The important role of journalists Every morning, when I get up, the first thing I do is turn on the TV, but not for cartoons or MTV. It has become a habit for me to watch the news in the morning. I feel the need to know what is happening because I know that no matter where the news happens, 99% of the time it will directly or indirectly affect me or the people I care about. The media have become part of my life and the lives of almost everyone in the Western world. We may not know the names of our senators, but Katie Couric or Tom Brokaw are household names in every American household. Not many of us realize, however, that the journalist's job is not as glorious as we imagine. This article will give you a closer look at what happens behind the television screen or radio microphone. Like all other discourse communities, journalists have their own jargon. It mainly consists of technical terms that describe different aspects of news production. In radio there are voice actors, readers, questions and answers and packages - all these are types of stories. Voicer is a news item voiced by a journalist; the reader is a news script read by a news anchor; Q&A is an interview; and the package is a news story produced and read by a journalist that also includes parts of interviews or natural sounds. A peculiar feature of a journalist's jargon is that very often there are a couple of different terms for one concept. For example, other words for "package" are "wrapper" and "feature"; “cut,” “bite” (or “bite”), and “topical” all refer to a portion of an interview. But in most cases, the jargon of journalists is much more understandable to an outsider than, for example, the specialized language of chemists. The goal of recovery... in the middle of the paper... stupidity damages press credibility, says ABC's Cokie Roberts." FreedomForum Online News. http://www.freedomforum.org/freedomforum/news/971003ca. html(October 9, 1997).Germer, Fawn. "How Do You Feel?" American Journalism Review June 1995: 36-42.Kemkes, Michelle "'If it bleeds, it leads' is not the motto of KVUE-TV Minnesota News." CouncilNewsletter, Summer 1996. http://www.mtn.org/newscouncil/Summer96/KVUE.html (October 9, 1997). Rather, Dan. “Journalism and the Public Trust.” November/December 1990 . Scanlan, Frank. October 10, 1997. Shaw, David “Beyond Skepticism: A Negative Turn on the News.” 5th ed. Englewood: Morton Publishing what the journalists tell you?" 1997: 4-6.