Standing Ovation

Wednesday, March 9, 2011

In the article Non Stop News by Ken Auletta he quotes Peter Baker a White House correspondent for the Times saying: “When do you have time to call experts? When do you have time to sort through data and information and do your own research? Even with a well-staffed news organization, we are hostages to the non-stop, never-ending file-it-now, get-on-the Web, get-on the radio, get-on-the TV media environment.” He uses this quote after discussing the way news and the way news is covered has changed with modern technology. Everything now moves at a faster pace. There is no time to spend on any one piece of news following up on leads or even doing too much research. Let alone time for people to reflect upon the news items. No in depth thinking just a quick skim over the top. He compares reporters to hostages in this new way media news is covered. Which I find to be a fascinating way to make this claim because that’s probably how a lot of reporters are feeling now. A hostage situation would be fast paced and high intensity just like the news today seems. Hear about it and jump into the race to be the first to cover it in some media form. And now traditional news is few and far between todays more modern news where celebrities actions are right up there with important things happening in the world. So not only is the way the news is covered changing but also the kind of news that is being covered has changed.

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Welcome to our Eng 100 Blog “Standing Ovation”! The title of this blog refers to the audience of active readers we are creating by sharing our academic writing for Eng 100 with a larger group of students, instructors, academics, and just about anybody who chooses to follow our blog! When you write and post your reader responses here (and, later, as you write your essays for the course), I encourage you to use this audience to conceptualize who you are writing for and, most important, how to communicate your ideas so that this group of academic readers and writers can easily follow your line of thinking. Think about it this way: What do you need to explain and articulate in order for the other bloggers to understand your response to the essays we’ve read in class? What does your audience need to know about those essays and the authors who wrote them? And how can you show your readers, in writing, which ideas you add to these “conversations” that take place in the texts we study?
As students of Eng 100, you will use this blog to begin conversations with other academic writers on campus (students and instructors alike). We become active readers of each other’s writing when we comment on posts here. And, best of all, we are using this space to share ideas! I encourage you to use this blog to further think through the topics and writing strategies you will be introduced to this quarter. As always, be sure to give credit to those people whose ideas you borrow for your own thinking and writing (you should do this in the blog by commenting on their post, but you will also be required to cite what you borrow from your peers/instructors if and when it winds up in your essays. More details on that later).
Finally, keep in mind that writing to and for this audience is a good way to prepare for the panel of readers (faculty at WCC) who will be reading and assessing your writing portfolio at the end of the quarter. I hope that as a large group of active readers, we can better prepare each other for this experience. But, in the meantime, let’s have fun with it!