NPR: Ontario’s New License Plates Have A Problem: You Can’t Read Them Who: Citizens of Ontario, Canada. What: New license plates are unreadable at night. When: They were introduced in early February, but have been a problem as of late. Where: Ontario, a province in Canada. Why: When a light is shined on the license plates, they are virtually unreadable at night. How: The Canadian government didn’t think about the consequences of how light would reflect off of the plate. So What? This makes it hard for police and other cars to identify license plates in the dark. What’s Next? If there is enough feedback, Ontario government will look into revamping and reconstructing the license plates. Link: https://www.npr.org/2020/02/18/807133008/ontarios-new-license-plates-have-a-problem-you-can-t-read-them Huffington Post: 36 Year Old Woman Arrested For Calling 911 After Parents Shut Off Cellphone Who: The 36 Year Old Woman (Seloni Khetarpal) and her...
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This assignment talks about how information is transmitted and how we find it on social media. 1. Where did you first see it? I saw this on my personal Twitter page under #TheBachelor which was trending on Twitter. 2. Who (or what) brought it to your attention? I saw it on Twitter and scrolling through #TheBachelor after the episode completed last night. One of the final contestants, viewed as extremely unpopular, had her arrest record posted on Twitter. 3. Who created it? A Twitter account called @mckennaalexxis that was created in December 2019. She retweeted a number of Bachelor memes from various accounts, however, her first tweet was on February 17 th , 2020. 4. Trace the timeline, compiling links from the originating content to your eyeballs (and where you shared it, if applicable). 1) Fir...
The movie theater. Mookie Betts. Nate Jones. What do all of these three have in common? They all impacted Nate immensely. Jones, 23, is a huge Red Sox fan. He has Red Sox fandom running through his blood and loves baseball with a passion. Nate is originally from California and has family spread throughout the U.S. Nate is a huge podcast fan as well. When asked about his favorite baseball podcast, “I want to say ours, Runners in Scoring Position, but my favorite sports podcast, covers everything baseball and basketball is the Bill Simmons Podcast” When conducting a podcast, it is important to be unique, “I think communication goes into having a great podcast[...] it’s important to be different. What are you bringing to the table that is different?” We have done a lot of different interviews during our tenure, “Maxx Tissenbaum being my favorite, learning about the minor league experience. We also talked to Troy Renck, who went on rants about Nolan Arenado, which is still relevant today”...
What is your favorite baseball podcast? What goes into making a great podcast? What was your favorite baseball interview to do? What is your process for creating interview questions? Who is your favorite baseball player? Why is he your favorite baseball player? Who is your favorite baseball team? Why is that your favorite baseball team? Here is my script of interview questions for Nate Jones. He is my friend and co-host of Runners in Scoring Position, a baseball podcast that we run together. This features open-ended and close-ended questions to highlight different interview questions.
On November 7th, 2018, President Trump held a press conference that had a very testy exchange with CNN reporter Jim Acosta. Acosta “challenged” him on Trump’s opinion of immigrants calling it a “caravan”, when in fact, it wasn’t a caravan. During the exchange, Trump replied sarcastically, thanking him for telling him what a caravan was. After Acosta’s disagreement with Trump, Acosta refused to back down from the president, prompting an intern to come over and wrestle the microphone free from Acosta. Acosta tried to ask his follow up question, but was denied. Trump, visibly frustrated, moved on to another reporter. When Acosta kept persisting, Trump interrupted the reporter’s question.“I’ll tell you what, CNN should be ashamed of itself having you work for them. You are a rude terrible person, you shouldn’t be working for CNN,” said Trump. “In Jim’s defense, I’ve traveled with him and watched him. He’s a diligent reporter who busts his butt like the rest of us,” said Pete...
Libel Jim Acosta's incident with President Trump This would be an example of libel . This video is an edited video showing CNN reporter Jim Acosta allegedly grabbing the arm of a White House intern while answering a question. However, the original video is Acosta trying to grab the microphone from the intern after she grabbed it away from him. This damages Acosta’s reputation, because this video characterizes him as grabbing the intern, when he clearly had no contact with her. The plaintiff is identified and ridiculed through the tweets that he allegedly grabbed the intern. The injury would be to Acosta’s reputation, which was tarnished due to this incident, but somewhat restored when the White House gave him his press pass. Elon Musk's libel suit with UK diver This would also be an example of libel. This article from the BBC talks about a tweet with Elon Musk and an UK diver who helped rescue Thai children trapped in the cave a few years ago. When Musk sent o...