There is a terrific disadvantage in not having the abrasive quality of the press applied to you daily. Even though we never like it, and even though we wish they didn't write it, and even though we disapprove, there isn't any doubt that we could not do the job at all in a free society without a very, very active press.
I am a senior mass communications major at Bloomsburg University, as well as the co-creator and an editor-in-chief for BU's first student-generated online news source, BU Now (http://bunow.bloomu.edu). I am the copy and administrative assistant at "Runner's Gazette" for which my responsibilities include writing and editing, as well as secretarial maintenance. Over the past four years, I have had material published in BU Now, "Runner's Gazette," the Williamsport "Sun-Gazette," the Milton "Standard Journal," BU's campus newspaper "The Voice," and my own personal running-themed blog, "Calluses."