Come one, come all, bring the kids too...Occupied Wall Street is now a family event

In a recent report by Fox Occupied Wall Street, has now become a family event. Reporters have seen an incline of children as young as 1 year old. In response to this the members of Occupied Wall Street has made Zuccotti Park more kid friendly, with tents and clowns to entertain the children. This incline is due to the incline of single mothers with children who support Occupied Wall Street and its cause. Being a single mom is hard enough but in the times we live in it makes it all the more difficult for one to raise a child.

Chapter 5 responce

As America moves into global expansion in the hopes of becoming a global power, journalism follows suet. The Spanish -American War was one of the least noted of the many wars that was waged but it had an effect on the people, well to me it sparked an idea to use the voice that journalism has to lead people like sheep. Journalism’s voice is meant for the people but that voice can just as easily be used to lead them astray. In order for America to expand it needed its people to support it, and journalism was used as its way to do this. The drawing by Frederic Remington of women being forced to submit to strip searches, this simple picture and a few other indents like the sinking of the U.S.S Maine by a suppose Spanish mine and the $50,000 for the person responsible for the sinking. With the outraged public the United States government responded the only way they knew and wanted to respond with war. The saying “history repeats itself” was right September 11^th 2001 was the most recent even that kind of tactic was used. With the pain of millions Americans calling for the heads of who, caused this event the government was given a “blank check” by the people this came about by posting in several papers what I like to call “who done it” posting. Eventually the Iraq war sparked and still to this day we still are fighting the war eight years later.  

Article response: Rallies Sweep the Globe Protest Ecomic Polices

Occupy Wall Street encampment in Manhattan has become a major moment across the globe. This is because all over the world there is always the “little guy” being bullied by the “big bully” and it’s about time that the “little guy” stood up. This new revelation started out very small then blew up in different places for example “In Rome on Saturday, a rally thick with tension spread over several miles” then in “ Chicago, about 175 people were arrested at about 1 a.m. on Sunday after refusing to leave Grant Park before the 11 p.m. closing time”. Though they are met with conflict by the police or other authorities of similar power, they still stayed strong and fought back. In New York they were locked in a bank lobby, the reason for this was to help control the crowds, in my opinion you don’t lock people hundreds of angry people in a small space; for the same reason you don’t lock and angry tiger in a cage and stick your head in its mouth. It won’t turn out well, this only came to create an problem like it did for one lady named Sandi Bernard “who is 59 and was visiting from Waldorf, Md. while wondering if she would have trouble making the 8 p.m. curtain call for “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark.” I am still wondering how this turn out will and what will this lead to? My hope is that Occupy Wall Street will change the way business deal with people and finally bring some respect to the middle class and the lower class.

Chapter 2 of Mightier than the Sword response

Slavery was the main reason why the civil war was fought; it was the north who wanted slavery to be abolished and the south wanted slaves for cheap labor so they can make a profit off of their crops. Like many wars to come people had their opinions about it journalism was their voice and “The Liberator” it was written by both white and black journalist alike. The most important people were Rev.Elijah P. Love Joy he was a Journalistic Martyr and William Lloyd Garrison and he was radical abolitionist editor. The Liberator was mainly a paper that was printed as a way to help abolish slavery. Even on the nameplate it showed African –Americans being traded and sold on the auction block like horses and cattle. This paper gave even African-Americans a chance to publish their work, even though the first black news paper was published in the north and its main goal was to again abolish slavery. It was called the “Freedom’s Journal” and it was first published in New York City in 1827. The efforts of the abolish movement responded to the civil war and the civil war was a response to economic growth. The economic growth was a response to the two half’s of the United States developing in two different ways, the north moved into an industrial stage while the south stayed the same well mostly. This created so many problems for many people but intern it opened doors for many people to change the world with news and journalism.

Chapter 4 in Elements of Journalism response

Chapter 4 reminded  me of a movie I had seen  a few years back called “Shattered Glass” it was about a reporter named Stephen Glass he was born 1972 and he was an American and a former journalist, known best for serial fraud in his articles. Over a three-year period as a young rising star at The New Republic from 1995 to 1998, he fabricated quotations, sources, and even entire events in articles he wrote for that magazine and others. He was fired when his deceptions came to light. This chapter basically spoke about he did wrong, and how he broke all the rules that journalist follow don’t fabricate stories or facts, don’t deceive the audience, be transparent as possible about your methods and motives, rely on your own original reporting, and exercise humility. This in my opinion is a bad journalism what Stephen Glass did but again he added things to stories that did not happen or he completely made up a story. This leads to the second point in chapter 4 do not deceive the public counts on the news to know what is happening around them, sometimes around the world what if we were under attack by another country we would not know until missile blows up half the country. Transparency to me is the most important thing to posses when you write. If people can’t understand what you write, it won’t matter if it is true or false. Transparency can mean the difference between a really good story and a bad one; sometimes it makes a bad story good. It can help get the “message” across to the reader how this is done is up the reporter.   

700 aressted on protest

The lead that I picked up from a protester came true, but the choice to not cover was a good one. Seven hundred people were arrested, when they attempted to cross the Brooklyn Bridge to protest. I wonder if Trevor went to protest and I hope he is ok. Knowing what happed and it is easy to read about it and feel sorry for all those people who got arrested, but it is a different story when you talked to one of them and see the human in at least one of them. It makes you think it makes you feel what they feel that they are protesting because something is wrong, someone is doing something wrong to make “normal” humans band together for a cause.

It’s a different point of view when a human element is added to the equation. It’s bad that the police had to arrest seven hundred and eighty people nearly one thousand hard working Americans. Over something that millions of Americans face every day, why are Wall Street messing things up? Why are gas prices going up? Why are things they way they are? Why are people who we trust to stabilize our economy doing such as bad job? These people asked themselves those questions, and decided to do something about it. But in the end it ended it people get arrested, and almost nothing gets done.

Police Arrest More Than 700 Protesters on Brooklyn Bridge

The lead that I picked up from a protester came true, but the choice to not cover was a good one. Seven hundred people were arrested, when they attempted to cross the Brooklyn Bridge to protest. I wonder if Trevor went to protest and I hope he is ok. Knowing what happed and it is easy to read about it and feel sorry for all those people who got arrested, but it is a different story when you talked to one of them and see the human in at least one of them. It makes you think it makes you feel what they feel that they are protesting because something is wrong, someone is doing something wrong to make “normal” humans band together for a cause.

It’s a different point of view when a human element is added to the equation. It’s bad that the police had to arrest seven hundred and eighty people nearly one thousand hard working Americans. Over something that millions of Americans face every day, why are Wall Street messing things up? Why are gas prices going up? Why are things they way they are? Why are people who we trust to stabilize our economy doing such as bad job? These people asked themselves those questions, and decided to do something about it. But in the end it ended it people get arrested, and almost nothing gets done.