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.

RSS Feeds

Can anyone explain to me in layman’s terms how to use RSS?  I know that it stands for Really Simple Syndication.  I know the gist of it, I just don’t understand how to use it.  And I’ve googled it far to many times and still don’t understand.

Comments would be nice!

Bad Blogger! Uh-oh!

I do not enjoy these long gaps between my postings, but there’s nothing I can really do.

There’s really no updates I have, I haven’t been following the news closely because I’m always working or studying.

I’m getting the Blackberry Tour this weekend so hopefully it will simplify my workload.

Maybe this weekend I’ll have time to post a few good lengthy pieces. Otherwise you can totally check out the blogs I’ve been posting for the website I work for.  Nice to see my name under them!

I love my job.

Yes, I’m going to shamelessly plug my new job.

But it truly is a wonderful website.

I work for www.we-care.com

And if you like online shopping, you will love this site.  It is a blend of the perfect marriage of shopping (which is always fun) and donating to your favorite charities (which I also love to do).

It is commission based, which means a percentage of a purchase at a partnering merchant site through our site (we have over a thousand merchants!) goes to a charity of your choice.  Best part of it all, you’re not even paying extra!  And we supply special coupons so you save even more on your favorite items.

Please check it out, it is a great organization, and I love being a part of the team.

D-Day 67-years ago today.

Click here for a photo slide show on how the Associated Press covered D-day 67 years ago.  Today is the anniversary of the infamous day.  It’s great to see these historical pictures.  We are losing the WWII generation and soon will no longer have them to retell their stories.  Their pictures and accounts of one of the world’s most trying times has at least been documented under a wide-range of media available to them at that time.

Take a look at the pictures and find some on your own, they are a look into our history, and we must never forget the sacrifice of our soldiers.