Principles of Journalism, class recap #4 - Oct 1st

I never really considered this weeks in class topic/ presentation as a Journalists responsibility before now but I suppose its true. It is to share news they find with the world. With all the changing ways news is told in the world today we must share our talents with the world as well in global coverage of large events.   now a days with the with the demand for speed and news, journalists have to be careful before blurting out incorrect info on tweeter that isn’t accurate or posting a video on youtube that hasn’t had it’s sources checked. They need to be careful about the things they post. being fast at reporting does not outweigh accuracy when it comes to the news.  when they’re trying to keep up with the fast pace of the world today be clear and accurate!

Here is a interesting article about the topic 
on USA today's paper http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/opinion/forum/story/2012-04-24/journalism-social-media-giffords-paterno-nikki-haley/54513448/1

Principles of Journalism, class recap #7 - October 22nd

Headline: NYT publishes top secret government secrets

Today's class topic was about he Pentagon papers. It sparked a fairly intense conversation that connected to the more recent Edward Snowden case. It was good to see that people had opinions for themselves and wouldn't back down due to popular or peer belief. I personally wasn't refreshed enough on the topic to participate in the conversation but could see each side's points and why certain conclusions would matter depending on how things really occurred.

 I thought that the group that presented did a really good job in bringing up the debate and controlling in a way that helped everyone come somewhat familiar witht he facts and how that was similar to the past pentagon papers.

http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/p/pentagon_papers/index.html

http://www2.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB48/

Principles of Journalism, class recap #6 - October 15th

Principles of Journalism, class recap #5 - October 8th

This weeks group introduced a very important topic that we must all keep at the forefront of your minds as journalists. That being, all we work to achieve is centered around the benefit to the average day citizens and readers of our papers etc. Educate and breakdown the content that can impact them and to share in a concise unbiased manner that then the people can create their own opinion on that matter is critical to our business. It is a fine balance that we must judge between in the content of our shows papers etc of the popular entertainment and that of important controversial issues.  Because it is a business and we need to pay the bills and stay employed but need to provide and inform the public of big issues in their own neighborhood city state country world.

Here is a good artlice about the responsabilities we need to provide the public. http://www.ieiseattle.org/journalists.htm

Principles of Journalism, class recap #3 - Sep 25th

Last week our class talked about how journalist's see themselves within society. Although the role they play varies between nation and the world as a whole there are common threads amongst journalist's that are worth nothing. The Watch dog aspect. News reporters in general see themselves as a sort of guard for the average American or citizen again their at times quite government officials. Although the government may have their own reasons for keeping things hush hush. information in reporter's eyes is seen as free and needed to have full disclosure. Much of  what they do is to bridge this gap from the elite and prevy of intelligence to the every day man and women so they might be able to come to  opinion themselves.
This may not be the case at all times though, somtimes reporters have biases and an intent t persued their readers to a similiar state of mind. this is generaly frowned upon int he united states with teh ideal to stay neutural and to simply divulge information without persuaiding one way or another. but outseide the USA reporters are very passionate and attempt out right that they are activiely trying to change opinions.
2 way mirror -  our news reflect us as well as us in the news. we must be conscious how and what we consume in news. hold true to ourselves and respect others opinions.

http://www.qchron.com/opinion/letters_to_the_editor/tv-news-bias/article_0a17f096-4e41-54be-a0ce-7cd4d6e8ae54.html

http://www.umich.edu/~newsbias/manifestations.html