Take a second and look back with me. Recall our nation's most significant events. Recall events like the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, World War One, World War Two, the Vietnam War, 9/11, Columbine, the Boston Bombing...

Through each of these significant events, one group of people stuck around through even the worst of it just to make sure that the American Citizens were just as informed as anyone else. They triumphed through every opinion, every discouraging word, and every negative reaction.

These people were the journalists.

Journalism isn't an easy field. You're basically signing up for a career where people will question your factual evidence and motives for the rest of your life. But, it wasn't always that way.

Many years ago, journalism was a very respected field. People trusted journalists to bring about the truth and to not have any bias surrounding it. Somewhere in between it all, the motives of news media outlets turned in a new direction and entertainment became more important.

Walter Cronkite once said, "The democratic system is challenged by the failure in television because our evening news programmes have gone for an attempt to entertain as much as to inform in the desperate fight for ratings."

There have been few and far between journalists who still see the field for what it once used to be, but those few just seem to come every once in a lifetime.

I'm a journalism major and I'll happily admit it. Journalism runs in my blood and I couldn't ever see myself doing anything else. But looking at what journalism is today rather than before makes me discouraged as for what I'm about to set foot into.

Biased news media is everywhere.

For example, Fox News is biased towards the Republican Party and CNN is biased towards the Democratic Party. These are media outlets that call themselves "news." My question is... how can you call yourself "news" if you're reporting things in favor of one thing rather than another and adding your opinion into the mix of it all?

It's simple elementary school learning. In the dictionary, "fact" is a truth known by actual experience or observation and "opinion" is a personal view, attitude, or appraisal.

If I wanted to know your opinion, I would read the opinion column in the newspaper. When I watch the news, I think it should be expected of you to deliver the truth and nothing but the truth, regardless of your opinion.

I do have nothing but respect for those who also have the same mentality and strength as myself to enter into such a risky field.

I think it's about time that the next set of journalists turn the field back into what it once was before rather than jump into the trap others have set for biased media outlets.

I don't want to be another journalist who disappoints the greats that have come before me. I want to make my mark like those past icons. And nothing can stop me.