Stuff That I Write About Things http://blogs.setonhill.edu/MichaelPoiarkoff/ en Copyright 2009 Mon, 21 Sep 2009 09:41:39 -0500 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=4.23-en http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Ingestion of expired banana pudding causes rapidly escalating liberalism in children under seven The manual staes that one of the main jobs of a reporter is to “ counteract rumour.” This is a huge aspect of being a reporter that i feel is often overlooked. Most of the time, the news is looked at as a horror movie of sorts, scaring families with exaggerated tales of violence and causing mothers worry about every passtime their child has. however, the minds of the masses can do more with an alleged murder than any reporter could ever dream of. Think of the elaboration on certain happenings just amoung this campus, and then think of the consequences when fraudulnt information is spread throughout an entire community, or even city. Stories, especially those with potentially threatening information, can spread rather quick through the grapevine, and if a legitamate news source doesn't have the actual facts to prove the public wrong, a rumour can wreak havoc on the minds of a community. A lot of the time, the facts are what scares us the most. But occassionally, when a rumour gets taken just a tad too far, we may actually find little bit of solace in the news.

]]> http://blogs.setonhill.edu/MichaelPoiarkoff/2009/09/ingestion_of_expired_banana_pu.html http://blogs.setonhill.edu/MichaelPoiarkoff/2009/09/ingestion_of_expired_banana_pu.html Mon, 21 Sep 2009 09:41:39 -0500 trifold shutters In Chapter four, Cappon basically reinforces the number one pain of newswriting, saying that "Sentences come under special strains in news writing. A lot of facts have to be squeezed into a tight space..." This is absolutely true, and for myself, one of the most frustrating things about creating a legitimate news story. When you're given a maximum amount of space to work with, the facts come first, and the elaboration. It's not easy for a creative writer to arrange facts in the most straight-forward way. With a limited space and an abundance of facts to present to the reader, the news writer is left with almost no room to make the style of the story unique and interesting. Facts are coming first, and adjective's are suffering for it.

]]> http://blogs.setonhill.edu/MichaelPoiarkoff/2009/09/trifold_shutters.html http://blogs.setonhill.edu/MichaelPoiarkoff/2009/09/trifold_shutters.html Fri, 18 Sep 2009 10:32:12 -0500 Automobile Accident and Suspected Theft Sharon Pierce, a fourth year undergraduate student attending Elizabeth Mount College , was struck by a 2004 Ford Taurus, while walking 15 feet north of the crosswalk, leaving her residence of Collins Hall at 8:25 a.m. on Sept. 14.
The driver of the vehicle, Carl Klaushammer, had just picked up a package from the EMC chemistry department and was turning around the east entrance of the Alumni Hall Gallery when Pierce was hit. A first hand witness to the incident, Chief of EMC Security, Robert Chase, reported that a package was taken from the backseat of Klaushammer’s car while he exited the vehicle to check on Pierce.
One of the officers at the scene reported having seen a man running south along College Drive. The man was described as being about 6 feet tall, weighing about 200 pounds and wearing an EMC hoodie. Police began to pursue the suspect, but lost the man in a foot race in a wooded area behind the Chemistry Quad. According to a professor from the chemistry department, the package contained materials that were in route to the Pennsylvania State Museum of Antiquities.
An ambulance was called to the scene of the accident. Pierce was promptly treated on site, having declined transport.
According to Chief Chase, no charges have been filed by any of the parties involved.

]]> http://blogs.setonhill.edu/MichaelPoiarkoff/2009/09/automobile_accident_and_suspec.html http://blogs.setonhill.edu/MichaelPoiarkoff/2009/09/automobile_accident_and_suspec.html Fri, 18 Sep 2009 10:26:58 -0500 paragraphs and stuff The language of journalism makes meaning early.
-Clark & Scanlan pg. 295

I've always been a firm believer of making every word count, and there's really no better example of this in journalism than the first paragraph of an article. Most of the time, 500 words is a lot less than you would think, and if the first hundred words of that don't tell the reader what your trying to say, the next 400 probably wont have a chance. Always open strong. The general public is horribly judgemental whether they have the right to be or not, and if the first lines of an article don't give them what they're looking for, they move on. Cater to reader. If the first paragraph is all that a busy news junkie is going to read of my article, I'm going to make sure it's worth their while.

]]> http://blogs.setonhill.edu/MichaelPoiarkoff/2009/09/paragraphs_and_stuff.html http://blogs.setonhill.edu/MichaelPoiarkoff/2009/09/paragraphs_and_stuff.html Fri, 11 Sep 2009 09:13:46 -0500 Portfolioso 3 blog portfolio 3

]]> http://blogs.setonhill.edu/MichaelPoiarkoff/2007/05/portfolioso_3.html http://blogs.setonhill.edu/MichaelPoiarkoff/2007/05/portfolioso_3.html Wed, 09 May 2007 16:12:15 -0500 I think I may have broken the little toe on my right foot "One thing can be said for an eight-month course of cancer treatment: it is highly educational. I am learning to suffer."

]]> http://blogs.setonhill.edu/MichaelPoiarkoff/2007/05/i_think_i_may_have_broken_the.html http://blogs.setonhill.edu/MichaelPoiarkoff/2007/05/i_think_i_may_have_broken_the.html Mon, 07 May 2007 09:43:20 -0500 I had zombie dreams last night. I think it was becasue I ate a sandwich and a bunch of Quaker oat squares right before I went to bed. "I am not a happy man, Ender. Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf. Survival first, then happiness as we can manage it."


]]> http://blogs.setonhill.edu/MichaelPoiarkoff/2007/04/i_had_zombie_dreams_last_night.html http://blogs.setonhill.edu/MichaelPoiarkoff/2007/04/i_had_zombie_dreams_last_night.html Mon, 23 Apr 2007 10:21:08 -0500 Checkblog point My blogging checkpoint?

]]> http://blogs.setonhill.edu/MichaelPoiarkoff/2007/04/checkblog_point.html http://blogs.setonhill.edu/MichaelPoiarkoff/2007/04/checkblog_point.html Wed, 18 Apr 2007 10:06:05 -0500 Harvest Five Grain "One of the most memorable figures of Shakespeare's tragedies is King Lear, wandering madly through the raging tempest. The debate over interpretations of the play is well known: pagan versus Christian."

]]> http://blogs.setonhill.edu/MichaelPoiarkoff/2007/04/harvest_five_grain.html http://blogs.setonhill.edu/MichaelPoiarkoff/2007/04/harvest_five_grain.html Mon, 16 Apr 2007 10:49:34 -0500 How good can smart taste? "And it immediately establishes a parallel, by displacement, between action of the play, firmly placed in the British past, and the current times in which Shakespeare and his fellow Londoners were living."

]]> http://blogs.setonhill.edu/MichaelPoiarkoff/2007/04/how_good_can_smart_taste.html http://blogs.setonhill.edu/MichaelPoiarkoff/2007/04/how_good_can_smart_taste.html Mon, 16 Apr 2007 10:34:40 -0500 My friend got a package from her mom. I feel unloved. "And you needn't to think you'll catch me because Pointer ain't really my name. I use a different name at every house I call at and don't stay nowhere long."

]]> http://blogs.setonhill.edu/MichaelPoiarkoff/2007/04/my_friend_got_a_package_from_h.html http://blogs.setonhill.edu/MichaelPoiarkoff/2007/04/my_friend_got_a_package_from_h.html Mon, 02 Apr 2007 10:25:20 -0500 bed lamp keys "She gasped and shut her eyes. No. No. It couldn't be any baby. She was not going to have something waiting in her to make her deader, she was not."

]]> http://blogs.setonhill.edu/MichaelPoiarkoff/2007/03/bed_lamp_keys.html http://blogs.setonhill.edu/MichaelPoiarkoff/2007/03/bed_lamp_keys.html Mon, 26 Mar 2007 10:28:53 -0500 I just sneezed and woke my roommate up. "...he had a look of composed dissatisfaction as if he understood life thoroughly."

]]> http://blogs.setonhill.edu/MichaelPoiarkoff/2007/03/i_just_sneezed_and_woke_my_roo.html http://blogs.setonhill.edu/MichaelPoiarkoff/2007/03/i_just_sneezed_and_woke_my_roo.html Mon, 26 Mar 2007 10:14:02 -0500 window keyboard hand “On the page, punctuation performs its grammatical function, but in the mind of the reader it does more than that. It tells the reader how to hum the tune.”

]]> http://blogs.setonhill.edu/MichaelPoiarkoff/2007/03/window_keyboard_hand.html http://blogs.setonhill.edu/MichaelPoiarkoff/2007/03/window_keyboard_hand.html Wed, 21 Mar 2007 10:14:51 -0500 How cool would it be if the plural of sausage was sausagi? "Although the American poet Robert Frost famously dismissed writing in free verse as analogous to 'playing tennis with the net down,' and critics have occasionally called for a return to metrics, free verse has become the most frequent poetic form in modern English poetry."

]]> http://blogs.setonhill.edu/MichaelPoiarkoff/2007/03/how_cool_would_it_be_if_the_pl.html http://blogs.setonhill.edu/MichaelPoiarkoff/2007/03/how_cool_would_it_be_if_the_pl.html Mon, 12 Mar 2007 10:10:03 -0500