High Noon: Talking To Fifth-Graders

Cindy has a quandry and sez I’m not helping her work through it at all. Seems she’s going to be discussing news writing with two fifth-grade classes. She asked me via Facebook messaging what she should say to them. I responded: Tell them not to go into journalism. No satisfied with that answer, she persisted (thinking I’d give her a straight answer). So I elaborated: “OK … tell them that you’ll haunt them down like varmints if they’re silly enough to squander their college education by studying journalism.” She brushed that off and asked for help from the rest of the Merry Hucksters. So I’ll let you weigh in:

Question: What would you tell a group of fifth-graders re: news writing and/or journalism?