Journalism can be taking the wrong train or missing your bus. It puts you in a place you shouldn't have been at exactly the right moment. Journalists are people who make a profit at making mistakes. Journalism could be your first step on the road to politics. But as a journalist how can we report on the sex-life of a women politician more than her policies? How can a man of  similar crimes be allowed to run for mayor after little talk of his scandal?

"[...] a woman who works her way through law school as a stripper would have a tough time being elected to the United States Senate but a man who visited strip clubs while in law school would not find that to be an obstacle to the White House." 

-Keli Goff, Could a former stripper be elected president?, The Washington Post

What has happened in the past will have an effect on who we are that will affect what we become.