A 6-year-old Creekside Elementary student was handcuffed, put in the back seat of a police car and taken to the Milledgeville (Georgia) police station on April 13, 2012 for throwing a tantrum in her kindergarten class.
Salecia Johnson was accused of being disruptive in her classroom. She reportedly knocked over a shelf, tore things off the classroom wall, ripped a book, and injured the school principal.
In none of the stories viewed at the time of the post were the names of the kindergarten teacher or principal included. Should their names and pictures have been included along with the 6-year-old's name and picture?
Has the "zero tolerance" policy gone too far?
Should there be alternative discipline options in the elementary schools, rather than a trip to the police station?
Nevertheless, a civil rights attorney said "hundreds of kids have been arrested in the past few years for minor offenses such as: having cell phones in class, burping, refusing to switch seats and inflating a condom in class."
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
Tweeting to a Pulitzer
The Tuscaloosa News is crediting tweeting with helping it win a Pulitzer Prize in Breaking News.
The Alabama newspaper published stories about the April 27, 2011 tornado that ripped through Tuscaloosa and other parts of the state. More than 50 people were killed in the devastating storm that knocked out electricity, and cable and phone lines. Reporters and citizens tweeted about the storm from across the city, which helped in the reporting of the disaster.
Apparently this is the way award-winning journalists are supplementing their reporting. Last year The Seattle Times won the Breaking News Pulitzer Prize in part by using Twitter when covering the deaths of four police officers.
What about accuracy?
What about credibility of sources?
What's the best way to use social media when reporting the news?
The Alabama newspaper published stories about the April 27, 2011 tornado that ripped through Tuscaloosa and other parts of the state. More than 50 people were killed in the devastating storm that knocked out electricity, and cable and phone lines. Reporters and citizens tweeted about the storm from across the city, which helped in the reporting of the disaster.
Apparently this is the way award-winning journalists are supplementing their reporting. Last year The Seattle Times won the Breaking News Pulitzer Prize in part by using Twitter when covering the deaths of four police officers.
What about accuracy?
What about credibility of sources?
What's the best way to use social media when reporting the news?
Tuesday, April 3, 2012
Why Trayvon?
“Why Trayvon?”
Dr. Lillie Fears and students in her "Public Opinion, Propaganda and Mass Media" class will host a panel discussion about "Why Trayvon?" on 6-8 p.m. Thursday, April 5, in the Student Union.
The panel will focus on the perils of stereotyping, with much emphasis on the Trayvon Martin case down in Florida.
While much of the panel will focus on issues surrounding the recent Trayvon Martin case, panelists and participants will discuss a few other high profile cases dealing with stereotyping (Linsanity—Jeremy Lin; remarks by presidential candidates about the poor and African Americans; remarks made about Christians--Tebow, etc.).
We can all grow from a healthy discussion.
Dr. Lillie Fears and students in her "Public Opinion, Propaganda and Mass Media" class will host a panel discussion about "Why Trayvon?" on 6-8 p.m. Thursday, April 5, in the Student Union.
The panel will focus on the perils of stereotyping, with much emphasis on the Trayvon Martin case down in Florida.
While much of the panel will focus on issues surrounding the recent Trayvon Martin case, panelists and participants will discuss a few other high profile cases dealing with stereotyping (Linsanity—Jeremy Lin; remarks by presidential candidates about the poor and African Americans; remarks made about Christians--Tebow, etc.).
We can all grow from a healthy discussion.
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Graphic cigarette labels
The Food and Drug Administration revealed new health warning labels June 21, 2011 that must be posted by September 2012 on half of the front and back of every cigarette pack sold in the United States. Each label also will include the toll free number for those who want to quit (1-800-QUIT-NOW).
Look at the nine "graphic and startling" health warning labels.
Tobacco accounts for 30 percent of the nation's cancer deaths and tobacco use is responsible for 443,000 deaths and about $100 billion in health care costs annually, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
What is your opinion about the new labels? Be sure to support your opinion with reporting.
Look at the nine "graphic and startling" health warning labels.
Tobacco accounts for 30 percent of the nation's cancer deaths and tobacco use is responsible for 443,000 deaths and about $100 billion in health care costs annually, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
What is your opinion about the new labels? Be sure to support your opinion with reporting.
Graphic cigarette labels
The Food and Drug Administration revealed new health warning labels June 21, 2011 that must be posted by September 2012 on half of the front and back of every cigarette pack sold in the United States. Each label also will include the toll free number for those who want to quit (1-800-QUIT-NOW).
Look at the nine "graphic and startling" health warning labels.
Tobacco accounts for 30 percent of the nation's cancer deaths and tobacco use is responsible for 443,000 deaths and about $100 billion in health care costs annually, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
What is your opinion about the new labels? Be sure to support your opinion with reporting.
Look at the nine "graphic and startling" health warning labels.
Tobacco accounts for 30 percent of the nation's cancer deaths and tobacco use is responsible for 443,000 deaths and about $100 billion in health care costs annually, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
What is your opinion about the new labels? Be sure to support your opinion with reporting.
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Born in the U.S.A.
Bruce Springsteen sings a song "Born in the U.S.A. (1984).
Today "Birthers" are saying that U.S.A. President Barack Hussein Obama was not born in the U.S.A. and therefore should not be president of the U.S.A.
What do you think?
Today "Birthers" are saying that U.S.A. President Barack Hussein Obama was not born in the U.S.A. and therefore should not be president of the U.S.A.
What do you think?
Monday, April 11, 2011
NO SAGGING
Arkansas Gov. Mike Beebe signed a "no sagging bill on March 30, 2011.
The bill bans students from wearing clothes that expose "underwear, buttocks or the breast of a female."
Recently there were signs posted in the Student Union that bans sagging.
Sagging isn't allowed inside Turtle Creek Mall. Those violating the policy are asked to "pull up" or "get out."
Are these bans a violation of the rights of students? Are they a violation of free speech/free expression? (People expose more of their bodies in swimwear.) Do the "fashion police" need to find another more important job outside of checking exposed underwear, buttocks and female breasts?
The bill bans students from wearing clothes that expose "underwear, buttocks or the breast of a female."
Recently there were signs posted in the Student Union that bans sagging.
Sagging isn't allowed inside Turtle Creek Mall. Those violating the policy are asked to "pull up" or "get out."
Are these bans a violation of the rights of students? Are they a violation of free speech/free expression? (People expose more of their bodies in swimwear.) Do the "fashion police" need to find another more important job outside of checking exposed underwear, buttocks and female breasts?
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