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Jonesboro Massacre

What happened? Who did it? Why? What type of angle would you do for the story?

The Jonesboro school massacre occurred March 24, 1998, in Arkansas. Four female students and a teacher were killed, and nine other students and a teacher were wounded, by two armed middle school boys Mitchell Johnson, age 13, and Andrew Golden, age 11.

On the morning of the massacre the boys, both dressed in army-style camoflagued clothes, stole a van from Johnson's home, and after loading it with camping supplies, food, and 7 weapons including two semi-automatic rifles, and four handguns which had been stolen from their Grandfather's house.

I wound angle it in away to spread the word to stop violence everywhere especially school.

10 Steps to Writing a Story – Broadcast Journalism

1. Find a topic
what is you story about? football, basketball
-who is your audience? my age group
-why is this story imporatant to your audience? its relevant to out daily lives.
2. Find an Angle
-what about your topic?
-More specifically, what is important about your topic?
3. Collect information
- who are the experts for this story?
- do you need opposing points of view?
- what other research must be done to complete the story?
4. Conduct the interview
- ask open questions.
- rule of threes.
5. Shoot your reporter _______________ _________.
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6. Organize your _______________.
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7. Write ______________ in your story.
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8. Write the ________________ and __________________ of your story.
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9. Write the anchor ______________ and ________________ (if necessary).
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10. Collect ___________ to add to your story (throughout steps 4-9)
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http://www.kidglue.com/2011/02/23/student-suspended-for-insulting-teacher-on-facebook/

Which court standard did someone follow or break in your article?
http://www.kidglue.com/2011/02/23/student-suspended-for-insulting-teacher-on-facebook/
Do you agree with the decisions in your article?
kind of yes and no


What do you feel should have been done in this instance? He should of got in school suspension instead of out of school suspencion


What do you feel will be the future of rights in today's digital age? I think it would be more freedom, people will loose alot of morals


What rights do you have inside of school? freedom of press and assembly


What rights do you have outside of school?
Freedom of Religion
Speech
press
petition
assembly

GM Falls Below

General motors fell to the lowest since its public offering in November as rising oil prices rose. Gm went from $1.89 to $32.70 in New York Stock Exchange. The drop made the general motors company to trade for lesser price dur to the stock exchange. The fall made GM Chief Executive speed the development and introduction of new models, including more fuel efficient cars that may sell better as gas prices rise.

1. What are the 5 freedoms of the 1st amendment? freedom of speech, religon, press, assembley, grecisence.

2. What is the Tinker Standard? dosent disrupt school.


3. What is the Frasier Standard? They can censor student speech that is vulgar or indecent.


4. What is the Hazelwood Standard? resonably related to legitimate pedagogical concerns.


5. What is the Frederick Standard? wrote bong free hits in a big poster out of school, not in school property and got suspended for 10 days

6. What is the definition of libel?

Wisconsin Power Play

Wisconsin protesters busting out governor of wisconsin. They said it wasn't a smart thing to do but it was relevant to the sistuation. It talked about alot of problems within the state and how president Obama should of helped with the Mubarak regime. The governor of Wisconsin is trying to get rid of the union, which alot of protesters is not agreeing with his decisions to how the governor wants to handle things.

i answered 11 out of 30 correct which is bad and today the questions was more chanllenging and confusing. It was intresting though. I learned a couple of things which is good.

http://splc.org/quiz/quiz2.asp

15/30 i guess i learned a little bit; most of the stuff i recognized but wasn't sure for the right answer.

U.S. Immigration And Customs Enforcement Agent, Killed In Mexico

U.S. immigration agent was killed in Mexico, helping out with the crack down of the organized crime mob, other agents was wounded. The gunmen attacked the agents as they saw there blue SUV. He fired shots into the SUV, killing one and wounding others. U.S. and Mexican officials said they were working closely together to investigate the shooting and find those responsible. President Barack Obama expressed condolences Wednesday to Zapata's family.

Minn. woman arrested on tenth drunken driving offense

A Minnesota woman has been arrested for her tenth time driving while intexticated. The 53 year old woman was arrested by state troppers in burnett county in sandstone Minnesota. The reason for her arrest is that she was suspisious of operating a vehicle while intoxicated. She was convicted for her tenth time which is a record in burnett county. Her passenger was cited for having open intoxicants.

More Minnesotans are avoiding second-hand smoke

Minnesotans are avoiding second hand smoke. Ever since the ban on smoking indoor in 2007 it raised attenision in Minnesota. Nearly 9 out of 10 people surveyed now prohibit smoking inside their houses. Since then the numbers have died down also majority of the smokers rufuse to smoke inside of their homes which is amazing. Researchers and surveys also found that a high persentage of smokers are trying to quit.

Fans sue NFL, Cowboys, Jerry Jones over Super Bowl ticket fiasco

Superbowl fans, sue they cowboys, Jerry Jones over superbowl tickets which 400 fans who were forced to watch the game on TVs in the bowels of the stadium because their temporary seats weren’t available and on behalf of Cowboys season ticket-holders who were given folding chairs with obstructed views, rather than the regular seats they were expecting. Which i thought was harsh, and they deserve to get sued.

Health Officials Offer Safety Tips to Ecstasy Users

Health officals in southern California quietly launched a campaign about saftey tips to ecstasy useres, that follows the death of a 15 year old girl. The death of the teenage girl sparked the health officals in southern California to tell people if there going to use it use it carefully. They offered tips that take freqent breaks and stay hydrated also to not mix ecstacy with other substances especially alcohol.

What is the company? chrysler, volkswagon, doritos

Who is the target audience: young adult, adult and male. adult male, young, teenagers, kids young adults
What persuasive method used (humor, action, celebrity, human interest, etc.)? celebrity, history, human interest. character, humor. humor

How were camera shots and editing used to enhance the message? diffrent angles and effects. music, effects character from move. effects music

What is the slogan message for the company? imported from detroit. new volkswagon, crunch
Was the message effective? Why or why not? yes, because it had a good story facts and history. Yes, the kid and the dad. kind of, the facts.

superbowl Ads

This years superbowl ads was filled with alot of entertaining ads with diffrent varietys. The ads inluded foods, products etc, cars, technology ect, clothese, buisnesses and so on. My favorite comecrial that i liked was the one about chrysler and its history and how they filmed the comercial it had this look that was appeling. One thing that was certain about this years superbowl ads was the car commecials.

Define “Broadcast Journalism” in 1-3 sentences.


is the field of news and journals which are "broadcast", that is, published by electrical methods, instead of the older methods, such as printed newspapers and posters.Broadcast methods include radio, television and internet.


List and describe the six criteria of newsworthiness.

TITLE DESCRIPTION EXAMPLE
1. unusualness

2.significant

3.timeliness-old news isn't news: its History. People what to hear about an event while hapening

4.Proximity-people want to know about nearby events

5.prominence- when well known people, buildings, or places involed, that its news.

6. Humanintrest-stories about ordinary people or animals.




What are the differences between print journalism and broadcast journalism?
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How is the Internet impacting broadcast journalism?

Southern states coated with snow

Southern states like texas, memphis and georgia was coated with alot of snow, which is rare for them to even have snow. It caused schools to close, flights to delay or canceled until the weather was clear. Some states it was so bad that they closed almost everything. snow level reached up to six inches and up. It was definetly cold in some places. the tempreature reached 20 or below, for most cases thats cold and to cold for those states since they dont experience cold weathers like this.

Allen, Lucas H-swing dance
Blanchard, Derek J-cheearleader
Boese, Sara M-75 percent german
Brazelton, Keely R-32 siblings
Buchanan, Tiarra S-chowder
Carlson, Devony R-comercial as a kid
Cordova, Christian J-wants to be a forensice scientist
Cox, Derrick D-car service class at rosemount
Devries, Peter T-genius
Erickson, Nathaniel P-got a hole in one
Felker, Marisa L- foreign exchange student next year
Fraki, Hannah R-born in chicago
Groskreutz, Jackson H- role model john lenon
Jones, Nadia S- 9 siblings
Kading, Caroline E-almost died in a car accident
Kane, William M- goes by middle name max
Lafontaine, Kristin D-hyper extended spine
Lesch, John R plays bag pipes
Mcgroarty, Cody J- world champion all star team
Mitchell, Alexander C-scotish and irish
Morrissey, Gretta E- whistle with hand over mouth
Pelant, Benjamin M- diabetes
Rasugu, Billy P-makes and writes his own music
Reagles, Alex J
Rosario, Brian L
Schiebel, Derek M-copper town to play basketball
Schlotfeldt, Katherine A- rock knee
Smith, Madison B-twist her arm all the way back
Strusz, Ashley E-was on tv at age 7 dance residle
Sytchev, Vladislav-russia to canada to minnesota
Thompson, Collin P-twin
Wangler, Matthew J-broke his nose
White, Hannah Y-
Wunderlich, Benjamin D-born in chicago hotest day of the year
Zemien, Brianna J-100 percent polish

Fireworks blaze destroys 5-star hotel in China

A five star hotel in China was destroyed due to fireworks which was being lite up for a hour. It was a celebration of lunar new year. Good thing no injeries was reporeted. Firefighters had trouble dealing with the fire because their fire engines shot water up only 165 feet, while the building was 720-feet tall. It was a challege for them, but it was accomplished.