This story is about Lindsay Lohan being sent back to jail after breaking more laws.
However, the focus of this story I want you all to look at is the sources. This writer wrote a good story with facts and quotes to back up information. I am sure this story was over all kinds of blogs and gossip pages, but may not have the sources to prove their information is accurate. Is this information accurate because it is CNN? Maybe. But look closely. CNN did not talk to Lohan. They got their quotes/ information from twitter. Can Twitter be used as a source for journalists even though they did not talk with the person directly? How reliable of a source is Twitter? I think many people in the public eye use Twitter to say what they want without having to answer to any reporters. I have seen many situations where people have apologized and commented about decisions they have made. Is this what technology has come down to in relation with reporting? I hope not. I think reporters should still try to interview and not take the "easy" way out (if it is an easy way) by getting quotes off Twitter.
I found this article on the front page of the World news section of Yahoo. The story is about 33 miners trapped half-mile underground in San Jose, Chile.
Unlike several of the articles I've post for my "Worth-a-Look," I find this one to be very interesting and worthwhile. The author does a great job of explaining the situation and all the questions a reader might have regarding the health and well-being of the miners. The article goes in depth about the different techniques of surviving and how the miners are working together to do so. Not only is it very interesting to see how they have been surviving since August 5th but it is also very comforting to see how many people are put into the mix, all working to provide comfortability, neccessary resources and care to help keep the miners calm and well. The author does a great job of explaining how the resources are lowered to the miners, what they are allowed and therefore what they are prohibited to have to help them stay united while half a mile underground. There are four key sources used in the piece which provide significant and resourceful information regarding the psychological aspects of the miners and their well being. Overall, I think that the author, Vivian Sequera, produced a very informative and well written piece, while keeping emotion out of the mix, about the event and it's worth taking a look at.
I found this interesting post on Deadspin, a sports blog, where one writer takes apart a column written by Mitch Albom. He analyzes it bit by bit, and does it well. Albom's a polarizing columnist who seems to pander a lot to much older people, and it's evident in this post. I felt this was relevant because columnists shouldn't just try writing what their audience likes but actually say what they believe in. Albom declaring fantasy baseball the killer of the "real experience" of a baseball game is just ignorant.
In one of my courses this semester we have been looking at war crimes and through my research online I found some interesting clips on the tragedy of mass rape in the Congo. This first clip is an interview a journalist did with the soldiers who are the ones raping women and children, to understand what their thinking was behind it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbZIK9Ce0yM The next two clips are part of an interview that is broken up into two parts and it shows the crimes from the victims eyes and is done by a different journalist. I thought the variation in technique was interesting to look at with such a sensitive subject. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUH8ZhmEyP8&NR=1&feature=fvwp (part one) and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijtZara2pIA&feature=channel (part two)
This article is about Stephen Colbert's testimony at a congressional hearing about immigration, but it also deals with the larger issue of "celebrities" and their place in the political sphere. I think it's a very simple piece, but it exposes a much larger issue: for my part, I've often found that I've gotten better/more accurate news from the fictional host than from "legitimate" news sources. The same goes for a lot of the content on The Daily Show. While Colbert is a fictional character who satirizes the Republican stereotype, he also covers difficult issues in an entertaining and informative way.
The media coverage that exploded all over this testimony says a lot about our focus as a nation, however. While I do think that the reporting is a bit shallow in the sense of not digging into the deeper issues enough, it has quite a few solid sources and an interesting angle. Check it out.
I found this as one of the top headlines on the yahoo homepage. Is this really high priority news? There is even a video that accompanies the story meaning it has receieved even more publicity than it probably should. The fact that a few girls were not allowed into a school dance is not news I want presented as a top headline due to the fact that it affects very few people.
This is a story I read that almost validates to me the necessity of Twitter as a new medium.
The story, found on the Online Journalism Review, is about how real-time web accessibility is clearing the way for real-time journalism to be a prevalent new way of getting our news. Twitter is the best way to update things as soon as they happen, and can be shared with vast amounts of people all across the world.
The story talked about how, through the use of Twitter, hostages were taken by a man with a gun who entered the Discovery Channel headquarters. Updates were posted by those on other floors, saying where the gunman was, how many people he had hostage, etc. That not only makes it more useful for police to get a tip of breaking crime, but it is a way for journalists, like the author of this story, to update news blogs and breaking clips to inform people of what is happening. I thought this was a really cool story.
I think that story is worth a look simply because it has everything to do with journalism and news media. And, of course, because it is the president speaking I think it will receive more attention than it should, but I think this story relates to the conversation we had a couple of weeks ago about opinionated journalism and journalists trying to separate facts from opinion.
Justine
ReplyDeletehttp://www.cnn.com/2010/SHOWBIZ/celebrity.news.gossip/09/24/lindsay.lohan.hearing/index.html?hpt=Sbin
This story is about Lindsay Lohan being sent back to jail after breaking more laws.
However, the focus of this story I want you all to look at is the sources. This writer wrote a good story with facts and quotes to back up information. I am sure this story was over all kinds of blogs and gossip pages, but may not have the sources to prove their information is accurate. Is this information accurate because it is CNN? Maybe. But look closely. CNN did not talk to Lohan. They got their quotes/ information from twitter. Can Twitter be used as a source for journalists even though they did not talk with the person directly? How reliable of a source is Twitter? I think many people in the public eye use Twitter to say what they want without having to answer to any reporters. I have seen many situations where people have apologized and commented about decisions they have made. Is this what technology has come down to in relation with reporting? I hope not. I think reporters should still try to interview and not take the "easy" way out (if it is an easy way) by getting quotes off Twitter.
Jayde Marie Hux
ReplyDeletehttp://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100927/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_chile_mine_collapse
I found this article on the front page of the World news section of Yahoo. The story is about 33 miners trapped half-mile underground in San Jose, Chile.
Unlike several of the articles I've post for my "Worth-a-Look," I find this one to be very interesting and worthwhile. The author does a great job of explaining the situation and all the questions a reader might have regarding the health and well-being of the miners. The article goes in depth about the different techniques of surviving and how the miners are working together to do so. Not only is it very interesting to see how they have been surviving since August 5th but it is also very comforting to see how many people are put into the mix, all working to provide comfortability, neccessary resources and care to help keep the miners calm and well. The author does a great job of explaining how the resources are lowered to the miners, what they are allowed and therefore what they are prohibited to have to help them stay united while half a mile underground. There are four key sources used in the piece which provide significant and resourceful information regarding the psychological aspects of the miners and their well being. Overall, I think that the author, Vivian Sequera, produced a very informative and well written piece, while keeping emotion out of the mix, about the event and it's worth taking a look at.
http://deadspin.com/5644264/playing-down-to-your-audience
ReplyDeleteI found this interesting post on Deadspin, a sports blog, where one writer takes apart a column written by Mitch Albom. He analyzes it bit by bit, and does it well. Albom's a polarizing columnist who seems to pander a lot to much older people, and it's evident in this post. I felt this was relevant because columnists shouldn't just try writing what their audience likes but actually say what they believe in. Albom declaring fantasy baseball the killer of the "real experience" of a baseball game is just ignorant.
Samer Kalaf
In one of my courses this semester we have been looking at war crimes and through my research online I found some interesting clips on the tragedy of mass rape in the Congo.
ReplyDeleteThis first clip is an interview a journalist did with the soldiers who are the ones raping women and children, to understand what their thinking was behind it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbZIK9Ce0yM
The next two clips are part of an interview that is broken up into two parts and it shows the crimes from the victims eyes and is done by a different journalist. I thought the variation in technique was interesting to look at with such a sensitive subject.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUH8ZhmEyP8&NR=1&feature=fvwp
(part one)
and
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijtZara2pIA&feature=channel
(part two)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/09/28/colberts-congress-testimo_n_741369.html
ReplyDeleteThis article is about Stephen Colbert's testimony at a congressional hearing about immigration, but it also deals with the larger issue of "celebrities" and their place in the political sphere. I think it's a very simple piece, but it exposes a much larger issue: for my part, I've often found that I've gotten better/more accurate news from the fictional host than from "legitimate" news sources. The same goes for a lot of the content on The Daily Show. While Colbert is a fictional character who satirizes the Republican stereotype, he also covers difficult issues in an entertaining and informative way.
The media coverage that exploded all over this testimony says a lot about our focus as a nation, however. While I do think that the reporting is a bit shallow in the sense of not digging into the deeper issues enough, it has quite a few solid sources and an interesting angle. Check it out.
http://news.yahoo.com/video/dallascbs11-15750646/homecoming-controversy-arises-at-mesquite-high-22126557
ReplyDeleteI found this as one of the top headlines on the yahoo homepage. Is this really high priority news? There is even a video that accompanies the story meaning it has receieved even more publicity than it probably should. The fact that a few girls were not allowed into a school dance is not news I want presented as a top headline due to the fact that it affects very few people.
Brandon Lawrence
ReplyDeletehttp://www.ojr.org/ojr/people/webjournalist/201009/1887/
This is a story I read that almost validates to me the necessity of Twitter as a new medium.
The story, found on the Online Journalism Review, is about how real-time web accessibility is clearing the way for real-time journalism to be a prevalent new way of getting our news. Twitter is the best way to update things as soon as they happen, and can be shared with vast amounts of people all across the world.
The story talked about how, through the use of Twitter, hostages were taken by a man with a gun who entered the Discovery Channel headquarters. Updates were posted by those on other floors, saying where the gunman was, how many people he had hostage, etc. That not only makes it more useful for police to get a tip of breaking crime, but it is a way for journalists, like the author of this story, to update news blogs and breaking clips to inform people of what is happening. I thought this was a really cool story.
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2010/09/28/obama-fox-news-is-destructive-to-america/?hpt=T2
ReplyDeleteI think that story is worth a look simply because it has everything to do with journalism and news media. And, of course, because it is the president speaking I think it will receive more attention than it should, but I think this story relates to the conversation we had a couple of weeks ago about opinionated journalism and journalists trying to separate facts from opinion.