WELCOME September 10, 2001 Issue

Healing and responsibilities

John Selover

It was Sunday —just after Sunday School—and I was lying on my grandparents' floor looking at the funnies. The phone rang and Grandpa went to answer. A serious grandfather came back to the family and told us that the Japanese had just bombed Pearl Harbor, and he had to go over to the paper to put out an extra. He was managing editor of the Long Beach Press-Telegram and had a world-changing story to cover.

It was a dramatic introduction to the world of journalism—a sudden jump from comics on the floor to front-page headlines.

Headlines, in whatever medium, are only the beginning of the story. News is a record of what has happened. Sometimes it foreshadows what will happen. And, sometimes news actually affects outcomes ... probably more than is realized. This places a profound responsibility on journalists—those who report and edit the news in print, radio,TV, and the Web. Along with the usual professional skills, there are other needed journalistic traits of sensitivity, discernment, honesty, compassion, unselfishness—spiritual qualities of thought that have their source in God.

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