"The Golden Voice"

There is one thing I love about reporting. I love the voice. There is something in the way the words seem so powerfully important as they press their way through my television screen, like everything that is said is so incredibly important. I have many television personalities that I could listen to for hours, Ray Martin, Tracy Grimshaw, Richard Wilkins and the beautiful Carl Stefanovic. But there is one man whose voice is so rare, so tame, so well-kept - it is with great passion that I proudly agree that Ted Williams is "The Golden Voice" of television. 

Having first seen Williams on YouTube, I was left speechless - surely such a trained 'television-voice' was not held captured by a drug addicted alcoholic homeless man, but it was. Let the next three minutes of your life be dedicated to him.

Inspirational, right? It amazes me the difference a year can make. In one year, the media transformed his life into one worth living. The media did this. Without media's impact on society, this man could quite easily be dead. This Golden Voice is what I believe to be the essence of journalism. Yes, his voice is perfect for sporting commentary, for radio, for television reporting and for advertisements (as shown in the clip), but it is also the way in which this story is told that I find to be so perfected. 

The media is often the bearer of bad news, but not in this case. This story proves that good things can happen to people in the darkest of places and that with the power of a single talent, a world can be changed. I want to bring hope. That is why I love this story and that is why I wish to be a journalist.
28.02.2012