Newspaper Mistakes that I made
Mar. 15th, 2009 01:54 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
isaacsapphireOk, last semester I was forced to take Newspaper, so I had to do some articles for the blasted student paper. I got to do the national news section once, and it just happened to be for the edition right after the election, so I actually got to be the one to say that Obama won. I'm sure that'll be one for the grandkids (grandnephews more like). I'm pretty proud of that column, except there was about one word and a comma that I wanted to take out, but I guess that's not bad. Still proud of my opportunity to slant the news the way *I* thought it should go for once.
"In Arizona, an eight year old boy with no history of behavior problems has been accused of the premeditated murder of his father and a male friend of the father. Domestic violence calls had been placed from the home previously."
Yeah, totally slanted it to make it look like the kid did it in self-defense, because that's my interpretation and I sincerely think that kids very rarely kill for no good reason. It's awesome how much of news is opinion, even when it doesn't look like it at all. (I only had so much space *looks innocent*) But yeah, that's kind of a side issue.
I also mentioned developments in the case of Lorei Drew and gay marriage prohibitions made or not made in the election (no news sources seemed to know that the Connecticut vote about conniving a constitutional convention was really about gay marriage.) So it was cool getting to put in my own pets into the paper. The Lori Drew thing is a personal concern because something similar to what she did was done to one of my friends. Thankfully he didn't kill himself, but it did serious psychological damage.
Then there was the article about ways to get around without a car and I completely failed to remember that a lot of churches have Sunday morning vans they pick people up with (it's a Christian college.)
Or in the same article about how I said there was a Blockbuster in walking distance when I didn't realize that it had gone out of business a year ago.
What I'm mad about is that I missed something in my article on Product(red) I failed to realize that The Killers do a Christmas song for them every year and last year's (the one I would have been writing about) was really good AND would have gone over well with the readership. I had such a pain with that article because I really wasn't enthusiastic about any of the products I was pimping, but I could have really gotten behind this and people might have actually gone out and bought it. Except I didn't know.
"In Arizona, an eight year old boy with no history of behavior problems has been accused of the premeditated murder of his father and a male friend of the father. Domestic violence calls had been placed from the home previously."
Yeah, totally slanted it to make it look like the kid did it in self-defense, because that's my interpretation and I sincerely think that kids very rarely kill for no good reason. It's awesome how much of news is opinion, even when it doesn't look like it at all. (I only had so much space *looks innocent*) But yeah, that's kind of a side issue.
I also mentioned developments in the case of Lorei Drew and gay marriage prohibitions made or not made in the election (no news sources seemed to know that the Connecticut vote about conniving a constitutional convention was really about gay marriage.) So it was cool getting to put in my own pets into the paper. The Lori Drew thing is a personal concern because something similar to what she did was done to one of my friends. Thankfully he didn't kill himself, but it did serious psychological damage.
Then there was the article about ways to get around without a car and I completely failed to remember that a lot of churches have Sunday morning vans they pick people up with (it's a Christian college.)
Or in the same article about how I said there was a Blockbuster in walking distance when I didn't realize that it had gone out of business a year ago.
What I'm mad about is that I missed something in my article on Product(red) I failed to realize that The Killers do a Christmas song for them every year and last year's (the one I would have been writing about) was really good AND would have gone over well with the readership. I had such a pain with that article because I really wasn't enthusiastic about any of the products I was pimping, but I could have really gotten behind this and people might have actually gone out and bought it. Except I didn't know.
