Coverage: These entries are all of the assignments Iv'e had since my last portfolio

Murder I Read

I'm no Super Robot!

Wait I take it Back!

Our Best Practices

Local reporting and Beats Classic

You don't have to speak to have a voice

Depth: Entires in which I may have gotton carried away...

I'm no Super Robot!

Wait I take it Back!

Interaction: I have things to say about my peer's blogs

You don't have to speak to have a voice

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/VanessaKolberg/022224.html

 http://blogs.setonhill.edu/BethanyMerryman/2007/11/the_journalist_monsters_prey_o.html

  http://blogs.setonhill.edu/DaniellaChoynowski/2007/11/not_breaking_but_still_interes.html

 http://blogs.setonhill.edu/BethanyMerryman/2007/11/alas_the_antidote_of_dull_writ.html

Discussions: Here at SHU, we like to talk a little

You don't have to speak to have a voice

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/BethanyMerryman/2007/11/alas_the_antidote_of_dull_writ.html

Timeliness: These entires were created on time so my peer's could respond and I could disscuss the entry in class

Murder I Read

I'm no Super Robot!

Wait I take it Back!

Our Best Practices

Local reporting and Beats Classic

You don't have to speak to have a voice

Comments: More comments I have made on other's blogs

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/VanessaKolberg/022224.html

 http://blogs.setonhill.edu/BethanyMerryman/2007/11/the_journalist_monsters_prey_o.html

  http://blogs.setonhill.edu/DaniellaChoynowski/2007/11/not_breaking_but_still_interes.html

 http://blogs.setonhill.edu/BethanyMerryman/2007/11/alas_the_antidote_of_dull_writ.html

In Fact, hearing is what most journalists do and voice is described as an illusion in writing. You have a voice when you write, especially for journalists who sometimes write on big issues to the public. It's not like speech, but closer to speech than most other types of writing. "When eyewitnesses, especially everyday people are given their voices in print, the effect can be powerful, moving, puzzling, funny, or outrageous."

Quotes can enhance the drama or sharpen a point and not just quotes, but good journalism's voice can be powerful just in the way the details and the words are arranged.  

In Best Practices, It explains how some people like to take their quotes back after realizing it might hurt them or a company that could cause them to be fired. This is just like asking to fix mistakes that the paper prints and should not be a problem if they don't want their quote in the paper anymore. But this doen't mean you should just change it to make them look better. Pete Carey says, "If i'm quoting someone, I want them to pick up th paper in the morning and say, "yeah, that is exactly how I feel about it."" This means you need to be carefull what quotes you put in a paper, not just any will do. You need to make sure that the quote will not bias anything and will not insult the person being quoted(even if that is what they said)

Of course we all can't hold all informaition on every subject, and maybe sometimes we don't feel like learning molecular biology over night to write a story on it. There are other ways to write about things you don't know much about. I write about topics that I'm not completly 100% sure on sometimes, but mostly i liek to stay clear of that. If I have ot write something, I usually do the research before hand so I don't make any mistakes.

But, "when reporters and their editors have a limited grasp of the topic, the story they produce is likely to be unfair."

These and other fair topics are found in our Best Practices assignment.

Coverage: These entries are all of the assignments Iv'e had since my last portfolio

-It ain't good to use ain't

-If you can't say something true, don't say nothing at all

-Where's the presidents Saxaphone?

-Well Well, so that's what you think huh?

-For better or for Fear

-CONFLICT OF INTEREST PEOPLE!!

-The End

Depth: Entires in which I may have gotton carried away...

-Well Well, so that's what you think huh?

-For better or for Fear

-If you can't say something true, don't say nothing at all

Interaction: I have things to say about my peer's blogs

-Jeremy Barrick

-Jacquelyn Johns

-Chelsea Oliver

Discussions: Aww, people like to comment on my awsome ideas!

-Well Well, so that's what you think huh?

-If you can't say something true, don't say nothing at all

-For better or for Fear

-It ain't good to use ain't

Timeliness: These entires were created on time so my peer's could respond and I could disscuss the entry in class

-It ain't good to use ain't

-If you can't say something true, don't say nothing at all

-Where's the presidents Saxaphone?

-Well Well, so that's what you think huh?

-For better or for Fear

Comments: More comments I have made on other's blogs

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/mt/mt-comments.cgi?entry_id=21890

 http://blogs.setonhill.edu/JeremyBarrick/2007/10/it_aint_necessarily_so_el227_c.html

 http://blogs.setonhill.edu/JeremyBarrick/2007/10/ians_ch_2_4_el227_how_media_ch.html

 http://blogs.setonhill.edu/JacquelynJohns/2007/10/were_still_being_duped.html

 http://blogs.setonhill.edu/ChelseaOliver/2007/10/i_like_making_lists.html#comments

 http://blogs.setonhill.edu/VanessaKolberg/022010.html

 http://blogs.setonhill.edu/BethanyMerryman/2007/10/the_good_and_the_bad.html

 Wildcard: Get ready for my awsomely random blogging!!

OHH save yourself some pain!!

This is a sweet pumpkin!

"CLAIMS THE SOUND TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE, HEADLINES THAT PROMISE A QUICK FIX, DIRE WARNINGS OF DANGER ABOUT A SINGLE PRODUCT OR REGIMEN, SIMPLISTIC CONCLUSIONS DRAWN FROM A COMPLEX STUDY," and "ADVICE BASED ON STUDIES PUBLISHED WITHOUT PEER REVIEW!"(148)

Yep, it is ironic when the researchers own stock in the company manufacturing the vaccine they developed. Financial and ideological motives in news writing are a NO. Conflict of intrest, it sends off a big red flag. Our job is not to get publicity for thigs we like or are involved in; if we wanted that maybe we would be salesmen or public speakers. Just deliver the important, non-biased information and get on with it already.

Chapter 10:

I you keep following the dark, dreary road you might not find bambie's meadow; maybe you should have explored the other alternatives...yeah, let's stop ignoring the things we don't like because everyone deserves to know the whole truth. Let's not bird pick it; explore every possible outcome, explanation and path. It gets redundant when everyone keeps talking about the same thing. 

So for 7, it seems as though spreading fear among the people is actually what the people want. Though we all suspected that anyway right. It makes sense the something really important that threatens your life will get your attention. That's why there was so much fuss about breast cancer and smoking. And this takes us back to statistics. Anyone can make a statistic work; and by work I mean you can make it support whatever side of the story your writing about.(hopefully that's not the case since as journalists we aim to be non-biased) But without the hated word drama, what would be exciting and catching about news anymore? "Breaking News! bunny's are even cuter than ever!!" or would you rather hear about, "Breaking News! Mutant rabbits terrorize your neighborhood!"  This quote from chapter 7 really says it; "..the risk free society is an impossibility: all we can do is choose---one hopes intelligently--among the variety of possible risks that confront us."(pg 128)

If you don't report something i guess it can't be used in the statistic. In chapter 8 we explore how some cases may say, for instance, that the number of reported child abuse cases are going up, but that doesn't necessarily mean that there are more abused children; It might just mean there are more being reported. Maybe people were being quiet about it before, but now they want to talk. In some cases, such as for disease, reports may increase not because there are more cases, but because the technology to locate it are more accurate and advanced. And not all Americans know to take things with a grain of salt. In fact, most Americans rely on and trust the news to deliver them with accurate information, which is the way it should be.... 

How do you go about doing something so detailed? Well, Happy Halloween anyway^__^

For the original website, click on the pumkin:)

Chapter 5 says how there are two sides to everything, such as minority application rejection being twice as high may be right, but so it is approved eight-nights as often too. They are both right, it's just which you decide to write about, or what gets written about more often. For as much as I’ve seen, the news usually writes about negatives first, like smoking, and what foods are bad for you before they tell you good scientific research they're doing to solve illnesses.

Chapter 6:

Do you like how the school curriculum is these days? "Yes I do" Do you like the way the school curriculum is these days? "No, I don't" but you just said you did......

Yes, sometimes we can't make up our minds. That’s why I don't think poll are very effective. Poll results can be affected by too many a number of things like area, community values, ect. If you take a poll you should have to travel around the Us to get all different kinds of opinions from different people, but if our poll depends on something in your area, the results should be valid. But that doesn't mean people can't change their minds whenever they feel like it....

I do know that now I am even more excited about the new Art/theatre Building, and I never expected there might be plans for more buuildings.(so that intrigued me a bit) None the less, I think that was a great way for us to get a little experience on what a press conference is like(personally i've only seen one on Tv and they looked a little frazzling(for all you that have no idea what frazzling means, it means nerve-wracking(so why not say that instead?(because it's more fun the other way:)

Intresting enough to see how badly things go when you rely on statistics that aren't accurate. I especially love how people do that everyday, even Ido sometimes. I remember discussing this in class as well, that some news stories will get more attention than what they deserve. Why is it that we pay more attention to something if it has scientific statistics? And sometimes findings get more attention if their significance is stressed, and pertains to you. These aren't the right ways to get attention in news writing, but they are a way that many take.

Chapter 3:

 How many things can you classify as rape? How about abuse of any kind, because there are many different kinds.(do you know how many?) What do you call a chicken thats crossed with a spoon? What's your interpretation of the musical Cats? Yeah, there are too many answers to all these questions, but here's another; How do you decide what answer to use for a statistic that you want to release to the public, like a news story? Yeah, that's a tough one also isn't it. I think i'll leave the statistics up to true professionals; mabey just to be safe i'll leave them out all together (like surveys)...but you just can't do that all the time. News is too demanding, and so is the public...

Chapter 4:

Poxies anyone? here you go; How do you measure life? What the meaning of life? What is hunger and poverty? How do you measure all of these things? Everything is debatable, so it's difficult to measure these things, especially since different people have different perspectives on them.