Something,I was never fond of. . .

By Sana Batool Naqvi.

Lead,five 'Ws and H',Inverted pyramid ,newsworthiness,news values,elements of news,Byline,Date line etc.I never was aware of these words before I got admission in the Department of mass communication.Now when I read newspapers I can figure out many things in a single piece of news, can talk about them,enjoy reading it and can understand it in a much better way than before.

Two years back,newspapers for me,were just a waste of time and I always preferred watching the news on t.v rather than reading it in a printed form which sounds boring for majurity of people.

My parents kept telling me the benefits one can get by reading a newspaper and the most emphasized one by them was the 'increaes in vocablury' but they failed  to generate my interest for reading a newspaper.

But the Department I got admitted to,compelled me to do this boring job daily and became successful in it.

Now the situation is quite different.I read 2 to 3 newspapers daily and don't find this job a waste of time or anything.

I get two newspapers daily at the doorstep of my home early in the morning and it cost me a considerable amount of money that I pay by myself.When at first I had little interest in reading them,this whole process( including the money  that I give by myself out of my pocket money)compels me to take  even more interest in it..Other than those two,I read online newspapers as well.

Now the whole of my store room is dumped with newspapers .It seems as if a truck comes every month and throw piles of newspapers there.

If I am not wrong, I haven't read as much course books as newspapers since the day I got admission in this Department.

To conclude the story I would say that I am now surrounded by something that I was never fond of but at the same time this task has contributed a lot to my vocabulary and off course its helping me out in my major classes but this process needs so much effort and hard work as I have figured out that I am still very bad at writing news stories and have to put a lot of my efforts for this particular thing.

Beside this,another important task in my 'To do' list is to call a 'Raddi paper wala'(the task which is highly embarrassing according to my mom) at my place,earn some money by selling out the huge amount of newspapers and clean my store room.