Thursday, September 24, 2009

Chp. 5/6

Reading chapters 5 and 6 gave me flash backs to my debating days. More so in chapter 5. In this chapter the author talks about fairness and how as a reporter you have to be able to see both sides of an argument. As a reporter you have to put your personal bias aside and report a fair and balanced story. When I was in debate, an exercise we would do was write down your own views and bias to argue for example a presidential candidate and then our teacher would say "ok you are going to have to create a argument for the other candidate.
This was really hard to do. debate teaches you to be able to argue for any side not matter what your option is. The trick now is to take that skill and be able to put it down on paper.

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