Phone Survey

1. How often have you used your phone for DCFIA related work this week? Please estimate in number of hours

1 hour

2. Which apps from the Syllabus list have you used to complete DCFIA related work?

news paper app

3. Which podcasts from the Syllabus have you used to complete DCFI A related work?

none

4. Are there any apps or podcasts not on the syllabus that you have used for DCFIA related work?

 no

5. Please share an example of a 1) local, 2) embedded, 3) convergent story that you filed this week using using your phone.

no stories

This American Life/ First Born Fast Grown Comparison

The story, This American Life, tells the story of a good school in the middle of a bad neighborhood. First Born Fast Grown is a story about a young boy who has to take a fathering role in his family. It's stated that he has to do everything from, putting the kids to bed and washing the clothes. 

While high school shootings are a serious problem we face, I believe that you find a lot more kids acting as parents these days. These are serious problems children shouldn't have to face.

Bloomberg Businessweek Exercise II

In the article,  the author uses the inverted pyramid style of writing. Beginning with the most significant parts of the story, with the less interesting parts following. The writer relates the entire story to us with the title, "Yes, The Chinese Army is Spying on You". Then as the article goes on readers realize that it's one man and he's spying on large companies. So using this technique the author grabs are attention but the story is not as interesting as it seems.

Q: What truth does this article convey? What truths are omitted? Is the hyperbolic cover matched by an investigative journalism piece worthy of the hype?

A:  The truth the article conveys is that one man in China is hacking into the computers of large companies. The truth omitted is that the whole Chinese army is spying on all of us. The cover is not matched with the story inside. The cover gives us the idea that there is more to the story than there actually is and that is actually affects every single one of us. 

Bloomberg Businessweek Exercise I

1.  Apocalypse 24/7

2. Pope Benedict XVI's Noble Departure

3.A Portrait of A Chinese Hacker

4.Regulating the Internet

5. Suze Orman, Watch Your Back

6.The Trouble with Drones

 7. Do You Really Want to Talk to Your Kitchen?

8. Oh Craps U.S Homeowners Are Repeating Their Mistakes

9. NASCAR Brings Back "Win on Sunday, Sell on Monday"

10.  Improving the Dealership Experience

Q: How do you determine what is most newsworthy? Reason for ranking.

A: Many things factor in to making a story newsworthy. One important factor of a newsworthy story is timing. People will have less interest in a story from 3 months ago rather than one that happened 3 days ago. The significance of a story is also very important. For example the story titled Apocalypse 24/7 reaches a wider crowd than the story of the Pope resigning which may not be as interesting to people who are not Catholic or do not have an interest in religion. People also fall under significance when referring to which story in a paper or magazine comes first. An example is the story of the Pope and Suze Orman. The Pope is of higher prominence than Suze Orman so the story of him resigning should come before the story about Suze Orman. 

Football Helmet Design

As of this football season, most NFL players were wearing a new helmet called Riddell 360. Another innovation recently in football helmets was made by a Swedish neurosurgeon. He founded Multi-Directional Impact Protection System (MIPS).  Many believe these innovations can save football but the truth is it will take a lot more than that. In my opinion,  I don't believe helmets do much for anyone. If you look back there were less concussions when they weren't using the big metal helmets and we can look at that and say that helmets are used as a weapon on the field rather than a source of protection.
http://mipshelmet.com/facts-and-tests/become-a-licencee
http://mipshelmet.com/news
http://mountainbikegeezer.com/posts/tag/multi-directional-impact-protection-system/

Gun Violence

In a story on a shooting, I would mainly focus on the shooter. With my focus on the shooter, I would investigate the events leading up to the shooting. Did the shooter have mental issues? Did the shooter have a significant events that led him to the point of a shooting? What were his motives?

If I had been covering the story on Unruh, I would have done further investigation on his military services. Was there a significant event that made him feel a need to kill people? Did he have an injury that led to the dysfunction of his brain?

Referring to the commercial and article Mayors Against Illegal Guns, I believe it's important to retrieve everyone's feelings on a shooting. The mother speaking of her dead child is significant because she adds an important layer to the story, that being emotion.

My opinion on guns, is not that we should take them away, but that we should have different regulations. It shouldn't be as easy at it is to get a gun. 

Persuasion

Persuasion is in short social influence. Typically used to get someone to believe or follow a certain action. For example, if someone has an opposite opinion on a matter, persuasion can be used to change ones mind. The use of good reasoning and power in speech are significant components of persuasion.
Persuasion is used in the example of the New York Times article on debt, "U.S. is in any imminent danger of turning into an economic basket case like present-day Greece." The power in speech is used specifically with judgement in this example with the statement "economic basket case like present-day Greece".