Political Article

Crisis in Libya - Libya Civil War 2011

Gadaffi's 42 year rule in Libya has attained plenty of Libyan citizens and other nations' attention. It's mainly a tribal issue and the fact that Libya was created for the convenience of European imperialism. Libya was always administered as two (unofficially three) separate areas due to tribal differences until those loosely Ottoman provinces were invaded by Italy. The eastern and coastal tribes marginalized the interior tribes and supported the king until Kadaffi (an interior tribe member) assumed control. His tribe is fighting to maintain the power he gave them. Nothing that the west should get involved in.

-Gadaffi
The major reason of the Libyan Civil War is the desire of the people of Libya to live with the freedom and liberty to live their lives. The people of Libya have lived under the iron fist, totalitarian, despotic rule of Muammar Muhammad al-Gaddafi for decades and want a different future.


-A young Libyan girl

Like most of the other Middle East and North African tyrants, Gadaffi rose to power during the appeasement presidency of Jimmy Carter. If it had not been for Carter, and the US had had a president like Reagan at that point, The Saddam Gadaffi Mubarak Khomenei regimes, would have never been given breathing room to sprout.

Journal #10

Monday- Finished video taping
Tuesday- Worked on three articles

Storyboard

Final Cut Review

Final Cut Movie Review


Robin Williams plays Alan, a 51-year-old man in a futuristic world whose career consists of cutting peoples’ life memories when they pass away. This is to be made into a presentation or a ‘Rememory’ to be shown to the deceased person’s family and friends. The ‘Zoe Eye’ invention is placed into the back of a newborn’s head. This item must be purchased beforehand.

This film’s camera angles are extraordinary and unreal. The cemetery scene really gives the audience a sense of grief when Alan puts the necklace onto the cemetery stone as the camera pans around to the back and gets a good front body view of Alan and his emotions.

The plot for Alan really starts to thicken when he takes on an assignment involving a well-known commercial lawyer named Bannister, whom just so happened to work for the leading manufacturer of ReMemory technology. His widow Jennifer (Stephanie Romanov of TV’s “Angel”) is the first person to ever successfully sue to have an employee’s chip removed from company storage, and those on the forefront against what they see as insidious invasion of privacy want to get their hands on it at all costs. Leading this charge is former Cutter and friend of Alan’s named Fletcher (Jim Caviezel), and he’s not afraid to resort to violence to get his hands on it, even if it means putting his old compatriot in harm’s way.

What should happen next is a blow-by-blow examination of the goods and evils of just this sort of technology. In an age where discussion of the Patriot Act and our very own personal liberties are thrust under a microscope in the face of global terrorism, the very idea of constant and all-pervasive surveillance isn’t too far out of the realm of possibility. But Naïm’s film plods forward with all the dramatic momentum of a carnival sideshow, and once you get past the eye-catching exterior there’s little of substance hiding behind the curtain. It doesn’t help that every time the director raises an intriguing idea or plot possibility; Bannister turns out to have been molesting his own daughter, while the emotionally cloistered Hakman is dating a woman (Mira Sorvino) he became attracted to while cutting another’s ReMemory.

I give this movie: 7/10

Journal #9

MONDAY- the group and myself planned out, discussed and worked on our photojournalism project. (Ethnic Backgrounds at SJC)
TUESDAY- Finished story board and started filming.
WEDNESDAY- Watched film 'Final Cut'
THURSDAY- Finished watching 'Final Cut' worked on movie review.

Journal #8

Monday April 4th 2011-

Ethics and Law

Laws draw lines between permissible and impermissible acts, but differences are not necessarily based on moral principles.
Laws can prohibit or mandate behavior through the power of enforcement (fines, sanctions).
Law is primarily a system for resolving disputes.

Ethics & law share an assumption that decisions should be based on reasoning, but the modes of reasoning may be far different.


Structure of the News




Typical TV Station Departments

Production
Promotion
Engineering
Sales
Programming
Accounting
Management


Where is the news?
Wire Services
Satellite Feeds
The Internet
Newspapers
Police Radio
Informants


The Internet
You know what this is and how to use it! The most important thing to consider when using internet sources to find or follow up on stories is SOURCING! Make sure you gather your information from reputable websites. We’ll talk more about this in class.

Newspapers
Newspapers are an excellent starting point for broadcast journalists because (unlike most broadcast media: TV, radio) newspapers focus on journalism to the exclusion of entertainment programming.

Radio
Professional broadcast newsrooms are constantly monitoring police frequencies in search of breaking stories related to crime or catastrophe.
Beyond crime and catastrophe, however, news radio, can provide a good starting point for a more in-depth investigative report

Dictionary says:
1) New information about anything.
2) Recent happenings.
3) Reports of such events, collectively.
4) A newspaper or broadcast news program.

Photo Journalism Project

Caf Food: An Unhealthy Choice


Purpose: To go into the SJC cafeteria and take pictures of students eating caf food and also showing how it is made and that it is an unhealthy solution for students at SJC.


Question: Do most students at SJC eat caf food on a daily basis and is it unhealthy for you?


Hypothesis: Most students at SJC eat caf food on a daily basis and it is not a healthy choice for young people.