Reflection on Courthouse Visit

If I were a journalist I would not like to do court or crime reporting.  I do not think that I would like to do court or crime reporting because the overall atmosphere would not be very pleasant for most cases.  I would not enjoy sitting in a courtroom all of the time, taking notes on a murder or rape case because after hearing about such events it would start to mess with you.  I could not see anyone enjoying this type of journalism because of all the horrid and sinister things that you would be hearing about most of the time.

I do believe that it would be challenging to be objective when reporting news about a case.  In many, if not all cases, it would be difficult not to side against the person responsible for the crime.  I would find it hard only to report what happened and not my opinions because would have plenty. The people who commit many of these crimes are evil, despicable people and I would definitely want to voice my opinion on them.

Overall, I did enjoy my experience in the courtroom.  The case we listened to was very interesting and it was also interesting to find out how a court case is actually looks like in real life.  There were some parts of the bail hearing that I found were very boring and dragged out, but the case in general was engaging.  During the hearing I felt bad for the police officer being questioned because he was trying to do the best he could talking about the incident, but the lawyers were asking him questions he wasn't sure of because he wasn't given all of the facts.  Also, I didn't feel bad for the woman who committed the crime because what she did was very stupid.

While there are many professions involved with the court system, none of them really interest me.  I did for the most part enjoy the hearing, but I would not want to actually be involved with the case or any other cases.  I would not want to have to sit through that all of the time because after so long it would get extremely repetitive and I would not enjoy the stress involved with any of those professions.