As I sat down and read the feature article from Rolling Stone "Wall Street's Naked Swindle" I immediately noticed how little objectivity the author was using in comparison to a regular news story. He seems to have very strong opinions towards what has recently occurred in our economy, he even uses swear words to get his points across.
The author, Matt Taibbi, is also has more of a theoretical stance in his story where as a news story would be straight to the point and fact oriented. Even though Taibbi is clearly choosing sides one would think of him as less credible, yet, his use of facts and expertise on the matter make him come across as a trust worthy individual. I made sure I read the piece with the awareness that the author is about to state his opinions and strongly at that, I found it very easy to read as well as education and enjoyable.
Most average news articles are done in the inverse pyramid style, where the important facts come first with the least important statements towards the bottom, the point is to get the facts across as efficiently as possible which is a very objective thing to do. The more subjective(or interpretive) feature article is given the freedom to dive into deeper details of the topic since who ever is reading the article clearly must have an interest in your topic.
Monday, October 19, 2009
Friday, October 16, 2009
Feature Idea
The idea that I have been contemplating for my feature story is about a good friend of mine named Chris Farrar. I did not choose him because he is in easy access to me or because I don't want to branch out, but because he is a part of something that I find incredibly interesting. Recently there was an article posted in the Maine Campus about the research a professor is conducting on new ways of finding tumors by using gold. Only five students out of the whole engineering program were chosen to assist the professor with his research and Chris is one of them.
My goal in interviewing him is to get more information about how the research is being conducted, what Chris' specific job is, and what his class mates do. I also think it would be beneficial for the article if he could get me in touch with those students and possibly the professor so I can conduct an interview to get multiple perspectives on the progress they are making.
My goal in interviewing him is to get more information about how the research is being conducted, what Chris' specific job is, and what his class mates do. I also think it would be beneficial for the article if he could get me in touch with those students and possibly the professor so I can conduct an interview to get multiple perspectives on the progress they are making.
Thursday, October 8, 2009
September 25th
Conan O’Brien Signs Off
Out of the deafening applause, Conan O’Brien, host of the popular Late Night’s emerged onto the stage to sat his final goodbye as he is moving on to fill the big shoes, and even larger chin of Jay Leno on the Tonight Show.
Leno is planning on officially handing the show down to large haired, imaginary string dancing O’Brien in June of 2009. As the Tonight show and Late night with Conan O’Brien have both been aired on NBC for a while now, O’Brien being on the air since 1993, NBC has full confidence in their new host.
The show was one for the ages, numerous of O’Brien’s close friends stopped into the show to wish him luck. Among the favorite guests were O’Brien’s long time friend and old colleague, Andy Richter and Will Ferrell who was splitting sides with his famous George W. Bush character. To cap the show off, The White stripes performed a unique version of “We Are Going to Be Friends”, followed by O’Brien announcing that despite rumors of his act being edited for the earlier show time it will still be as immature as it ever was.
Out of the deafening applause, Conan O’Brien, host of the popular Late Night’s emerged onto the stage to sat his final goodbye as he is moving on to fill the big shoes, and even larger chin of Jay Leno on the Tonight Show.
Leno is planning on officially handing the show down to large haired, imaginary string dancing O’Brien in June of 2009. As the Tonight show and Late night with Conan O’Brien have both been aired on NBC for a while now, O’Brien being on the air since 1993, NBC has full confidence in their new host.
The show was one for the ages, numerous of O’Brien’s close friends stopped into the show to wish him luck. Among the favorite guests were O’Brien’s long time friend and old colleague, Andy Richter and Will Ferrell who was splitting sides with his famous George W. Bush character. To cap the show off, The White stripes performed a unique version of “We Are Going to Be Friends”, followed by O’Brien announcing that despite rumors of his act being edited for the earlier show time it will still be as immature as it ever was.
Monday, October 5, 2009
9/5/09
While reading this journal I found myself agreeing and disagreeing with the authors about an equal amount. I agree with them that something needs to be done to keep print news papers around; however, I do not believe that we should bail them out. Referring back to our class discussion about this I have to agree with Joanna’s point about how the government should have absolutely no control over our news papers, if they bail them out then technically they would be in control of all news we receive (which really defeats the purpose of the papers since their main goal is to be the “watch dog” for the public). On top of not approving a bail out due to government control, we also physically do not have the money to bail out the papers right now.
It is depressing that daily news papers around the are going out of business or severely downsizing, but the idea of a full on shift to the internet is also an idea that I do not support. If we were to completely nullify physical papers then we would be completely discriminating against individuals who do not have the internet. I think sometimes Americans forget how advanced our country is and they forget to include the less fortunate in their vision of modern day America. Imagine if we did make the shift to all internet news and maybe a large disaster happens where all internet is lost, how would people get their news? If we move to internet how are we supposed to know which sites are credible and which ones are not? I think a good solution would be to move most of the major news papers on line, still keep enough to sell on the streets, and keep small town news papers around. I don’t believe that physical news papers will cease to exist in the future; I think that they will be dramatically altered.
It is depressing that daily news papers around the are going out of business or severely downsizing, but the idea of a full on shift to the internet is also an idea that I do not support. If we were to completely nullify physical papers then we would be completely discriminating against individuals who do not have the internet. I think sometimes Americans forget how advanced our country is and they forget to include the less fortunate in their vision of modern day America. Imagine if we did make the shift to all internet news and maybe a large disaster happens where all internet is lost, how would people get their news? If we move to internet how are we supposed to know which sites are credible and which ones are not? I think a good solution would be to move most of the major news papers on line, still keep enough to sell on the streets, and keep small town news papers around. I don’t believe that physical news papers will cease to exist in the future; I think that they will be dramatically altered.
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