goes on. The fact of the matter is journalism like any other career has its positive and negative connotations. The question is what do we do as journalists of tomorrow to avoid the clichés and inhumanity while striving for objectivity and all rounded reporting?

I aspire to be a tenacious reporter, who will go further than the average man. I want to write stories not for the sake of putting a good English breakfast on my table every morning, but to change people’s ways of thinking, to question conventions and to bring about a sense of humanity and goodness. Battle of the sexez is platform for ideas to be communicated, for opinions to form and debates to take place about the issue of gender. A lot of the time people believe that they can define who or what the next person is by just pure artificial judgement. This blog will give homosexuals, transgender, hermaphrodites, heterosexuals and many more people all across the world to discuss their experiences, hardships and how they have been categorised as something that they are not in society. This is a chance to do define yourself, go for it!