Stealing Life

In this article, Margaret Talbot talked about David Simon and his work in television series "The Wire."

“It was like a frat house the other day, with all your newspaper pals around here,” Johnson told Simon. “What, you think somebody in Iowa’s gonna be watching and go, ‘Look, honey, it’s Bill Zorzi!’?” Warming to his riff, he added, “You ever try playing off these people who’ve never acted before? Somebody yells ‘Action,’ and they stand here like this”—he made a blank fish face."

What we all need to learn about is how the journalistic technigues in writing will be able to use in other forms of writing. How everyone reports their stories has to do with there mindsets and personal beliefs.

A boy's Life hangs in the balance

The article http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-lopez30sep30,1,2321335.column by Steve Lopez, the journalist talks about a young boy facing near-death experience after being dragged by a car.

Lopez's story falls into the third-person, with very little first-person elements. Danny White, is described as "red-haired and freckled." Every individual in the story is given a clear characteriztion.

It is clear where this all happened at: the event took place at Palisades Circle, on a "Thursday afternoon, Sept. 20, a beautiful day clouded by this sudden intersection of random event involving people who never met each other."

The story is presented in chronological order which makes it easier to read, and the story seems to get stranded as well.

Sometimes it is easier to read narrative writing if it is at least entertaining.

Feature Story

What I liked about this feature story is that a mother decided to pack up everything and relocate to watch her two sons play football. Sibyl Mendenhall lived in Chicago and decided to relocate to Champaign to watch her two sons play for the Fighting Illini football team.

Mendenhalls share the journey