EllenEinsporn

EllenEinsporn http://blogs.setonhill.edu/EllenEinsporn/ en-us Copyright 2007 Wed, 28 Nov 2007 11:56:21 -0500 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/ http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss It's all so magical...or is it? Good writing may seem magical, but it's not magic. Ch. 10 America's Best Newspaper Writing ]]> http://blogs.setonhill.edu/EllenEinsporn/2007/11/its_all_so_magicalor_is_it.html http://blogs.setonhill.edu/EllenEinsporn/2007/11/its_all_so_magicalor_is_it.html Wed, 28 Nov 2007 11:56:21 -0500 Ah, the Power of Quotes Git back! Gawddammit, git back! America's Best Newspaper Writing 262]]> http://blogs.setonhill.edu/EllenEinsporn/2007/11/ah_the_power_of_quotes.html http://blogs.setonhill.edu/EllenEinsporn/2007/11/ah_the_power_of_quotes.html Mon, 26 Nov 2007 12:03:05 -0500 My wonderful world of blogging wonderful blogging portfolio, a collection of all the blogs I have posted over the past couple of weeks for my news writing class. Most of these blogs are about the book we've been reading, It Ain't Necessarily So, but a few deviate. Here's what I had to say: Coverage (here's all of it together, every required entry): Live and Learn Question the Question Pleasantly Surprised Don't skip the boring stuff How many licks? Depth (here's where I was a little more analytical in my thinking while blogging): Don't skip over the boring stuff How many licks? Interaction (here's where I responded to my peers): Question the Question Discussions (here's where I created a good discussion): Question the Question Timeliness (here's where I posted my blog early): How many licks? Question the Question Xenoblogging (here's where I commented on my peers' blogs): Creating Optimism (the comment primo) The truth is out there (the comment grande) For better or for fear (the comment grande) Wildcard (here's the best exapmle of my blogging skills): Question the Question ]]> http://blogs.setonhill.edu/EllenEinsporn/2007/11/my_wonderful_world_of_blogging.html http://blogs.setonhill.edu/EllenEinsporn/2007/11/my_wonderful_world_of_blogging.html Thu, 01 Nov 2007 14:33:21 -0500 How Many Licks? IANS CH 9 & 10

How many licks does it take to get to the center of a tootsie pop? A-one, a-two, a-three...crunch ...The world may never know.

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...dramatic coverage designed to heighten fear is simply better remembered than more analytic coverage that might lower it. After all, drama is, well, more dramatic than cold-blooded analysis. (IANS 130)

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Inside each of us, reporter and newspaper reader alike, is an Alice B. Tolkas demanding to know the answer; but she very much needs to be balanced by a Gertrude Stein inquiring about the question.

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To paraphrase Oscar Wilde, to be badly briefed once may be regarded as a misfortune; to do it twice looks like carelessness.

]]> http://blogs.setonhill.edu/EllenEinsporn/2007/10/live_and_learn.html http://blogs.setonhill.edu/EllenEinsporn/2007/10/live_and_learn.html Fri, 19 Oct 2007 09:33:55 -0500 Too True Media Commentary While the clips from the Onion and Saturday Night Live we watched in class were funny, they also pointed out some dissappointing truths about tv news. In The Onion's Something Happening in Haiti broadcast, the news reporter explains what is happening in Haiti based on another reporter's live reports. However, neither reporter seems to know exactly what is going on. Possible predictions range from an election, to a riot, to a coup, to a picnic. While this situation is obviously humorously exaggerated, I've often felt extremely confused about what's really happening during a live tv broadcast. Sometimes, the news is so fresh that the reporters don't seem to know exactly what is going on and, instead of being able to give a true account of the event, they resort to giving several possibilities of what may be happening. When this happens, I always ask myself "What's the point?" Saturday Night Live also exaggerates a slightly frustrating aspect of tv news in a parody of Wolf Blitzer. Throughout the reporter's newscast, the newsfeed runs along the bottom of the screen with ridiculous statements such as "Ugh. This Iraq stuff is sooooooo boring!" and a desire for "More Anna! Anna! Anna! Anna! Anna!..." (Anna Nicole Smith). Actually this desire is sad but true. Most people would rather watch Anna Nicole Smith than an update on the war in Iraq. No offense to those who watch tv news, but I think I'll stick to reading the paper.]]> http://blogs.setonhill.edu/EllenEinsporn/2007/10/too_true.html http://blogs.setonhill.edu/EllenEinsporn/2007/10/too_true.html Fri, 12 Oct 2007 11:48:40 -0500 Good to Know Ch. 5 Covering Crime

The reporter who stands apart from the mob stands out. Dickerson suggests stashing the notebook and the briefcase, and handing the subject a business card with a note written on the back.

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HARTFORD, Conn.--Hello, tree. There is good news and there is bad news for you today.

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The child...veered into the sports-utility vehicle, which was traveling north at about 20 mph, Thibodeau said. The driver attempted to veer left, but struck the boy and ran over his bicycle. (Gomez)

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…humans oddly realize their limited finitude, and by the very fact that they do, transcend it in awareness of some further being of potential infinity (Cappon 2).

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Writing is the art of second thought. (Cappon 5)

This is exactly what I need to work on. I admit it; I am a hard core procrastinator. I couldn't tell you how many papers I've written at two in the morning and then turned in within the next couple of hours. At best, these papers get one read through and a simple spell check. Well, according to Cappon's statement in The AP Guide to News Writing, I should not do this. Every time I turn in a paper I have just written the night before, I am turning in my first thoughts. I should write my papers in advance so that I have the night (or, if I'm really ambitious, a few nights) before to revise what I've already written. That way I'll be turning in a much paper full of second thoughts (and maybe even third thoughts). ]]> http://blogs.setonhill.edu/EllenEinsporn/2007/09/thinkrethinkrethink.html http://blogs.setonhill.edu/EllenEinsporn/2007/09/thinkrethinkrethink.html Tue, 18 Sep 2007 22:31:32 -0500 Portfolio #3 Portfolio 3 -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study) ]]> http://blogs.setonhill.edu/EllenEinsporn/2007/05/portfolio_3.html http://blogs.setonhill.edu/EllenEinsporn/2007/05/portfolio_3.html Mon, 07 May 2007 15:24:53 -0500