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− | I wonder if you're as fed up as I am with all the prophets of doom who have us living in a sick society wrapped up in selfish materialism. They sound like a line from the poem, The Shooting of Dan | + | I wonder if you're as fed up as I am with all the prophets of doom who have us living in a sick society wrapped up in selfish materialism. They sound like a line from the poem, The Shooting of Dan McGraw. You know the line. "Half dead things and a half dead world cling mad for the muck called gold." Well, as the song says, "It ain't necessarily so." There are any number of stories tucked away in the middle pages of our daily papers and even more that don't get printed at all about an America that's all around us. Every day, a different America than the one described by the doom criers. |
A journalism student learns that news stories are based on who, what, or where. For example, a 'who' story is one that's news because the person involved is famous or notorious. A 'where' story doesn't have to involve a famous person to be news it's the location that makes it newsworthy. A young man drives his car through a gate. He wasn't a well-known figure and hitting a gate isn't all that unusual but it's a story if it happened to be the White House gate. The 'what' story, of course, is about something that's happened. Some weeks ago the AP carried a 'what' story. | A journalism student learns that news stories are based on who, what, or where. For example, a 'who' story is one that's news because the person involved is famous or notorious. A 'where' story doesn't have to involve a famous person to be news it's the location that makes it newsworthy. A young man drives his car through a gate. He wasn't a well-known figure and hitting a gate isn't all that unusual but it's a story if it happened to be the White House gate. The 'what' story, of course, is about something that's happened. Some weeks ago the AP carried a 'what' story. | ||
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