Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Lead

Music is a changing.
The music of yesterday drastically shapes the music of today, and tomorrow. Former bands like Led Zeppelin and The Beatles inspire many of today. Many different genres spiral out of the nineties including Electronica, Soft Rock, Alternative, Punk, a more vibrant rap, and more.
This of course has created hundreds of artist with new ones coming up every day. Early groups like Daft Punk all the way up to Kid Cudi. The music of the past has really formed young artist like these today.   

Monday, April 25, 2011

Hard News Notes

A hard news story should be +/- 600 words. it starts with what is called a summary lead, where, what, when, where, why, and how. sumarize the lead in the first two sentances. The five W's should be in the first two sentences, in youre lead.

Tuesday, April 19, 2011

We will take notes on Broadcast Journalism Law/Ethics

1. What are the 5 freedoms of the 1st amendment?
Freedom of speech, Religion, Press, Assembly, Petition

2. What is the Tinker Standard?
Tinker Vs. Des Moines school district, Black armbands in 1965, student speech cannot be censord as long as it does not "materially disrupt class work or involve substantial disorder or invasion of the rights to others"

3. What is the Frasier Standard?
Bethel School District vs. Frasier, Innapropriate speech for class president
Because the school officials have an "interest in teaching students the boundries of socially appropriate behavior," they can censor student speech that is vulgar or indecent, even if it does not cause a "materialor substantial disruption."

4. What is the Hazelwood Standard?
Hazeelwood School District vs. Kuhlmeier (1988) censor stories in student newspaper about teen pregnancy and divorce.
Censorshipof school sponsored student expression is permissible when school officials can show that it is "reasonably related to legitimate pedagogical concerns."

5. What is the Frederick Standard?
January 2002, Olympic torch travels through town
Principal Morse cancels school
Senior Fredrick unveils banner on side walk across street which reads "Bong hits 4 jesus"
suspended for ten days


6. What is the definition of libel?
liable and slander are legal terms for false statements of fact about a person that are pirnted or spoken.
1. it defames some ones character, false statement of fact, published, hursts rep, printed.

Monday, April 18, 2011

Definition:
Define “Journalism” in 1-3 sentences.

The telling of current events that are news worthy through
news papers, magazines, and the internet.
List and describe the six criteria of newsworthiness.

TITLE DESCRIPTION EXAMPLE
1 Timliness-recent, weather, sports score

2. Prominence- carring about famous people, celeberties, royal subjects, magazines

3. Proximaty-we care about the news thats close to us, weather, local, traffic

4.Significance- the bigger the event the more people are impacted by it, japan earth quake, huge events, 9/11

5. Unusualness- we care about things that dont happen ver often, unusual, hurricanes, prince getting married in london

6. Human Interest stories- Feel good stories, rescuing a kitten from tree, baby panda




What are the advantages of print journalism?
1.One advantage of print journilisim is the stories are more in detail

2.You controll what you read and how much you read

3.Physically tangable


What are the advantages of broadcast journalism?

1.Much more current

2.You get to phisically see and hear it, live video

3.Easy access, where ever


Why has online journalism (convergent media) become so popular? Because its the best of each media. It takes the best of both worlds and can be updated at any second, live vedio stream on web pages, putting news papers out of business, easy to accsess and its free.