Promoting Democracy Speech

I have to comment on the speech we saw last week. That was the first time that I actually felt like a working journalist, and let me say, it was not easy. I felt like the entire speech was over my head, and that got me thinking...could I actually write an article on a speech I didn't understand? Then i started to realize how important it is that journalists are worldly people. They have to know a lot about everything that is going on in order to write good stories. I personally do not have great knowledge of democracy promotion in either the Middle East or Latin America. This made it very difficult to understand the detailed, wordy speeches of the professors. They discussed terms and theories so quickly, expecting that the entire audience was following them. This made me realize how important it is that I go prepared to the next speech, whether that means researching ahead of time or whatever. I found it very difficult to write about something I was confused about.