Please…help

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/long_beach_surfer_missing_in_indonesia_0KWbngtAnLnOnJKuPqmPQK

Hey everyone,

I was wondering if you guys could take a second to send some thoughts and prayers that they find Daniel Bobis, a man from Long Island, who went missing in Indonesia while surfing the other day.

He used to teach math at my high school and I remember my friends having him as a teacher and loving him and they really missed him when he left to go teach at Long Beach.  Please keep him and his family in your thoughts, and hope that he miraculously comes home safely.

Murdoch’s Attack.

So, Rupert Murdoch, the Fox Media Mogul and center of the ongoing phone hack scandal, was attacked at his hearing, approximately 10 minutes ago. A man walked up to 80-year-old Murdoch and hit him with what looks like a pie in his face. Wendi Murdoch, Rupert’s wife, got up and slammed the attacker. The British police arrested the attacked.

So when did pieing someone in the face result in arrest?
And how come the media is not in a frenzy over the fact of the whistle-blower of the hacking scandal is dead? The police say it’s coincidence but how can you trust Scotland Yard and the British police when the chief resigned over this scandal?

I wish I had more power as an aspiring journalist to go after this case. So interesting! Plus, even tough I’ve pretty much made it clear my distaste for Fox News, i believe I can write as neutral as a story as possible.

This is truly developing like a Watergate scenario.

My latest article! Beatlemania!

If you like the Beatles, I covered a concert in my town of the Cast of Beatlemania.  I think I got some really nice pictures too!

I had so much fun covering this!

Click here!

Good News!

Two pieces of good news:

Number 1: I’m updating!

Number 2: I love my internship, no…REALLY love it!

Check this out:

http://www.we-care.com/blog/?p=1530

How amazing?!

It’s a dangerous world out there.

A citizen is arrested for taking a video of police on her front yard.  Considered citizen journalism, how do you feel about her arrest?  Was it lawful?

It’s a difficult situation because on one hand you have a woman who seeks to expose a possible issue at hand, the racial profiling.  On the other hands, the police are trying to keep the public safe, the person pulled over could be potentially dangerous, so it would seem like a good idea that the woman comply with police requests to stay back.  But she didn’t and that’s how the altercation rose.

What do you think about it?

Article is here:

http://www.examiner.com/technology-in-national/citizen-journalist-arrested-for-recording-police-stop-from-her-front-yard

There’s a wonderful organization called the Journalists for Human Rights.  Maybe I should bring this up to them. (I found this on Citizen’s Journalism on twitter)

Latest Article

Here is my latest article for Patch.

Click here for the goodies!  Please let me know what you think!

How Am I Doing?

Here’s a link to the website I work for blog posts.  I’ve been asked to write a few and you can read them.  They’ll have my name on the bottom of the post.  Check them out and give me feedback, I’d really appreciate it!

 

http://www.we-care.com/blog/

I like the sound of it.

Wow, things have been so hectic in my corner of the ring lately. Working full-time, spending the first several hours of getting home from work doing my online course homework, and trying to fit in a little leisure time. I also am covering another event for Patch.com this weekend, and I’m really excited about it.

I just wanted to post so readers don’t think I’ve abandoned my blog. That wouldn’t be the case. Writing is therapeutic for me.

The worst tweet yet…

Fox News

Authorities say suspect carrying suspicious package near Pentagon is Marine Corps reservist; FBI says substance inside backpack was ‘inert.’

 

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They meant to say that the suspect is in the custody of the Marine Corps reservist.  However, in the 140 character shuffle they batched it up and made it sound like the suspect is actually IN the Marine Corp…OOF!

 

Developing News: Pentagon

Breaking News on Twitter.

It’s a little difficult to see, but as I logged on to Twitter I noticed “Pentagon” was a “Trending Topic.”

So my natural curiosity and underlying fear of something catastrophic drove me to click on it.

My J2 professor told me that news never breaks, because it is continual.  So for the sake of being correct, here’s the developing Tweets of what is going on.

Look in the discrepancy in the major news.  What is going on exactly in this situation.  Two seconds later after I grabbed this screenshot Breaking News posted:

• BreakingNewsBreaking News
• Al-Qaida-related statements, backpack with ammonium nitrate and spent 9mm shells found in Pentagon suspicious vehicle http://nyp.st/kO5oUF

First off, I hope to goodness that nothing else like this will happen today, or for as long as I live.

Second of all, I know better than to trust the first news I hear because I’ve been trained to.  Not many other people do.  This also applies to selective exposure and selective perception.  People chose where they want to get their information and what they want to have their information say.  So one news story can be interpreted many ways, and often people don’t try to find new developments.

I urge people to expand their horizons a little bit.  I read articles from news establishments I hate, but I feel it helps keep me more objective and when I do write an opinion piece, at least I can really see things from both sides.

Let’s hope today we can end smiling.