Standing Ovation: Non-stop news

Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Non-stop news

“When journalists call you to discuss a story, it’s not because they’re interested in having a discussion. They’re interested in a response. And the need to file five times a day encourages this.”

This passage comes from Anita Dunn and is about how when a reporter calls the White House for a story they only want short little sound bites and not necessarily the context of the story. I think that it is interesting that some journalists are filing at least 5 times a day. With this kind of fast paced multiple filing it doesn’t leave journalist much time to do more research and find objective facts about their story. I think that this relates to the article as a whole because it is one of the repercussions of the fast paced 24 hr. news cycle.

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giantfingers85March 9, 2011 at 4:41 PM
I think it's also interesting to look at it as the journalists aren't asking the questions for the answers particularly, but more poking for a reaction that compliments their angle on a story.
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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?
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