A Level Subject Choices

We just recently had careers people come in and talk to us about what careers we'd like to go into. I want to be a journalist when I've completed school and I wanted to take for my A levels English Lit, Spanish, RS and Geography because I thought English Lit for journalism is obviously good, a langauge is good and RS and Geography would give me a wider knowledge of the world, people and economics.

However, my career interviewer advised me to take English Lang, Spanish, History and Politics & Government. The thing is, I didn't take History for GCSE and I'm not sure how good I would be at it and I don't want to sacrifice my grades. Politics is closely related to History. I didn't want to take English Lang because I thought it was a lot more about why language is used, etc rather than writing and is less respected than Lit as you can't do degrees in Lang-only in the top Unis like Oxbridge, etc. He told me I was wrong though. What is the truth? Which subjects would I be better off taking? Should I listen to him?

If it helps, I'm predicted A*s in all my subjects. And you can't do a combined Lit & Lang course at my school.

We just recently had careers people come in and talk to us about what careers we'd like to go into. I want to be a journalist when I've completed school and I wanted to take for my A levels English Lit, Spanish, RS and Geography because I thought English Lit for journalism is obviously good, a langauge is good and RS and Geography would give me a wider knowledge of the world, people and economics.

However, my career interviewer advised me to take English Lang, Spanish, History and Politics & Government. The thing is, I didn't take History for GCSE and I'm not sure how good I would be at it and I don't want to sacrifice my grades. Politics is closely related to History. I didn't want to take English Lang because I thought it was a lot more about why language is used, etc rather than writing and is less respected than Lit as you can't do degrees in Lang-only in the top Unis like Oxbridge, etc. He told me I was wrong though. What is the truth? Which subjects would I be better off taking? Should I listen to him?

If it helps, I'm predicted A*s in all my subjects. And you can't do a combined Lit & Lang course at my school.

They are usually planks to be honest like the person above said.
Take what you enjoy, i'd recommend english lit over lang it is respected and more enjoyable especially if you like reading like i assume you do!
RS I loved at As level i would really recommend it. Maybe take history instead of geog i personally think it is better, but do what you can do best in.
Definitely take spanish it will look really good.

Seriously, for journalism there isnt really any right or wrong subjects,take what you want as long as you have english.

But would I be able to cope with History in A level as I didn't take it for GCSE? It was one of my worst subjects - in fact, it was the worst apart from sport - and that's why I dropped it.
I may be better now, now that I have a better understanding for essay writing. Do you think it would be okay to take if you were never really that good? (By that I mean achieving A/Bs instead of A*s in Year 9).