Homecoming Assignment

This post isnt really for this class but I had a prompt for english where I could write in any format I wanted. So of course I decided to kill two birds with one stone and do a journalism style essay. I haven't actually read the book about how to be a journalist yet. This essay is kind of like a before point in my journey to become a journalism master. Hopefully one day I will be able to look back at this post and laugh at how terrible I was. Here goes nothing..... Palatine...

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Group Project, Progress and Problems

This I going to be basically a live post so I'm just going to be writing as I get ideas. People havent seemed to think to much about the project since last meeting. We need the software to produce (Ryans) posts. Im not very famillar with the google sites format. We need a timeline, when each character does the actions in a specific story, Old age-remembering past experiances, Topics: Introduction Job War (Conflict) First/Last Day This post may be updated...

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Fundamentals Of Journalism

Today is the day of the random posts, youre just going to have to deal with that for now. I just wanted to share a picture of the second book I plan on reading on journali...

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Suggestions.

Ok so I have a lot of planned post topics and things I'm going to unveil in the coming months. I was just wondering if anybody else had topic ideas/suggestions/critisism for me. Feel free to leave it in the comments. -Victo...

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If It Bleeds It Leads

I decided I should probably show you the book I'm going to be/have been reading and analyzing. So here it is, I got it at my local library, I got a bunch more books that I will probably be reading as well. ...

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If It Bleeds It Leads: Rundown, Disclaimer

I've began reading my first journalism book for the year. It is entitled If It Bleeds It Leads: An anatomy television news. The book seems to compare the different kinds of journalists. It's mission thus far is to show how much talk show hosts and the hard hitting journalists you watch everyday actually have in common. Because this book is a little old, some of the specific people they mention arent actually on the air anymore. I dont think this makes any...

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Looking To The Future By Learning From The Past

I hope to start making more "regular" posts here and the majority of them will be relating to the books I (plan on) reading. The majority of these books do involve techniques and information relating to radio, television, and print. This information will hopefully guide me along to knowledge relating to more modern forms of news, the internet in particular. I feel like these medias are more alike than they are different. Each of them deliver the news in a...

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The Ramblings of A Crazy Person

The first thing that went through my mind, as I assume it went through the minds of my classmates is when we got our class assignment is one that's been bothering me for quite a while. Our topic is supposed to be our life's focus, the interest to end all interest. Is journalism the thing that I want to do with my life. The simple answer to that question is yes, but so many other things challenge me with this decision. I would...

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Background

I have been watching the news for as long as I can remember. Television has always been a big part of my life, for better or worse, and I have learned so many things that way. As I got older and my interest (obsession) with the internet grew it became another new way for me to learn what is going on in the world. I spend a lot of my time on websites that mix journalism and entertainment. Because of this I have learned a lot about things...

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Topic Tags

I just decided to post a list of some of the topics I will be blogging about this year and the tags to them if you want to see every post about a topic, once I get started that is :) USA World Politics Justice    Entertainment Tech Money Lifestyle Sports I...

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Introduction To The Internet

At this moment I am sitting at my computer with eight of the most popular and well-known news websites displayed, eight pages that serve millions of people knowledge about the world around them daily . Each page is displaying similar news articles but each seems to have its own opinion and a different way it delivers news to the people that visit it. cnn.com cnn displays the most multi-media on its front page. A variety of pictures, articles, and...

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Mission Statement

This is my mission statement for this blog.  The mission of this blog is to provide an outlet, and a way to share my studies in the subject of journalism in my Critical Thinking class this school year. I will be sharing interesting articles that I come across from various news sources and giving my own opinion, and point of view on the news. A variety of sources including television and the internet covering any topics that I find interesting and/or...

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