Ethical Sports Dilemma

I was reading my monthly Glamour magazine when I came across an interesting little snippet. The woman who exposed Alex Rodriguez's use of steroids came back to visit him in a locker room where she asked him a question and he responded coldly to her. She explains that it was her job and duty to report his use of steroids and that the public deserved to know, apparently he didn't see it that way. Was she intruding on his personal life or was she warning baseball fans about a baseball player's abuse of drugs?

Audio Slideshow

West African Dance Slideshow

Last Post of the Semester

As the semester winds down, I thought I'd write my last blog post of '08 about my experience with Journalism this year. I realized that my dream job is NOT working at the Chronicle, that newspapers are slowly diminishing, the future lies in the internet, that I was lucky to be able to write about the presidential election, that I may want to pursue something in documentary film, dry news is NOT for me, I want to write features, how to record audio/how to use final cut pro, how to use my camera and take decent pictures, my resume still lies at the bottom of endless piles- may have even made its way to the garbage, how to write an amazing lead, how it feels to be both a reporter and a photographer, and how to really offend someone you're interviewing.

I think I want to work at Current TV.

Black Friday brings bad news

Black Friday brought out the worst of a New York crowd that stampeded over a Walmart worker last Friday. I found a CNN article about this, but I just found it shocking that this even happened in the first place. People will take a persons life over a $5 discount? This economic crisis has brought out the worst in people. I think it's absolutely ridiculous. The holidays, which are supposed to bring people together, are driving people to do crazy things for savings. Check out the article below, and you can comment on the website as well....

Black Friday Death of a Walmart Employee

Audio slide shows- great altrnative to video

For my photojournalism class I am creating an audio-slide show and I realized that it is a great alternative to film. Because I carry my camera around a lot I can take pictures galore, but I don't have a video camera. I can create something like a video with my pictures through a photo story adding audio or music. It's really effective in getting across the point of a story. Below I have linked some slide shows, they are really well composed.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/object/multimedia?f=/c/a/2007/12/03/BA9TTKICE.DTL&o=0

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/object/multimedia?f=/c/a/2008/05/25/MNFS10NQNV.DTL&o=0

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/specials/onefatalshot/

http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/video/player.asp?videoID=48

Kevin Epps at USF

I just got back from a documentary screening of the film "Straight Outta Hunters Point" by Kevin Epps, and I was amazed. His documentary was real, he was able to get the voice of the people, the REAL story of those living in Hunters Point. From gang violence, to funerals, to pollution in the area, to shootings... this director captured the essence of street life.

I've lived in San Francisco for three and never heard of this place. I think that that is unacceptable and typical of a lot of people who live here. If I were to tune into my local television channel it would tell me that Hunters Point is a dangerous place in need of more police supervision, or at least that's what the news would infer. But it's not more cops that this place needs, its HOPE. After school programs, role models, money, this is what Hunters Point needs.

Kevin Epps works with CurrentTV with some projects and I hope to get involved in them.

Below is a youtube video link of Kevin Epps talking about Presidential-elect Barack Obama.

CLICK HERE

Prop 8 News Coverage

I noticed that in the Bay Area I saw numerous commercials in favor of "No on Prop 8" and a few for "Yes on Prop 8." However, a friend of mine from Orange County explained that in her hometown there wasn't broadcasting for "No on Prop 8" and a lot of broadcasting about "Yes on prop 8." This seems a little biased and makes me question the "objective" angle the media "takes".