Mitchell Stephens wrote in his book ‘A History of News,’ that “Murders and their victims surrender all rights to privacy,” he goes on to quote John McEnroe a former tennis star that claimed that, “Being a celebrity is like I am being raped.” If murders and victims surrender all their rights to privacy and being […]
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“Crimes lead to all sorts of other interesting stories” -Bob Woodward
Posted by: bkiml | October 28, 2010 | No Comment |Reporting is more than rewriting off the internet
Posted by: bellen | October 27, 2010 | No Comment |Reporting has come a long way since America and England were connected by a telegraph cable. Before that time, newspaper publishers had to wait for the mail to arrive with the news. Often, they would print stories that were little more than idle gossip. Unfortunately, some of those stories were false resulting in a public […]
Twitter was created in 2006 by Jack Dorsey. Since it was created 4 years ago, Twitter has gained popularity worldwide and has more than 100 million users. Twitter offers a social networking and microblogging service. Messages are called tweets: they are text-based posts of no more than 140 characters, that are displayed on a user’s […]
When ever stars like Lindsay Lohan and Paris Hilton are in trouble with the law it is all you see in the news. However when artist suck as clifford joseph harris jr AKA TI and Dwayne Carter AKA Lil Wayne are in trouble you only see it in rap specific media. Paris Hilton and Lindsay […]
On Oct. 6, 2010 Roy Halladay pitch his first No Hitter. It was the first post season no hitter in almost 1000 post season games and over 50 years. It was Roy Halladay is the Ace pitcher for the Cincinnati Reds. This game was his first start in a post season game. It is only […]
A stroll by the checkout lane in any average American supermarket reveals a depository of sensationalist tabloids. Tabloids such as the National Enquirer, Globe, and the Star, are all examples of magazines that rely on sensationalism to sell copies. Although the modern-era tabloids date back to the American Daily News in 1919, many people might […]
The physical paper is so expendable; it’s likely to be seen lining the bottom of bird cages or wrinkled and shoved in some room corner. The physical newspaper can now be seen carrying the visual image of the phrase: news does not keep. The general attitude to the physical newspaper can be at best be […]
We all make mistakes. Sometimes we can correct them and sometimes we can’t. Those who work in journalism have to correct their mistakes. If they don’t correct their mistakes they run the risk of losing their credibility. A journalist with no credibility is quickly unemployed. There are those who say that there is no such […]
A brief history of television and a look at its future
Posted by: gpelkofski | October 20, 2010 | No Comment |With all the talk of Google TV and Apple TV and integrating internet content with television content in class, I figured it was time for a brief look at the major technological innovations of TV. 1927- Philo Farnsworth patents his idea for what would be the first television. 1928- W3xK becomes America’s first television network […]
The Washington Post circulates to over 793,000 Northern Virginia readers as of last year. With numbers like these, area residents might not realize that there could be another newspaper in their community. There are numerous weekly community newspapers throughout the Virginia suburbs of Washington, DC. Stop by Alexandria and pick up your copy of the […]
Amelia Jenks Bloomer was born in 1818, in Homer, New York. She was a teacher, who married a lawyer named Dexter Bloomer. He had a paper called The Seneca Falls Courier, for which he encouraged Amelia to write articles. She wrote articles in support of women’s rights and prohibition. She joined several temperance groups and […]
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