Journalist

dishonestly used rhetoric to persuade their readers of an uplifting story about a man’s humanitarian mission in Pakistan to public as nonfiction, which brought him enormous success and Mortensen public attention. However, it has been revealed by the journalist Jon Krakauer in his publication Three Cups of Deceit, that the book Mortenson and Relin conceived is just a “compelling creation myth” (Krakauer 6). The book made false yet rhetorical statements…

allegiance and other salty topics with humor. Journalists must use caution when interjecting their own opinions into their news reports, as well as revealing their political views to their audience, so they do not lose their credibility or appear bias in their reporting (Dominick 2013). When McAvoy is pinned down to answer a question regarding the why the US is the greatest country, he ultimately lets loose and offers a glimpse of the pent-up journalist inside the “politically correct” anchor…

When working in the news writing industry, you must be constantly up to date on everything that is going on in the world. My discipline includes writing news stories and media writing. In order to give trustworthy news to the people, you must use trustworthy sources. There are two types of news today; unplanned and planned news. When reporting on planned news it is most fitting to use authoritative sources. “A scholarly, or authoritative, publication is one in which the content is written by…

Although school uniforms are becoming big as many schools start adopting them, should they be in schools? Well, according to the article “Dress for Success: Public Uniforms” By Tamar Lewin a journalist for The New York Times. “In Miami 196 out of 328 public schools are required to wear uniforms.” 196 public schools! Now I don’t know about you, but to me that’s a huge number. There are 328 public schools in Miami, but 196 is about ⅓ of 328 and this article was published in 2016 so in 2 years how…

It was both comedic and dramatic and held my attention the entire film. It gave me a renewed respect for journalists and crew members that brave dangerous scenarios and territories all in the name of getting the story to the public. It’s also a valid reminder that our technological advances have made our news coverage of war far superior. The events of September…

No Room for First Responders September 11th 2001, two-thousand nine hundred and ninety six people lost their lives. Three hundred and forty three of them were firefighters. Michael Burke, a Wall Street Journalist who is a brother and a son to a firemen, is furious and offended that the families of the first responders were not invited to the 10th anniversary remembrance. By writing this, Burke’s goal is to put pressure on the New York City Mayor, Mike Bloomberg. Also, Burke wanted to leverage…

cited in Patching and Hirst, 2014: 202). This problem of rushing to be the first is more severe in social media, where the amateurs lack the access to varied sources and the ability to verify the information. Secondly, the comments from the citizen journalists in social media are…

Both Sides of the Story: Military Intervention In Protecting Human Rights Through the analysis of many scholarly publications, it is clear that there is a debatable concern about the ethical act of military intervening to protect human rights. Either that a people appeal to consequentialism or deontologist, some people believe that intervention may strip Human rights since some people believe that without intervention some nations would have been stripped of their human rights and the…

English Romantic journalists looking for the abnormal and pleasant soon started to consolidate Oriental topics and subjects into their works. Numerous researchers consider William Beckford's novel Vathek (1786) a point of interest of Orientalism. An Eastern sentiment, it is…

Reading Journal Unit 4-6 In Chapter four, Gandhian Principles of Nonviolence, explored principle of Ahimsa and Satyagraha. To begin with, Ahimsa means nonviolence, and Satyagraha means truth force (Nojeim M. J., 2004). According to text, “we do not practice Ahimsa if we love only those who loves us,” so nonviolence practice was kind words, thoughts and actions (Nojeim M. J., 2004). On page 95, the author says, Satyagraha was not intending to prevail over an opponent, but to prevail over the…