It’s the start of a new academic year and personally I’ve had the best start in a while! I’ve begun studying Journalism as part of an undergraduate BA Hons degree at Sheffield Hallam University and I finally managed to pass my driving test after waiting since January of this year to take it for the second time. After deciding it would be a great experience to move out in my first year, I have since met amazing friends and people off my course, some of which I am sure will be friends for life!
Unlike many I have spoken to in halls, I feel I am lucky to have always known which career path I have wanted to take. I started watching BBC news and ITV’s Calendar at around the age of 10, I knew I wanted to be the next Susanna Reid, although many people at the age of 10 may suggest watching the news is boring, I found it fascinating and a way of educating myself in a way parents or school never could. The reason I believe this is, the news has no age rating or in some cases no particular audience, the news is readily available and ready for you to interpret it how you wish, of course the news is not always exposing a bright and optimistic side of society, sometimes it shows the dark and pessimistic sides, but I suppose that was the realism I loved, part of growing up is understanding that life isn’t as great as you may think it is. And watching the news showed me that that isn’t always a bad thing as it teaches you what life is really like and allows you to become less vulnerable as you are aware of the dangers of society. Some may suggest this runs the risk of desensitising children to serious issues, however I believe it helped me grow up and I can’t wait to become a journalist!
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In July this year the artist and rapper Michael Omari better known as Stormzy made political waves thanks to New Labour MP, Sarah Jones, who is herself from Stormzy’s hometown of Croydon Central.
Jones was urging fellow MPs in the House of Commons to make sure new and young voters in the recent general election would not be let down. She criticises her opposition by emphasising ‘If the election has taught us anything, it’s that we cannot take anyone for granted. As Croydon’s Stormzy put so well in one of his songs: “You’re never too big for the boot”.’ Stormzy made his parliamentary debut on the 12th of July however it still has people talking now. This quote raised laughs amongst Jones’ fellow constituencies however she refused to undermine her message by following “[we must] make a difference in their [voters] lives”. Stormzy rose to fame on Youtube and he was the first unsigned rapper to appear on Later with Jools Holland, he has won countless awards but stays humble in interviews by always talking about his mum. He won at the MOBO Awards in 2014 and 2015, he was also nominated for a brit in early 2017 and won a BET Award this year. Stormzy is also an online presence and icon as he has showed his fans many times on snapchat and twitter what kind of humour he enjoys what his interests on are on certain issues. He even once tweeted himself about politics by asking his fans “How many retweets do I need to become Prime minister?” He has even been known to publicly expose racist trolls on line tweeting “If you think I became a musician to tolerate people chucking out racist remarks you’ve lost your mind”. He influenced others to recognise the stereotypes attached to rappers that aren’t true and is now influencing politics |
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