Well interested reader, news, in my opinion, is the delivery of any kind of information by any medium. If I were to send you a message in a bottle that said 'I just bought a stick of gum!' it would be news to you, so I think that really any information you hear from anything is 'news'. What most people consider 'news' is the man in a gray suit, white shirt, red tie, slicked back hair, clean shaved, deep voice, and the 'look' delivering 'BREAKING NEWS AT 6'. No. Those people annoy me. but that's a separate point.
News should be any kind of new information (Sports, International, Health, Economic, Local, Personal crap, ANYTHING) that is released to any amount of people (One, two, four, twenty, two hundred, two million) in any medium (iPad, FOX, CNN, Facebook, Note in a bottle, Fortune cookie). That is my definition, and I'm sticking to it. There are different degrees to the importance of the news though.
Important news is the kind of news that is worthy of headlines, big story of the day on TV, and is talked about by everyone such as things that affects the nation/world, medical breakthroughs, and major entertainment news.
The medium level is for news that's get thrown in with Important stuff to make sure it is seen. This is the stories that are in the middle of the paper, leading up to big stories on the TV, and things people don't really talk about unless it's in their area.
The lowest level of news is the level of small local and personal news that is not shown on TV or papers and is only spoken about with friends or small groups of people.
Sunday, June 26, 2011
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Lets get our learn on!
All right, first off, hello! I'm Jeremy, read my profile if you want more, but this is a blog for my Journalism 1 class on FLVS so if you happened upon this... well I don't know what to tell you to expect honestly... This is all new to me too!
So the first question I was asked was something about what I think about the history of journalism. Honestly, my first thought was 'crap man, that took forever!', but I can understand how that must have weeded out the pansies from the real journalists. Having to put each letter down and press hundreds of papers a week (maybe not a week, I'm not sure) would do two things. One, make you strong. Two, make sure you loved getting and giving information. But those are just my thoughts.
Two, if the freedom of press were not assured, there wouldn't be much to see on television besides those stupid "reality" shows (you know they're scripted!) and really lame disney shows. But honestly, with todays technology, I think that news would spread like chain mail. When people got ahold of it. But that is if people got it. The reason we heard about the Weiner scandal was because of the TV news stations, Yahoo! news, and radio news. This example really only applies to people that don't use twitter, or know people that do, but you get my point!
And question number three! I honestly want to learn more about how to get a good story out of something, and how to put it together into a good package. I'm hoping to go into film, and many times television stuff is a step into that, and if I'm going into TV, I would probably prefer doing news to the stupid sitcoms and scripted reality shows. I love being able to dig a story out of something and show it to people.
Anyways, that's me, hope you like it because if you don't, we don't want you here anyways. Have a good morning/afternoon/evening/day/breakfast/dinner/lunch/brunch/tea or whatever is going on!
So the first question I was asked was something about what I think about the history of journalism. Honestly, my first thought was 'crap man, that took forever!', but I can understand how that must have weeded out the pansies from the real journalists. Having to put each letter down and press hundreds of papers a week (maybe not a week, I'm not sure) would do two things. One, make you strong. Two, make sure you loved getting and giving information. But those are just my thoughts.
Two, if the freedom of press were not assured, there wouldn't be much to see on television besides those stupid "reality" shows (you know they're scripted!) and really lame disney shows. But honestly, with todays technology, I think that news would spread like chain mail. When people got ahold of it. But that is if people got it. The reason we heard about the Weiner scandal was because of the TV news stations, Yahoo! news, and radio news. This example really only applies to people that don't use twitter, or know people that do, but you get my point!
And question number three! I honestly want to learn more about how to get a good story out of something, and how to put it together into a good package. I'm hoping to go into film, and many times television stuff is a step into that, and if I'm going into TV, I would probably prefer doing news to the stupid sitcoms and scripted reality shows. I love being able to dig a story out of something and show it to people.
Anyways, that's me, hope you like it because if you don't, we don't want you here anyways. Have a good morning/afternoon/evening/day/breakfast/dinner/lunch/brunch/tea or whatever is going on!
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