fandomhigh | Journalism: Thursday, Period 4, Class 13

Jonah waited for the bell today. He didn't want to be interrupted as he was hitting his stride. "Every once in a while, you're going to find that for whatever reason, you have to kill a story. Even after you put in a lot of work, even after you've exhausted your resources, even after you've written the damn thing, your editor will come up to you and tell you that he's not going to run it, write something else, now get out of his office! Or something could come up to make you decide that now is not the time to run with it."

"I don't particularly want to read about zombies this week, so I'm killing your stories just like how SOMEBODY in this class tried to kill me last week! Instead, write something about the big news story this week: gremlin bites! Analysis, recapping who's been what, a quickie interview with a gremlin-bit person, whatever you want. But if anyone writes about my experience on Tuesday, then they get a detention! It's my class, and I get to control the content of the articles so there's no use complaining if you get a detention for that. Oh, and your deadline hasn't changed even though you have to write something different because of my whims. It's due by the end of the class period! Get to work!"

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React to having the zombie article junked, for better or for worse.

Feel free to pass notes or whatever. Jonah doesn't care today. You're just taking away from time you could be spending doing your work and that's going to be reflected in your grade. And Jonah will laugh at that.

But... Buffy actually did the work! And oh yeah, she'd also chopped off her teacher's appendages so maybe she'd just try to hide behind her hair here.

Claire hadn't really done that much work on the zombie article -- hi, not a crazy person, not going out when zombies are running around -- so she didn't actually care.

Anemone had actually written a half-way decent article about the zombies, so she was sulking slightly. Being a member of the undead for two days totally counted as undercover investigative journalism.

Rikku was going to eyeroll. Just not too obviously, or else she might get detention, and this week was prom and all.

Luckily, she had completely forgotten she was supposed to write an article about the zombies, so there wasn't too much work wasted or anything.

But... Amber had actually done a paper on the zombies, as much as she hated it. Whatever, she sat quietly and doodled in her notebook. She did not need detention this weekend.

The Gremlin bites were more fun to write about anyway. Not so much scary, as funny.

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