To get to the Austin American-Statesman - click the link and then put in the user name and password - you might as well bookmark the link.
The user name is MAC-J
The password is Knight1!
Choose either 1A or 1B and respond to one.
See story at the top of A1.
1A. What decision has Mike Perrin known about since Labor Day? Why was this decision made? What specific changes have so many folks at UT unhappy? Why are they so happy about Perrin's new job placement?
See story beneath the debate photo on A1
1B. How was yesterday's presidential debate formatted to help longshot candidates? How was Donald Trump on center stage even when he was not yet on center stage?
See story to the left of the debate picture on A1.
2. Why was the CIA director on the UT campus yesterday? What larger trend in government led to yesterday's announcement at the Bass Lecture Hall? How can the public access the documents mentioned in the story? What is a PDB and why is it such an important document?
See story and sidebar story on the top of A2
3. What did Hungarian security forces do Wednesday that has human rights groups outraged? What alternate routes are their targets forced to consider and why are those routes also not good options (don't forget to take a look at the sidebar story)?
See story on the right side of page B1
4. Why was a 14-year-old McCarthur High School student detained and handcuffed yesterday? What actions did school officials take on Monday and how did they defend their actions? What was the response of half a million people and President Obama? Why do some in Irving fear that this action is connected to a city council resolution passed last spring?
ESSAY QUESTION
Today's essay question deals with the situation in Irving. The story and how it has played out made me think of two larger issues in journalism. First of all, like a lot of people, I first encountered the story through social media when one of my former students post this video to her Facebook feed. The Twitter feed was amazing in itself. Props to cartoonist Mike Luckovich for his editorial cartoon on the subject, which I think is excellent.
The whole thing had me wondering about the role a print newspaper plays in a story that goes viral before the print edition comes out.
How did you first learn of this story? Do you think the social media coverage of the story is as reliable and a fair to all parties as the story in the traditional newspaper? Explain your answer.
The other thing that surprised me was where the story ran in the paper. On B1, a secondary story placement on the local news page.
Based on the news value of the story, do you agree with this placement why or why not? If you were the managing editor or the news editor, where would you have placed the story? Why?
EXTRA CREDIT
We spent a bit of time talking about the controversial photo of a man falling from the World Trade Center towers that was first published in the 9/12/01 New York Times and elsewhere. I was talking about the photo with a colleague at Bowie High School yesterday, and he shared with me that there has been a great deal written about that photo and how it has changed people's lives.
You may not want to learn about it. That's cool if you don't, but if you would like to know the whole story (and earn some extra credit), read the two stories below and then write post a separate response to your blog.
Once you click the link, you will have to put in your email address for access to the story. Please use the email address you used to create your blog. This is a long story, but I think it is a worthwhile read.
http://classics.esquire.com/the-falling-man/
If you want to read more, there are a couple of follow up stories on the one from above. Here are the links:
http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/news/a10891/the-falling-man-10-years-later-6406030/http://www.mediaethicsmagazine.com/index.php/browse-back-issues/144-fall-2012/3998654-case-ten-years-of-watching-falling-man
Choose either 1A or 1B and respond to one.
See story at the top of A1.
1A. What decision has Mike Perrin known about since Labor Day? Why was this decision made? What specific changes have so many folks at UT unhappy? Why are they so happy about Perrin's new job placement?
See story beneath the debate photo on A1
1B. How was yesterday's presidential debate formatted to help longshot candidates? How was Donald Trump on center stage even when he was not yet on center stage?
2. Why was the CIA director on the UT campus yesterday? What larger trend in government led to yesterday's announcement at the Bass Lecture Hall? How can the public access the documents mentioned in the story? What is a PDB and why is it such an important document?
See story and sidebar story on the top of A2
3. What did Hungarian security forces do Wednesday that has human rights groups outraged? What alternate routes are their targets forced to consider and why are those routes also not good options (don't forget to take a look at the sidebar story)?
See story on the right side of page B1
4. Why was a 14-year-old McCarthur High School student detained and handcuffed yesterday? What actions did school officials take on Monday and how did they defend their actions? What was the response of half a million people and President Obama? Why do some in Irving fear that this action is connected to a city council resolution passed last spring?
ESSAY QUESTION
Today's essay question deals with the situation in Irving. The story and how it has played out made me think of two larger issues in journalism. First of all, like a lot of people, I first encountered the story through social media when one of my former students post this video to her Facebook feed. The Twitter feed was amazing in itself. Props to cartoonist Mike Luckovich for his editorial cartoon on the subject, which I think is excellent.
The whole thing had me wondering about the role a print newspaper plays in a story that goes viral before the print edition comes out.
How did you first learn of this story? Do you think the social media coverage of the story is as reliable and a fair to all parties as the story in the traditional newspaper? Explain your answer.
The other thing that surprised me was where the story ran in the paper. On B1, a secondary story placement on the local news page.
Based on the news value of the story, do you agree with this placement why or why not? If you were the managing editor or the news editor, where would you have placed the story? Why?
EXTRA CREDIT
We spent a bit of time talking about the controversial photo of a man falling from the World Trade Center towers that was first published in the 9/12/01 New York Times and elsewhere. I was talking about the photo with a colleague at Bowie High School yesterday, and he shared with me that there has been a great deal written about that photo and how it has changed people's lives.
You may not want to learn about it. That's cool if you don't, but if you would like to know the whole story (and earn some extra credit), read the two stories below and then write post a separate response to your blog.
Once you click the link, you will have to put in your email address for access to the story. Please use the email address you used to create your blog. This is a long story, but I think it is a worthwhile read.
http://classics.esquire.com/the-falling-man/
If you want to read more, there are a couple of follow up stories on the one from above. Here are the links:
http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/news/a10891/the-falling-man-10-years-later-6406030/http://www.mediaethicsmagazine.com/index.php/browse-back-issues/144-fall-2012/3998654-case-ten-years-of-watching-falling-man
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