September 2007 Archives

The first article I read, Man accused of beheading duck at hotel is a soft news story that is short and precise.  Not until this class have I noticed details such as allegedly drunk.  In the past I would just have assumed the man in the article was drunk.  I also would have glanced over the the the part about Clark remaining jailed on suspicion of felony.  I never gave much thought to the different degrees of crimes and how a person could be charged-because I have neve been charged.  I see why it is so important for a reporter to get the facts straight because the paper could be sued by anybody who has been wrongfully detailed in the paper.  I also noticed that neither the general manager or assistant general manger were available to take this reporter's calls.  Is this such a serious news story that they should be avoiding the press?  Dude, take the ducks out of your lobby and save yourself a lot of trouble.

The second story I read, Park Thug Mugs Cupid is lengthier and more indepth.  All of the important information is in the first paragraph and the second para. is all about how the man set up a romantic setting to propsoe to his girlfriend.  The rest of the article goes on to detail how the proposal and robbery took place.  THe robber was never captured and no policemen were interviewed.  I think the first article, although shorter and sillier, was better because of the information given and the fact that the reporter added that he tried to reach hotel management but there was no comment.

I am furious about this article on covering crime and its victims.  Are these journalists nuts!  Why do they think they are more qualified than women, rape service agencies, and rape victims themselves to decide whether or not the names of rape victims should be disclosed in the papers?  I understand that getting the victim's side makes the story more human, but why would a rape victim want their name published in the paper?  Haven't they been humiliated enough?  Why is each new generation of journalists voting to smear these victims names - so you can read that your neighbor or your kid's teacher was raped last night.  So Joe Cub reporter who just graduated with a shiny degree in journalism - not psychology - wants to bager some woman who was raped in an alley on her way to the gym, but the rapists doesn't have to talk about his experience.  I agree with Mcbride that a new conversaton about rape and the media is necessary.  She thinks it is important for journalists to be better informed about rape from different aspects, including doctors, researchers, counselors, and law enforcement officials.  Do journalists really think simply printing a name on a page is just that?  No, it means that person has to publically carry that printed version of his/her experience around forever.  As for a reporter being opinionated about a prostitute being killed on the job or a drug addict over dosing, I would hope that he/she would not havae become a journalist if such topics were issues.

I like the idea of finding the different hook to each story as discussed on page twenty-seven.  I noticed in workbook 3 there were ideas for different hooks such as the fact that the 1st guy who lost his jump drive lived by the same park where the woman's purse was stolen.  A hook could have led from the fact that the librarian said there were tons of jump drives in a box in the lost and found.  These ideas were interesting, but I wasn't sure if Jerz wanted type of paper-later he said it would have been fine.  I also thought that I wouldn't have been able to have gotten as much information from these angles as I did from the original story.  If I had more time to work on these stories I would definately try to get more out of them.

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