Blogs 8 & 9

Public relations and Journalism have become very morphed together. All journalism can really report is what their corporate office will allow. If they break news on someone who places a expensive advertisement in the paper each week, chances are it will never make it to publish. In the movie it talked a lot about how advertisement and the endorsers of the paper really control what is in it and not the journalists themselves. This i believe is true because you'll never see an advertisement for Subway in the same paper that just published an article on a Subway that was overrun with mice and still is still open. It has become that journalism is less truth and more of what public relations would like to have you know. We also discussed in class about how the journalists are forbidden to have any campaign propaganda on their vehicles or in their yards because it would link the paper to a biased opinion. What happened to freedom of speech if journalists cant even voice their own opinion in their own yard??

Blog 7

The Website I looked at was The Columbian on March 12. The Main story was titled "Goldberg Inspires Gizmos" A story about kids at Clark College kids "golfing" with different things they had constructed from sticks, dominos, mousetraps and a number of other things

Why Should I care?

I might care because the article is about Clark College Students. This could also be considered an entertainment story. It isn't really hard news so it isn't the type of thing you would really care that much about it just might be fun to read.

Why are they doing this?

They are in Clark's Engineering Club and they wanted to show off their new learned skills and apply what they have learned over the quarter.

Photos
Kids in the Penguin Student Lounge

Extras
Latest Local News and Blogs

Links
Just advertisments and Links to other stories

Blog 3 NPR

As I listen to NPR online on March 12. I noticed they used a lot off quotes with support behind them. They talked a lot about the campaign. Most of the quotes they used were clips from the candidate's themselves. They also used quotes from supporters of each candidate. They also talked about senators and their potential choices in the presidential race.