Ethical Decision Making

Scenario 1:
I would not read them or take them. I would ask her about the papers. I think it is unethical to look at somethin that is not yours. I do understand why a reporter would need to read them but I still believe it is unethical.
Scenario 2:
Yes I would.
I would do it because it is not right that people pay a business ownerto take care of the people they love and then turn around and mistreat the patients. I as a citizen would be outraged.
Scenario 3:
I would credit the written source. I would make sure the website was credible if it was I would credit the website.

Focus Story

The boy walked onto the field with butterflies of excitement, he loved the game. The rush of being on the field and the feeling he got when he made that big tackle.

Pete Stenhoff, 17, was that boy. Until the thrill of ramming his head into the ball carriers chest cracked his vertebrae in his spine. He is now confined to a wheelchair for life. He weighed 210 pounds; now he weighs 172 pounds. He didn’t graduate with his class but he is trying to get his diploma through correspondence courses.

This is not an uncommon injury. There are 20,000 injuries in high school football each year, 12 percent of them permanently disable the victims. Thirteen youths died last year. Thirty-five percent of the injuries are to the neck or head. Most critics blame the helmet.

“I knew the risks involved when I decided to play football,” Stenhoff adds, “I just wish I would have known just how bad it could be.”

Find That Lead

Spartan Daily-"Award-winning playwright speaks to theater students" 

This article started out with a Basic news lead- A summary lead-

Spartan Daily-"SJSU students' food and dance show some Pacific Island pride"

This article started out with a roundup lead.

Topical Blog Post #2

In the Spartan Daily on Thursday there was an article on the budget cuts that are happening to all CSU’s. “Protesters take stand on budget cuts that leave CSU with nothing left on its plate”.

Although I do agree that there has been a noticeable decrease in the amount of sections and different time periods for the classes I believe that there is still enough money to keep running a school. We have not been left with nothing on our plates! It is still hard to get classes but our state has a lot of debt and if cutting the school budgets is being cut then the students and administration should learn to work with it. A school is supposed to teach us how to deal with real life well this is real life. Budgets will be cut, programs will be cut, and people will be fired. It is not fair but that is the world. The economy is not at its peak and because of that there will be certain fields that suffer, in reality all fields will suffer because of the economy. Again it would not be fair if the schools were the only institution that was not affected. I believe that the budget cuts will show the CSU’s who really wants to graduate and which students really want to do well in the system

Broadcast Style Exercise-Revised

We all like a Cinderella story, we thought we had that story this Sunday at the Nike Women's Marathon in San Francisco. A non-elite runner ran the fastest time and thought she had won the race.

Arien O’Connell, knew it was her race when she started that morning, but she did not list herself as an elite runner. Because of this the officials dismissed her case and gave her winning title to an elite runner. 

Dan Hirsch said, if you’re feeling like you’re going to be a leader, you should be in the elite package. According to O’Connell she feels as if the association is saying it is her fault because she was being modest. Because the association had already declared the winner, O’Connell will not be our Cinderella.

Personal Meditations

As a little girl I only lost one person I loved, my great-grandmother, and yet I never realized how short life was. As I enter into my mid-twenties I see death and sickness all around me. Parents have cancer, heart attack, seizures and yet the sickness and death do not stop at the old. Their are children with bone cancer and leukemia. I was in two nearly fatal car accidents within a year of each other. It is amazing to think of how many things I have done in my life that God has saved me from. I always thought that life was such a happy wonderful thing to live, how niave youth is. Now that I am older I realize that life has happy moments and a person needs to cherish those moments in the times of sadness. Because those happy moments and God are the only thing that will get you through the sadness of this world. The brevity of life is something to wonder at.

InStyle

InStyle is a magazine that focuses on the styes that are "right now." The magazine focuses on high fashion that can be brought to normal women. They tell their target audience, women 18-35, how to achieve the hairstyles that the stars are wearing, and how to dress like the stars. They give tips on buying certain products, they will show you how to achieve a look with clothing that looks similar but is not a designer brand. The magazine writers treat their readers like friends, they write as if they are talking to you. It is a very personal writing style. Also, they give tips referencing experts so that you as the reader know that their sources are credible. The magazine is targeted at older women but it also reaches the younger crowds who keep up to date with all of the latest trends. This magazine keeps the trends going by giving tips on how to get the look for a lesser price tag.

http://www.instyle.com/instyle/

Got what it takes to be a reporter?

I got a 23.

I thought this was really interesting, because although all my answers were answered truthfully I do not believe that it reflected me at all. I do not want to be a journalist, first because that is not who I am and secondly because I do not think I would be very good at it. So I really do no think that this was a very good evaluation of myself and journalism.

Election Day

This was my second time voting for a presidential candidate. I voted in Morgan Hill in a church. I voted on election day, I was supposed to vote by mail but the forms were never sent to me so I had to go to a polling place. The last source I went to was a local news channel but it is usually Fox news. I believe that the news coverage of the election is about right, it is overdone, and everyone is saying the exact same thing as everyone does every four years. The election news source that worked best for me was Fox News it is the most conservative news outlet in my opinion.