Media Ambitions

So I am in this Cluster Course that I am really enjoying. I personally like it because it combines my major and minor ( Broadcasting Major with a Marketing Minor). Plus, it is two very interesting classes. The Cluster consists of a Communications Law class and a Communications Ethics course. Now, you make stop and think how can those be so interesting? Well, from a broadcasting perspective it's hard to write or talk on air when there are so many boundaries that you have to be careful not cross. Granted, the media is all about pushing the limits, but when you have all kinda of information at your finger tips how are going to decide what is relavant to the audience and what is too much. You have to understand the law and ethics of communications to provide the best stories to the audience. For example, Heath Ledger's death blew up the radio waves and made the T.V.s Blaze. Everyone wants the big story and to be the one with the "story first" ... I am all for that, but make sure that the information you are putting out is correct without assumptions. I am a big advocate of not jumping to conclusions. Not to say that they were but if they were they presented it like it. There weere so many stories and i know that is the way it is for most celebrity deaths but still there still needs to be some class to the media. Am I wrong? For the most part I think the media does a decent job of keeping the information correct but in the case of Heath Ledger i think that everyone just jumped to conclusions. Was it suicide or just an accidental overdose... so many questions and not enough real answers. In the end it just confuses people. In my mind, the job of the media is to give correct, real, and entertaining information. Journalists dothis pretty well... sometimes thye just get ahwad of themselves I guess. I would like to think of myself as an ethical journalist. I would like to think also, that i don't give people information unless it is the truth. With the classes i am taking it is making me so much more aware of what the audience has to go through. When they hear all the jumble of information and its hard to decide what truth and what are lies or assumptions. Until college I had always just gone through the motions when it came to what the media had to say. I took the informationa and never questioned, but never actually took too much too heart either. Now with more awareness i feel like i am a better at broadcasting and much better at being an audience.