#1// It's Truth

Wednesday, September 11^th Class

As an active member of the Church of Latter-Day Saints, I have grown up believing that my Savior is the center of all things. But upon deciding on a Journalism major… I thought I was entering into an entirely materialistic and world-driven profession. I mean, it’s the news. It’s the gossip, the source-of-all-knowledge to the world and its people. Don’t get me wrong, I love the gossip and I love the talking and I love the scandalous stories. More than just about anything. But after studying the Constitutional principle in the Six C’s of Journalism the connection between Freedom of Press and Freedom to Worship became clear. My connection to my Heavenly Father and my religious beliefs really was connected to the over-exaggerators on every other news station. Beginning in the Enlightenment and finalizing in Smith’s pursuit to restore this Gospel, the press and the Lord were hand-in-hand. And although there are few top-ranked, religion-based national, newspapers or magazines, all journalists are leading to one thing… and that is “The Pursuit of Truth”. I don’t know how to connect this idea to any certain article or any outside idea, because it’s the idea that centers around all things… it’s truth. And it is what every human being, religious or not, should be striving for. It is what binds journalists to the Descriptive World.

“I defie the Pope and all his laws. If God spare my life, ere many yeares I wyl cause a boy that driveth the plough to know more of the Scripture, than he doust.”  - William Tyndale