Most recent public comments by Student Rand Shannak https://nowcomment.com/users/18747 https://nowcomment.com/documents/43908?scroll_to=521480 https://nowcomment.com/documents/43908?scroll_to=521480 Sun, 15 May 2016 08:17:49 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/43908?scroll_to=521479 https://nowcomment.com/documents/43908?scroll_to=521479 Sun, 15 May 2016 08:16:27 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/44057?scroll_to=521477 https://nowcomment.com/documents/44057?scroll_to=521477 Sun, 15 May 2016 08:22:04 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/44057?scroll_to=521476 https://nowcomment.com/documents/44057?scroll_to=521476 Sun, 15 May 2016 08:21:12 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/44057?scroll_to=521475 https://nowcomment.com/documents/44057?scroll_to=521475 Sun, 15 May 2016 08:20:03 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/46236?scroll_to=521474 https://nowcomment.com/documents/46236?scroll_to=521474 Sun, 15 May 2016 08:19:26 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/46236?scroll_to=521473 https://nowcomment.com/documents/46236?scroll_to=521473 Sun, 15 May 2016 08:18:32 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/44649?scroll_to=520433 https://nowcomment.com/documents/44649?scroll_to=520433 Fri, 13 May 2016 07:53:10 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/46236?scroll_to=520429 https://nowcomment.com/documents/46236?scroll_to=520429 Yes, I agree, however, losing yourself in your devotion to someone or getting too close to someone will hinder the facts. Sun, 15 May 2016 08:18:32 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/46236?scroll_to=513197 https://nowcomment.com/documents/46236?scroll_to=513197 To be a journalist first is to invest your time and efforts to the unearthing facts of the occurrence/event/person you are investigating rather than focus on relationships or sensitivity. Sun, 15 May 2016 08:18:32 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/44650?scroll_to=513196 https://nowcomment.com/documents/44650?scroll_to=513196 McGinnis developed a close relationship with the accused murderer MacDonald. He is stepping into MacDonalds territory to achieve a sense of the setting and how MacDonalds perhaps acts within the setting being as it is so close to the prison. This excerpt displays McGinnis over-determination in investigating the story and retrieving as much insider information from MacDonald. By staying with him he has created a dangerously close relationship in order to not only hear what MacDonald must say about himself but observe him in his most intimate place. MacDonald is readily willing to provide McGinnis with the files perhaps because they help his case and put him in a positive light/give information that he wants McGinnis to know/mention in the book about him. Tue, 26 Apr 2016 07:24:59 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/43908?scroll_to=513195 https://nowcomment.com/documents/43908?scroll_to=513195 For their news article or alternate form of nonfiction writing (biography, autobiography, narrative, etc) that requires investigation, observation and acquisition of facts Tue, 26 Apr 2016 07:23:58 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/44649?scroll_to=511667 https://nowcomment.com/documents/44649?scroll_to=511667 This is also true. While putting your cards on the table will remove your leverage for some journalists taking the risk of getting the trust of their subject is worth the risk of losing the story entirely. This can be a very impressionable move on someone who you need to trust you, but has just as much of the risk of losing the subject and the story entirely. Fri, 13 May 2016 12:01:41 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/43908?scroll_to=511663 https://nowcomment.com/documents/43908?scroll_to=511663 They come off as having no time and no interest because they are entirely absorbed in the sorry they are currently pursuing; they have an obsessive quality when it comes to their work and neglect everything else because they feel constrained by time to get the best and most "insider" insight for their story. Tue, 26 Apr 2016 07:23:58 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/43908?scroll_to=510457 https://nowcomment.com/documents/43908?scroll_to=510457 Reporters are often illustrated as rumpled and untidy in movies because they are generally thought of as hard-working and determined, leading them to do anything to do the story and losing sleep over it causing them to come off disheveled because they have no time to maintain a high appearance. Tue, 26 Apr 2016 07:23:58 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/43908?scroll_to=510456 https://nowcomment.com/documents/43908?scroll_to=510456 It uses the environment/setting to depict the profession of being a reporter who shines the light on specific occurrences in this dark and gloomy world. Sun, 17 Apr 2016 07:26:59 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/43908?scroll_to=510455 https://nowcomment.com/documents/43908?scroll_to=510455 Generally in literature light represents the pure, "rightness" and good; whereas the dark is a representation of something that is wrongful or sinister. Sun, 15 May 2016 08:16:27 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/43907?scroll_to=510454 https://nowcomment.com/documents/43907?scroll_to=510454 Perhaps he hates to lose his creative freedom in his writing style Sun, 17 Apr 2016 07:25:28 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/43907?scroll_to=510453 https://nowcomment.com/documents/43907?scroll_to=510453 The reporter is not a rookie, but rather acts as a reporter on his level would by defying the structure/format imposed by the editor that restricts his writing. At this stage of the reporters career he resists the constraints imposed by the required manner of writing and wants to maintain his individuality in his writing style as any writer would want. Sun, 17 Apr 2016 07:23:48 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/43907?scroll_to=510452 https://nowcomment.com/documents/43907?scroll_to=510452 Crime * Sun, 17 Apr 2016 07:22:34 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/44649?scroll_to=510451 https://nowcomment.com/documents/44649?scroll_to=510451 It any case it's never a good idea to put all your cards on the table at once as it halts your input and role and you lose your leverage. That leverage is having someone dependent on what you may have left so that you can still utilize them and get the most out of them that you need as possible. Putting down all your cards extinguishes any sense of control or leverage you have in any given situation in which you need something from the "client". Fri, 20 May 2016 17:10:54 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/46235?scroll_to=505666 https://nowcomment.com/documents/46235?scroll_to=505666 Without friends, the biographer has no story. Sat, 07 May 2016 08:18:00 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/46235?scroll_to=505207 https://nowcomment.com/documents/46235?scroll_to=505207 Autobiographers will always sugarcoat their life story to make them stand out as a much better and more accomplished person than they really are. Humans have the tendency to be over confident of themselves. Also, nobody willingly opens up about the realities and truths of every detail of their lives, especially if it will put them in a bad light. It's easy for someone else to reveal those truths because it does not harm their persona, but everyone wants to display themselves in the best way possible, even in the worst situations. Sat, 02 Apr 2016 08:11:16 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/46235?scroll_to=505205 https://nowcomment.com/documents/46235?scroll_to=505205 A biography would suffer if its first loyalty to friends because the end product would be sugar coated, unrealistic and more like a compliment to the subject than a story. Sat, 07 May 2016 08:18:00 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/46232?scroll_to=505204 https://nowcomment.com/documents/46232?scroll_to=505204 Michael expects the biography to praise him and highlight his most noteworthy and positive characteristics and occurrences. The biographer seeks to bring to light the holistic image of Michael, unpleasant instances and negatives included. Sat, 21 May 2016 03:01:32 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/46232?scroll_to=505203 https://nowcomment.com/documents/46232?scroll_to=505203 By bufferring the biography the biographer eithermeans the subject is delaying it, or safeguarding it. Ensuring he is controlling the information and stories and protecting the truth. Sat, 02 Apr 2016 08:08:07 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/46229?scroll_to=505202 https://nowcomment.com/documents/46229?scroll_to=505202 There will be a confrontation because the reporter is there to acquire details, mostly intimate and personal from the subject who may be reserved and unwilling to share them.A confrontation has a negative implication that obtaining such information will not be through merry conversation, but may face rejection form the subject. Sat, 02 Apr 2016 08:07:27 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/46229?scroll_to=505201 https://nowcomment.com/documents/46229?scroll_to=505201 Biographies "smooth" out our lives means they take the details, events, emotions and every occurrence and flatten them into a story. They mesh occurrences to relate to one another, they take messy conversations and make them coherent, they take complex predicaments and make them simple through use of word. Sat, 02 Apr 2016 08:06:04 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/44121?scroll_to=499733 https://nowcomment.com/documents/44121?scroll_to=499733 Journalism has a strict style of writing. While writing is a form of art and expressionism in which the writer has his own style with which he is pleased, he must restrict his writing and abide it to the style demanded by the profession. While the writer may love to draw the image of the story with eccentric words and use of metaphors or similes, he must suppress his desire to do so and write in the manner that is required by his editors, thus limiting their creative expressions and literary abilities. Fri, 18 Mar 2016 09:33:13 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/44121?scroll_to=499732 https://nowcomment.com/documents/44121?scroll_to=499732 The reporter calls his editor a bastard because he had to alter and format his writing, eliminating his creative literary creativeness and skills to please him. The editor has stripped him of his creative writing freedom and he's dissatisfied with this as any writer who has to change their style to please others would be. He expects the editor to pay for his drink due to the fact that he has done the job just the way the editor wanted despite his own wishes to write how he would like and is not even getting paid well for it. Sat, 19 Mar 2016 08:21:46 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/44121?scroll_to=499731 https://nowcomment.com/documents/44121?scroll_to=499731 The second draft is less colorful and creative and more informational and direct providing the necessary information of who what where when why as a news story without the vivacious descriptions and dramatic style of a novel. Sat, 19 Mar 2016 08:18:46 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/44121?scroll_to=499729 https://nowcomment.com/documents/44121?scroll_to=499729 He discarded the story because of the style it is written in knowing the editor would reject a piece with such a literary style. News stories are not meant to be written in the manner of creative literature, rather should be simple, informational and straight to the point. Fri, 20 May 2016 17:20:30 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/44121?scroll_to=499726 https://nowcomment.com/documents/44121?scroll_to=499726 The copyboy has the impression that he's reading literature rather than a story because of the style in which it is written. It is written more as a literary story than in the style of a news article. The imagery and use of words are a literary technique. Fri, 20 May 2016 17:18:30 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/44058?scroll_to=495059 https://nowcomment.com/documents/44058?scroll_to=495059 When she says "that's not news" there is a sarcastic tone implying that it's been an already publicly known fact that she has been sleeping with both men for a long time. Fri, 11 Mar 2016 09:30:25 -0500 https://nowcomment.com/documents/44058?scroll_to=495058 https://nowcomment.com/documents/44058?scroll_to=495058 The reporter doesn't get that she made a joke and maintains the sense of seriousness and the smoke in the room emphasizes the obscurity of the situation and story. Fri, 11 Mar 2016 09:27:36 -0500 https://nowcomment.com/documents/44058?scroll_to=495056 https://nowcomment.com/documents/44058?scroll_to=495056 He needs to understand the peril of over-involvement in the characters of the story he's attempting to retrieve. Just because you empathize with them doesn't mean you have to become immersed in their lives. Sat, 12 Mar 2016 07:50:44 -0500 https://nowcomment.com/documents/44058?scroll_to=495055 https://nowcomment.com/documents/44058?scroll_to=495055 The reporters relationship with the story has grown to personal and the journalists are advising him that he's playing a dangerous role by doing so and needs to maintain his professionalism and can still get the story this way. Sat, 12 Mar 2016 07:49:07 -0500 https://nowcomment.com/documents/43908?scroll_to=483677 https://nowcomment.com/documents/43908?scroll_to=483677 Wed, 02 Mar 2016 09:35:34 -0500 https://nowcomment.com/documents/44057?scroll_to=481317 https://nowcomment.com/documents/44057?scroll_to=481317 It is important in news to be objective, so that the information does not vary/alter. Writing what he saw will plainly tell the facts. When people tell a story from what they saw you are getting what happened according to their feelings and memory, which is not reliable and unfair to the facts of the story. Also subjective information can vary from one person to another depending on situational and emotional factors that they endured during the event. Also people have selective memory, they may forget major parts that completely alter the story or make additions that they thought happened. It is like the game of telephone, everyone perceives, remembers and understands an event or situation differently and you cannot rely on eye testimony. The editor is looking for straightforward facts and facts only. News must be objective, not subjective. Thu, 19 May 2016 13:45:50 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/43909?scroll_to=481312 https://nowcomment.com/documents/43909?scroll_to=481312 This point is aligned with what I also had in mind. The editor has been there too, he had to undergo the same pressures as the reporter to scavenge for stories that are good enough to sell and at the same time abide to his superiors and do it their way. He is empathetic as he probably sees himself in the reporter. Mon, 29 Feb 2016 09:10:00 -0500 https://nowcomment.com/documents/43909?scroll_to=481310 https://nowcomment.com/documents/43909?scroll_to=481310 Editors only care to get the biggest stories and getting them promptly to sell. It seems they just need to serve to higher managers who pay their checks for making sure there is a paper for the next day with an enticing headline and breaking story that will bring in the money. What the story is about or how its written is not their main concern. They don't care for literary artists who engage in suspense, drama or mystery. They don't want people to write novels, they want people to write concise yet riveting news that will make the news company big bucks. Sun, 28 Feb 2016 22:00:39 -0500 https://nowcomment.com/documents/43909?scroll_to=481307 https://nowcomment.com/documents/43909?scroll_to=481307 There is no room for literature in the paper because you must address the facts and get straight to the point without coloring it with metaphors and smilies. People need to understand what happened with simple language rather than spent time searching for meaning and analyzing. Mon, 29 Feb 2016 09:09:20 -0500 https://nowcomment.com/documents/43908?scroll_to=481292 https://nowcomment.com/documents/43908?scroll_to=481292 Journalism lives for events, and journalism of certain eras becomes the defining moment of that era, which in this case was The Great Depression, the dark days in America. In such times people looked more to newspapers than before. Journalism shone a light on the dark days by spreading education, they faced the gloominess and when you are so concerned with a subject/event for a stretch of time it becomes of your profession, the dark and gloomy depression became of the profession of journalism. Mon, 29 Feb 2016 09:16:11 -0500 https://nowcomment.com/documents/43908?scroll_to=481246 https://nowcomment.com/documents/43908?scroll_to=481246 It shows that the purpose of the newsroom is to shine a light on news, to keep people out of the dark of the realities and occurrences in the world. Mon, 29 Feb 2016 09:14:40 -0500 https://nowcomment.com/documents/43908?scroll_to=481245 https://nowcomment.com/documents/43908?scroll_to=481245 Maybe the rightness and wrongness of his actions in the future of the story. What he would/wouldn't do as a journalist just to get the story. Sun, 15 May 2016 08:16:27 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/43908?scroll_to=481244 https://nowcomment.com/documents/43908?scroll_to=481244 "Downfunnelled light" depicts the image of a very narrow, filtered light in the newsroom (which generally back in the day was an enormous room with no windows). Such a light in a windowless room is a representation of journalism itself. It shows that journalism has a certain focus/angle in a dark and grimy area (the world, perhaps). Wed, 02 Mar 2016 09:35:34 -0500 https://nowcomment.com/documents/43903?scroll_to=481241 https://nowcomment.com/documents/43903?scroll_to=481241 rather than short to ejaculate in writing means the tone of whats being said is quick and sudden, and almost like it was written without second thought. Thu, 19 May 2016 07:17:36 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/43907?scroll_to=481239 https://nowcomment.com/documents/43907?scroll_to=481239 An editors job is the ensure the reporter a) gets the story and b) makes sure it is factual and riveting and that is essentially what the editor is doing. The editor is not treating the reporting in a way to be liked, but to make sure the reporter gets the news whatever means it takes to do so and formats it to depict a news story not a novel nor feature. Mon, 29 Feb 2016 09:08:29 -0500 https://nowcomment.com/documents/43907?scroll_to=481235 https://nowcomment.com/documents/43907?scroll_to=481235 This passage portrays the reporters thirst for a story, even if it doesn’t exist yet, even if the rime hasn’t happened but he knows who has the capacity to commit it he will ensure he has the means to do so just to go back with a story : “you would be the one to run out and borrow a pistol from the nearest policeman for them to use”. Thu, 19 May 2016 18:34:40 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/43903?scroll_to=456890 https://nowcomment.com/documents/43903?scroll_to=456890 A style that uses ejaculations intends to create short writings that tell a story thus engaging the readers interest without dragging on the story, Thu, 19 May 2016 07:17:36 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/43903?scroll_to=456887 https://nowcomment.com/documents/43903?scroll_to=456887 In the context of the story the “diurnal dogwatches” seem to be brief daily newspapers or releases and perhaps the different colors/editions represent different types of news (e.g finance, world, sports,etc). Fri, 05 Feb 2016 07:22:03 -0500