Journalism: Thursday, Period 4, Class 13

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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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Re: Take Notes [Class 13]

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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.