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Journalism: Thursday, Period 4, Class 6
"Okay, pass up your reviews and I'll get to work giving them my criticism," Jonah said. He was practically cackling. He'd figured out his favorite part of being a teacher,"
"While i'm doing that, you're going to get started on your next article. That's right, we're doing another article. If you looked at your syllabus-" Jonah had still never passed those out and he probably wasn't going to by this point, "it would have told you we were doing something else, but I changed my mind. If you have a problem with that, write a letter to the editor and leave it by my office on Friday. Anyway, what we're focusing on this week is tabloid journalism."
"The word 'tabloid' technically refers to paper size. Instead of being a huge paper with folds all over the place, the sheets that make up a tabloid tend to be about half the size of a traditional newspaper and use more of a magazine layout. Pretty much nobody knows this anymore because the word has come to refer to the sleaziest, least journalistic kind of journalism there is. When most people think of a tabloid, they think of the National Enquirer, the New York Post, Weekly World News, and damn near every newspaper in England, where facts can be made up for the sake of a story, headlines are the ONLY important thing, and unidentified sources tend to be something you ate last night that's causing you to hallucinate now and that's good enough. They're the kind of news sources where, when you hear that somebody got in trouble for making stories up entirely, it doesn't surprise you."
"Now, don't get me wrong. Going for sensationalistic stories is one thing. It can get people reading your newspaper when that's an increasingly rare thing. But once you have the flashy story with the flashy headline, you have to back it up with real journalism. Find out what the facts are, report them, back it up with sources that actually exist. The trashy tabloids often don't bother with any of that. That's why they're called the 'gutter press.'"
"Today I'm going to let you see how easy it can be to be this kind of journalist. Pick a subject - someone you know, something you hate, I don't care - and write a profile on he, she, or it. Make up sources, quotes, and even basic facts about them to make for a better story. They have two siblings and you think it would be a better story if they were an only child? Run with it! Implicate them in a triple homicide? It's tabloid journalism, that's fair game! Talk about a building that's scheduled for demolition even though it was torn down a decade ago? As long as the building's in Iowa, nobody will ever know!"
"Write about me and you have detention. Get to work!"
"While i'm doing that, you're going to get started on your next article. That's right, we're doing another article. If you looked at your syllabus-" Jonah had still never passed those out and he probably wasn't going to by this point, "it would have told you we were doing something else, but I changed my mind. If you have a problem with that, write a letter to the editor and leave it by my office on Friday. Anyway, what we're focusing on this week is tabloid journalism."
"The word 'tabloid' technically refers to paper size. Instead of being a huge paper with folds all over the place, the sheets that make up a tabloid tend to be about half the size of a traditional newspaper and use more of a magazine layout. Pretty much nobody knows this anymore because the word has come to refer to the sleaziest, least journalistic kind of journalism there is. When most people think of a tabloid, they think of the National Enquirer, the New York Post, Weekly World News, and damn near every newspaper in England, where facts can be made up for the sake of a story, headlines are the ONLY important thing, and unidentified sources tend to be something you ate last night that's causing you to hallucinate now and that's good enough. They're the kind of news sources where, when you hear that somebody got in trouble for making stories up entirely, it doesn't surprise you."
"Now, don't get me wrong. Going for sensationalistic stories is one thing. It can get people reading your newspaper when that's an increasingly rare thing. But once you have the flashy story with the flashy headline, you have to back it up with real journalism. Find out what the facts are, report them, back it up with sources that actually exist. The trashy tabloids often don't bother with any of that. That's why they're called the 'gutter press.'"
"Today I'm going to let you see how easy it can be to be this kind of journalist. Pick a subject - someone you know, something you hate, I don't care - and write a profile on he, she, or it. Make up sources, quotes, and even basic facts about them to make for a better story. They have two siblings and you think it would be a better story if they were an only child? Run with it! Implicate them in a triple homicide? It's tabloid journalism, that's fair game! Talk about a building that's scheduled for demolition even though it was torn down a decade ago? As long as the building's in Iowa, nobody will ever know!"
"Write about me and you have detention. Get to work!"
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