Sounds Like Selena
By Selena Ganguly
By Selena Ganguly
Finding out I was going to be the features editor for the Pony Express this year was one of the biggest achievements in my life as a writer. I love amplifying student’s voices on campus, which is why Features is the perfect section for me. However, this position has made me really reconsider what it means to be a journalist.
Over the summer during the height of protests for the Black Lives Matter movement, there were several journalists who were silenced by authority. The one that caught my attention immediately being CNN reporter Omar Jimenez. Even though Jimenez, a person of color, showed his credentials and was respectful towards the officers, he still was arrested.
As a person of color myself, I wholeheartedly believe it is important to bring up voices that need to be heard and are suffering from injustices, and it is frightening to see our voices being silenced. We make a point of saying that the First Amendment will protect us, yet ironically, it means nothing at all.
Of course, authorities won’t tell the press everything, but it has come to the point that interfering with the press goes to the extreme and prevents the oppressed from unleashing their voices for the world to hear.
With this in mind, I hope that with my position and this section, I can help express who Pioneer is as a community by uplifting each other’s voices in our campus, and make sure that no voice goes unheard, no matter what it fights for and beliefs it holds from here on out.
Over the summer during the height of protests for the Black Lives Matter movement, there were several journalists who were silenced by authority. The one that caught my attention immediately being CNN reporter Omar Jimenez. Even though Jimenez, a person of color, showed his credentials and was respectful towards the officers, he still was arrested.
As a person of color myself, I wholeheartedly believe it is important to bring up voices that need to be heard and are suffering from injustices, and it is frightening to see our voices being silenced. We make a point of saying that the First Amendment will protect us, yet ironically, it means nothing at all.
Of course, authorities won’t tell the press everything, but it has come to the point that interfering with the press goes to the extreme and prevents the oppressed from unleashing their voices for the world to hear.
With this in mind, I hope that with my position and this section, I can help express who Pioneer is as a community by uplifting each other’s voices in our campus, and make sure that no voice goes unheard, no matter what it fights for and beliefs it holds from here on out.