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Does your local high school have
a student newspaper? Only 1 in 8 of New York's public high schools has student
newspapers—and many of those are published just a few times a year. A few more
are online, which can leave out poorer schools.
Rebecca Dwarka, an 18-year-old
senior who works for her student paper said, "Facebook is the new way of
finding out what happened. Nobody wants to actually sit down and read a whole
article about it. This makes a 'whole article' sound a little like a long
sentence in lonely places."
I am not nostalgic(怀旧的) about high school
student newspapers and never worked for mine. I put out what was then called a
personal magazine with a group of friends because we wanted to write about
peace, war and rock 'n' roll without school officials warning us not to make
jokes about the local officials.
School newspapers are in decline(衰落) because students
now find out what happened on social networking websites. This is a little
discouraging because it proves that for millions of Americans, journalism is
becoming a do-it-yourself thing. Every citizen can be a reporter.
When something happens, we look
for social media messages. Facebook posts and Tweets have become the means by
which citizens and reporters can prove, deny, pass on stories and express
opinions without the press' challenging, researching or slowing the message.
It requires seeing something
carefully and it uses an eye for details to help prove a larger view. And even
journalism that conveys an opinion tries to be fair. If school newspapers begin
to disappear, I hope there are other ways for students to learn that.