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Journalism: Thursday, Period 4, Class 9
"When you're putting together a newspaper," Jonah started the moment the last student stepped into the room, "the best headline, story, and picture go on the front page. If you're working in the tabloid format - the smaller, 'magazine' style of pages as opposed to your traditional long newspapers that fold over a few times - the middle is usually filled with business and classifieds, stuff that most people aren't going to bother looking at. It's an area your typical reader's never getting to anyway, so throw it in the middle where they don't have to deal with it!"
"But what about the back page? Well, depending on who your readers are, it's even more important than the front page, because that's where the sports section starts. And just like most things and people that focus on sports, it's insane! The cover story is on the back page and then you start flipping backwards through the paper. If your paper is 90 pages, the big stories are on 88 and 89. The most popular sport for the season takes up the mid-90s, and then it keeps falling until you get to major league soccer somewhere around page 87."
"The sports section used to be filled with statistics, news on player injuries and signings, and some analysis about either how good or how bad the home team is, literally depending on the day. But now it's all about steroids and other performance enhancing drugs. So that's what you're going to be writing about, too."
"Yesterday we had a bunch of harpy invasion on the island. And then when I got off the phone with my mother-in-law, we were attacked by mythological monsters! Since we don't have any sports around here, write about this like a sporting event instead. Recap any attacks you may have been in or seen from the safety of a window - but if you're writing about yourself, be sure to write in the third person and pretend that you're talking about someone else, just for the sake of the article - or just make crap up based on whatever you heard on the radio. If you managed to completely miss it, write about another time you saw people fighting something here. Give a basic description of the fight, give some analysis about why the person who won the fight did so while the monster lost it, and - most importantly - write about what kind of unfair disadvantages one side had over the other. Because that's what sells sports stories these days."
"Get to work!"
"But what about the back page? Well, depending on who your readers are, it's even more important than the front page, because that's where the sports section starts. And just like most things and people that focus on sports, it's insane! The cover story is on the back page and then you start flipping backwards through the paper. If your paper is 90 pages, the big stories are on 88 and 89. The most popular sport for the season takes up the mid-90s, and then it keeps falling until you get to major league soccer somewhere around page 87."
"The sports section used to be filled with statistics, news on player injuries and signings, and some analysis about either how good or how bad the home team is, literally depending on the day. But now it's all about steroids and other performance enhancing drugs. So that's what you're going to be writing about, too."
"Yesterday we had a bunch of harpy invasion on the island. And then when I got off the phone with my mother-in-law, we were attacked by mythological monsters! Since we don't have any sports around here, write about this like a sporting event instead. Recap any attacks you may have been in or seen from the safety of a window - but if you're writing about yourself, be sure to write in the third person and pretend that you're talking about someone else, just for the sake of the article - or just make crap up based on whatever you heard on the radio. If you managed to completely miss it, write about another time you saw people fighting something here. Give a basic description of the fight, give some analysis about why the person who won the fight did so while the monster lost it, and - most importantly - write about what kind of unfair disadvantages one side had over the other. Because that's what sells sports stories these days."
"Get to work!"
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Homework [Class 9]
handwavilyturned in your camera for last week's assignment, right?Describe and/or link to your photo or specifically note that you did not turn it in. Otherwise, it's all handwaved.
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Oh, yeah, you better believe he had a few good stories for that one.
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Some of their tailfeathers were quite possibly on fire. So what?
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That in and of itself, was a picture that told stories.
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