FIRST AND FOREMOST, I WANT TO THANK DR. JERZ--NOT JUST FOR ME BUT FOR ALL NEWSWRITING STUDENTS. I HAD ONLY HEARD IN MY MAJOR BRITISH WRITERS I CLASS THAT THE BLOGS WERE DOWN SINCE LIKE 4:00 PM. I WANT TO THANK HIM FOR EXTENDING THE DEADLINE TO LET THOSE OF US WHO COULD DO IT, DO SOME LAST MINUTE TWEAKING. I ALSO WANT TO THANK HIM, FOR ME PERSONALLY, BECAUSE NOW I GET SOMETHING SOMEWHAT DECENT IN.
Ok..so here goes..I can say with full honesty, that I do not have any timeliness OR comments. Why? I simply forgot. Plain and simple, i was lazy and forgot.
Now..as for coverage, I have a few that I think could be displayed for Coverage.
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/LouGagliardi/011088.html This was a blog entry that explained, yeah in two sentences, why I thought the article was interesting to me, but for coverage--in my humble opinion, that's enough.
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/LouGagliardi/011091.html
I was reading Chapter 1 before School started, but never thought of blogging it, till honestly right now. What it said makes sense to me. Sometimes, when I'm writing a news article--I can't think of the right words to use, so rather than give simple details I'll go into long-windness for example:
The above entry explain, with examples, Chapter 1 of the AP Guide to News Writing. I guess this entry could also go into the blog as a Depth entry as well.
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/LouGagliardi/011092.html
This chapter is telling me that I as a journalist need to make sure that I have more than just information in my news articles. I need to tell a story, but to tell it informationally. I can't just use quotes from my sources, or anything like that. I need to tell the story with details, with the information, itself--not just give the information. I think that the big six questions that we need to answer as journalists can be answered with more than just the basic answers
In this entry, I explained chapter 2 of the AP Guide to NewsWriting. I gave an example, and made fun of Dr. Jerz's geekiness as well.
This goes into Coverage, as well. its a simple entry, and wasn't on time, but it still covers enough to make me smile.
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/LouGagliardi/011095.html
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/LouGagliardi/011106.html
Journalism's first loyalty is to the citizens.
That is a direct quote from the book, the Elements of Journalism. But is that really true anymore? Does journalism's first loyalty belong to the citizens, or does journalisms first loyalty now lie with the PR machines that spew out what journalist are and arent allowed to say? I think it lies with the PR machines anymore. I mean there are alot of articles that are human interest stories, but how many of them have all the facts anymore?
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/NancyGregg/2005/09/on_and_off_the.html
The above was the only blog entry that I commented on this time around. The entry was about going on and off the record.