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Wednesday, July 13th, 2011An Ethical Dilemma & Mom & Dad
Friday, July 1st, 2011Nope.
Date: Tue Jun 28 10:52:39 EDT 2011
From: [Spring MEDP292 Student]@aol.com
Subject: Campus MovieFest Article
To: “Greggory W Morris” <gmorris@hunter.cuny.edu>
Hello Professor,A girl I interviewed, named [Anonymous], for her participation in a movie at Campus MovieFest, said that she needs her name removed from the article posted on HunterWORD[sic]. Her reason is that she kissed a girl in the video and her parents searched her name, found the video, and have her on lock down threatening to make her drop out of school. She needs to cut all ties with the video and article so her parents will let her stay in school. Though she agreed to the publishing of the article, she believes her reputation and education are at stake and would like to be removed from the article. Please get back to me as to whether this can be done.
Thank you,
[Anonymous]
Media292
Section 002
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March Madness: Ignorance Isn’t Bliss
Sunday, April 3rd, 2011“You’re anal,” concluded a student in one of my writing classes after I told her I wasn’t accepting her late class assignment. It’s clear in the class guidelines that first drafts of story assignments must be turned in on time or the grade for the assignment is F. But she seemed to believe, for reasons I didn’t understand, that I would overlook her serious omission. Well, said a student in another news writing class, we feel that the class is disorganized. We show up we and we never know what to expect.
These were the most notable comments in the face-to-face meetings I scheduled with my student writers in March. This semester, like the others, many didn’t read the syllabus nor the assignment guidelines and many came to class unprepared. Some can’t or won’t follow simple directions.
They, like many before them, Do the DUH a lot.
Spring Semester: Highlights, MEDP 292, Section 1
Wednesday, March 16th, 2011First draft of first article assignment (essentially what interviewed students say about the pressing issues in their lives). Everyone TF’d. Didn’t read the guidelines.Rewrite of first draft: Many TF’d the rewrite. Either didn’t read the guidelines or ignored them. One pair of eyes went red, tears.
So?
Like their peers in MEDP 292, Section 2: Talented. Smart. But so undisciplined. Don’t know yet how many may bite the dust.
Spring Semester 2011: Highlights Thus Far, MEDP 292, Section 2, Introductory News Writing
Wednesday, March 16th, 2011I don’t accept late assignments yet he asked me several times to read his first draft even though he knew the grade was F. I refused. But he kept insisting, I kept resisting until he said, QMFE, “Well one of my friends, a journalism student, read it and thought it was good.”
I took the bait.
Radical Changes in Journalism – the Profession …
Sunday, February 20th, 2011... and the Business — Demand Radical Changes in Journalism Curriculum.
This begs the question: Is D:F/M up to the challenge?
AOL Buys Huffington Post: Can You Spell B-A-C-K-P-A-Y?
Thursday, February 17th, 2011
Mashable
Friday, February 11th, 2011
A great evening, February 8, The Emerging Skills of Tomorrow’s Journalist. Very informative. Cutting edge. The kind of wisdom regarding the direction of journalism that my Colleagues have chosen to ignore, especially in light of their effort to introduce a journalism/media curriculum so lame that I’m embarrass for them. They aren’t.
More to follow about the event and the direction of journalism.
More Gearing Up for the Semester
Monday, February 7th, 2011Journalism Handbook for Students:
Journalism students enrolled in courses taught by Professor Gregg Morris are regarded as members of a community of scholars. Scholars push forward the boundaries of knowledge; respectable student journalists serve their public and their communities by seeking and reporting the facts as accurately as possible. Good journalists and scholars share a commitment to the same principle: integrity in their work. A doctor’s ethos is, “do no harm.” For journalism students, it’s “tell the truth.”
The handbook I’m using in class this semester is based on the handbook developed by NYU Professor Adam L. Penenberg who makes it available to other instructors via Open Access License. It has been abridged for students writing for the WORD.
Brilliant.
The Dark Side of the News Coverage of the Casey Anthony Trial
Wednesday, July 6th, 2011The Ethics Committee of the Society of Professional Journalism Decries Checkbook Journalism – Again – With News Coverage of Casey Anthony
No Surprise Here!
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Tags:Casey Anthony, news coverage of murder trials, sensationalism in news reporting
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