Thursday, April 21, 2011

mcdonalds hires 50,000

          McDonalds hires 50,000 people to get unemployment rate lower. Is this a good or bad thing? On one hand I can see how it is bad that now a lot of people WANT to work at McDonald's because there are no other jobs open, at one point or another it was thought that if you worked at McDonald's you were uneducated.On the other hand it is great that they are doing this to help raise our economy \


cant concentrate do more over spring break!!!!!!!

Thursday, April 14, 2011

selfless rescue-4 year old girl saves her 12-year sister

           Four year old Edda Lilts jumps into the Jamaican Bay to save her 12-year-old sister,Edith. Edith got stuck in a ripe tide when on vacation in Jamaica she fought against the tide and all it did was make her start to drown. Her 4-year-old sister selflessly jumped off the pier and in to the bay, then proceeded to drag her to shore. Their mother stood on shore unable to process anything doe to the shock and stress of the situation. When the two girls reached shore about one hundred people crowded about trying to see if they were both okay, but a camera crew(that seemed to appear from no where) reached then first. With-in hours Edda was considered a heroine, due to the fact she jumped in after her sister and both of them were fine when they reached shore, other than the fact they were a little shaken up!

Tuesday, April 12, 2011

how can i include other peoples opinions in my writing?

            Everybody has opinions on every subject and it is difficult to get all of them, so most news reporters try to only state the facts and not put in their own opinion.No matter how hard we try though we unconsciously put in our opinions through our body language and our tone of voice, so how do we include other opinions as well? There is no one answer to this question, everyone has different way. Myself I'd talk to coworkers, friends, and family and write down all the different opinions and try to add into my report the ones most of them seem to agree on. In certain sections of the paper it is all about your own opinion like op-ed but in others like news you have pretty much absolutely no opinion in there cause all your seriously doing is reporting the facts and what they are doing to improve the situation. Either way no matter what section you write for you have to find some way to add in other peoples veiws and opinions.

Thursday, April 7, 2011

Are yearbooks journalism?

           Yes, I do believe yearbooks are journalism. I believe so because in yearboks their are the opinions known as superlatives because we say our opinion on who is what: such as best ginger or most unlikely couple. Then we also report on events but instead of using words we use pictures which sometimes describe things better than words. Then it is divided by years and events, its also all in order. First comes the events starting with the first dance and going all the way through all the years big events. After that may come club pictures and after that comes the class pictures. All this leads me to believe that yearbooks are a form of journalism.

Tuesday, April 5, 2011

how have journalistic ethics changed since we have gone online?-------COME BACK TO LATER

           Yes it has changed a lot, in ethics and other aspects of journalism. With ethics though the things are more subtle, we do not always act as indepenadantly as we used to. We check a couple sources see what they agree on and report on it. We may dig a little deeper but for the most part we touch the surface and state only the important facts like why and how instead of what and where.


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