Day One
I am at the end of a long, fruitful day. A day that started (in my mind) last night at 11pm, when I boarded a flight from Phoenix to Atlanta. This flight marked the beginning of my adventures at the Washington Journalism and Media Conference 2009. Boarding the flight, I was not free from lingering trepidation…. “Will I be smart enough?” “Will I ask pertinent questions?” Questions like these flitted about in my mind until the second hour of my five hour layover, when I was just too tired and instead started to watch Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.
Ferris is a story of young impulses, a documentary of curious fashions, and a exploitation of good, clean, fun. I was not expecting anything other than a hearty laugh, but one line caught my attention. It is when Ferris states:
“The question isn’t ‘What are we going to do?’ the question is ‘What aren’t we going to do?'”
Without getting corny, this reminds me of the overall theme of WJMC 2009 – it is a conference to help future leaders in the journalism and media fields enrich their minds, and explore new options, a way to fulfill that “What aren’t we going to do?”
