Take a Sniff at Journalism

Posted on May 25, 2015 by Silas Samayoa in Uncategorized

Silas Samayoa
Chronicle Reporter

Much like the modern day rapper, the journalist of today is a warrior poet only without the music or the rhyming. If that hasn’t convinced you into joining journalism then hold on to your heart because it is about to wane.

What goes on at the Crimson Chronicle? Minds are changed. Ideas flourish. Basically, we make you better people. So why not join us? Within the journalism team you get the privilege to investigate stories within the school community that could possibly reveal the gruesome truth as to what a fox truly says. Once you uncover that mystery you can upload it to the Los Angeles Times High School Insider page. Here different schools upload their stories along with ours. Take a whiff: http://highschool.latimes.com/ Yes, sign a few forms and you now work with the LA Times. Anything can go here. Your stories, pictures or poems will be seen by the masses. Join us.

Journalist have the unique opportunity to have press conferences with the principal as long as they schedule in advance. In journalism you get to meet important people. Our reporters have met people like Chelsea Clinton. All of this fun and journalism is an English elective! So. Yeah. That’s cool. It looks great on college applications if you are a journalist. College. You want to get there so join journalism.

You probably want to join journalism now! Well slow your role kid there’s more. At the beginning of the year we take a profile picture of you. Sort of like a mug shot of you. But with that very same picture you get a press pass. Oh yes life is completely different once you have a press pass. Want to go on the field during a football game but don’t know how? Press pass. You’re caught tardy to a class? Press pass. Don’t do that though I still have not tested if that works.

When reporting you meet new people and so you branch out. You expand your horizons. There are a ton of weird people on campus and you can expose them all as a journalist. Every day we meet during sixth period and brainstorm together.

We have some pretty shnazzy parties as well. Is that friendship and unity developed through a system in which various individuals are allowed to speak their minds and express themselves in their own unique way that I smell? Yes, yes it is. Join us. Be a journalist. It’s like joining a club but you get school credit. One of us. One of us. One of us. One of us! We really need staff.