The End of Perfection

MEMPHIS,TENN. - With a shocking win in the closing seconds of the heavily anticipated #1 vs #2 game, Tennessee proved to everyone that they mean buisness.

After #2 Tennessee defeated #1 Memphis, they ended a Memphis 47 home winning streak, the longest in the country. Tennessee also stole the #1 spot as best team in Tennessee as well as #1 team in the nation.

With 26.5 seconds left in the game, Tyler Smith, a transfer from Iowa, hit a shot in the lane which locked up the win for Tennessee, 66-62 on Saturday night.

Chris Lofton, who had over 30 points against Memphis last year, was held to only 7 points on Saturday. He did however contribute to the Tennessee win by hitting a couple of free throws with 4.5 seconds left in the game.

Memphis, who hasn't lost at home since Jan. 2, 2006, was pretty bummed after this loss. "You guys all said we needed to lose one, so we lost one," said Memphis coach John Calipari. "Great game. I have to give them credit. They scrapped, they battled."

With coach Calipari using the New England Patriots as an example of how to remain undefeated, was hit by an opponent that shocked them like the Patriots. They were aiming to have the next undefeated season since Indiana in 1976.

When the polls come out later this week, they will surely be #1, for the first time in school history, as their fans who enjoyed the upset over Memphis were chanting, "We're No. 1! We're No. 1!"

Bruce Pearl, coach of Tennessee, said "I wanted to make sure our guys knew we were playing for something, I don't know if we're the best team in the country. I knew we were 40 minutes away from being No. 1." Pearl, who was going to wear his orange blazer for the game, will have to wear his blazer as a #1 coach against another in-state rival #16 Vanderbilt.

Original Article was written by Paul Newberry of the Associated Press-Star Tribune.

Blogging Between the Lines

I really liked this article, and how it talked about blogging being an advantage to newspapers. It is really hard to make specific rules to blogging, or even to get everyone to agree to others opinions on blogging, but I believe blogging can really help out newsrooms. At KEYC, our weatherman has his own blog, which a lot of people read to find out about the weather, and also because of of the like for the weatherman. I really feel that blogging is a good thing, and it will help out journalism in the long run.

Linking

After half a centruy of scholarly work, new documents about the lives ofJulius and Ethel Rosenberg have been made public."Certainly, after 50 years, the unique historical value of these records outweighs any secrecy rationale," said Thomas S. Blanton, the director of the National Security Archive, which filed the petition, with support from more than a dozen scholars. The archive, based at George Washington University, is a nonprofit group that uses the Freedom of Information Act to challenge government secrecy.goAmong the historians were John Lewis Gaddis, the Robert A. Lovett professor of military and naval history at Yale, and Ronald Radosh, adjunct senior fellow at the Hudson Institute in Washington and past president of the Historians of American Communism.

Blogging

Blogging, even though some people don't agree, has really been one of the several advancements in the journalism world. After reading this article by Jack Loechner I have found that blogging is very speedy, and is readily available. Unlike other news media, blogging has its advantages, especially with commenting. You can't comment on tv, radio, or even newspapers immediately. Blogging will be around as long as the internet around, which just gives more people opportunities to write on what they feel, and also to comment on the world around them. I really like the quote at the end of the article by Jerry Johnson, head of strategic planing at Brodeur, that says "...reporters are still creating their stories by going out and developing their own ideas and talking to their sources… The blogosphere's tail is not wagging the media body - at least not yet."

Citizen Journalism

Reading the article "The 11 Layers of Citizen Journalism," by Steve Outing, got me thinking about how citizen journalism would bring more needed information to our media outlets. I feel that everyone has the ability to be a journalist, and that it would help us find different and new views on the world around us. There were several methods that Outing mentioned in how citizens can place themselves in the reporting world.

The first method outing mentioned dealt with commenting on articles. I find that with the internet being so easy to use, especially to a younger age group, that a lot of comments you find on these articles would be filled with things like, "u suck," or "stop writing." A lot of people are so inexperienced with the art of journalism, which makes citizen journalism seem like it could cause some unneeded problems. With it being so easy to log onto websites and to leave comments, some of those comments could cause confusion of credibility.

I like the add-on reporter method but it seems like another way to say interview. Instead of having people add-on to your previous story with their stories, why don't you just interview them more extensively so that the story goes together better.

Blogging has become a huge part of the world today, due to the enhancement of online journalism. Like Outing said, it seems like everyone has a blog these days, even if you don't have your own blog, it seems like at certain times, you have at least commented on one of them. I find that even writing my own blog right now, makes me more of a journalist. Even if they are just my own ideas and personal thoughts, no one else is reporting on what I am, which makes it unique.

I think that the stand-alone-citizen-journalism websites are great ideas. It lets people, whos careers aren't necessarily dealt with journalism, write their thoughts and also different things in their community that the government or journalists don't find important. If something in your neighborhood goes wrong, it is not big news to everyone else, but for the people in the neighborhood, it would mean a lot.

With so much going on in the world today, citizen journalists can add much needed help. If they are witness to something, they can go on an report it, especially if there is no media around. I think that all these methods that Outing mentioned are pretty good ideas. Get creative, come up with your own method to help out the cause of citizen journalism. We are all journalists, so get out there and find your breaking story.


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Way to go GIANTS!

Aaron