The Mission of Journalism

I think that the mission of journalism is too inform people of what's going on. It's also to entertain people with comics, and to show people that they are not the only ones with the comments and complaints that they have (Op/Ed section). Journalism's mission is also to tell people about amazing sports feats, who won and lost the big game last night, etc. Many people want to know what's going on, and I know that I always go straight to the comics part of the newspaper. My mom loves to read the parts of the newspaper where people write letters to a person for advice. My dad would read the sports section every second of every day if he could.
Journalism is there to inform people. The day after the earthquake in virginia, all of the newspaper's top headlines was about the earthquake. It told everyone where the earthquake centered, what magnitude it was, and how far away it was felt. Before the hurricane, the news station and all the newspapers were covered in facts about the hurricane. Every time something happens that people need to know about, journalism is all over it.