"Journalism is the first rough draft of history."
I really like this quote, especially as I am an history student. I think that in many ways this quote is very true. History relies on a lot of primary sources, so in this way, journalism can be a direct rough draft of history. Things like reports in newspapers or similar are a good way to sample what and how people of a certain time were thinking or feeling.Regardless of bias, they are good source to get an idea of the situation of the time.
Plus if they are reporting on big events then it really is a rough draft of something that an historian will one day be writing about in some sort of text book. He would just be rewriting and elaborating on what the journalist has written.
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