Saturday March 31, 2007 (Blog #9)
So I saw the MOST PAINFULLY AND TERRIBLY HILARIOUS MOVIE EVER LAST NIGHT WITH MY FRIENDS CALLED “BLADES OF GLORY!” We could not stop ranting and raving about the movie and how great it was!
Figure skating was glorified through a rink of show stopping, rib jolting laughs full of tears, glittering skin tight costumes and three awesome cheers!...WE LOVED IT!!!!!
Then it hit me, we were creating a movie review, and tying this is in with journalism, GOODNESS, movie reviews are A FORM OF JOURNALISM! This is would be another great career under the field of journalism, in addition to the many others offered under this career umbrella. HOW DIVERSE AND EXCITING CAN JOURNALISM BE?!!!!!
Speaking of an ideal review for “Blades of Glory,” CNN.COM is the perfect model:
http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/Movies/03/30/review.blades/index.html
Saturday, March 31, 2007
Saturday, March 24, 2007
Honolulu Star-Bulletin: Boiling stories
Saturday March 24, 2007 (Blog #8)
so we just received another email from professor robertson regarding the honolulu star-bulletin and how writers or good reporters should be able to minimize their story and cut out unimportant information to make it clearer, concise and solid. it's a tough job, but it's a gradual attainment through practice, learning and experience in the field. all i have to say is, can a writer/reporter really grasp the entire point or concept of the story in 250 words or less, or even sum it up within the lead? that would be terrific!.....and i am sure it has been done before and certainly can be done.
so we just received another email from professor robertson regarding the honolulu star-bulletin and how writers or good reporters should be able to minimize their story and cut out unimportant information to make it clearer, concise and solid. it's a tough job, but it's a gradual attainment through practice, learning and experience in the field. all i have to say is, can a writer/reporter really grasp the entire point or concept of the story in 250 words or less, or even sum it up within the lead? that would be terrific!.....and i am sure it has been done before and certainly can be done.
Tuesday, March 6, 2007
Bloody and unnecessary
Tuesday March 6, 2007 (Blog #7)
As if society has not been subjected to enough tragedy from the news already and we are just continually stricken with death after death. SF gate's front online page conveyed this (and i am even more affected and frightened by this because it occurred very near to us and recently) :
As if society has not been subjected to enough tragedy from the news already and we are just continually stricken with death after death. SF gate's front online page conveyed this (and i am even more affected and frightened by this because it occurred very near to us and recently) :
HAYWARD Grief over shootings of two 4-year-old girls
Police seek motive in drive-by that hit only children
Polly Snell fixed her grief-laden gaze Tuesday on the blood-spattered sidewalk and front yard of a Hayward home where two 4-year-old girls were shot in the head during a drive-by shooting the night before.
"It's heartbreaking -- it really hurts," said Snell, 53, the great-great aunt of the girls, who are cousins. "They're angels. I wish to God they'll pull through this. I hope they do. Anything's possible. But where they got shot at, it's bad, real bad."
As the girls clung to life Tuesday at Children's Hospital Oakland, where family members kept a vigil, Hayward police tried to find a motive in Monday night's shooting at the home on the 27700 block of Seminole Way.
No arrests have been made, and there have been no other drive-by shootings recently in the neighborhood off West Tennyson Road near Interstate 880. Hayward police would not say whether they believed any adults at the home had been singled out for retaliation or any other reason.
Police seek motive in drive-by that hit only children
Polly Snell fixed her grief-laden gaze Tuesday on the blood-spattered sidewalk and front yard of a Hayward home where two 4-year-old girls were shot in the head during a drive-by shooting the night before.
"It's heartbreaking -- it really hurts," said Snell, 53, the great-great aunt of the girls, who are cousins. "They're angels. I wish to God they'll pull through this. I hope they do. Anything's possible. But where they got shot at, it's bad, real bad."
As the girls clung to life Tuesday at Children's Hospital Oakland, where family members kept a vigil, Hayward police tried to find a motive in Monday night's shooting at the home on the 27700 block of Seminole Way.
No arrests have been made, and there have been no other drive-by shootings recently in the neighborhood off West Tennyson Road near Interstate 880. Hayward police would not say whether they believed any adults at the home had been singled out for retaliation or any other reason.
AND AGAIN................WAS THIS PICTURE REALLY NECESSARY? HOW SAD IS THIS!!!!!!?!
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