This election was a blow-out, I knew it would happen. Just for a good measure of randomness, I would like to say this totally-unrealistic quote from Obama. "I am Barack Obama, and I approve this salami sandwich, on rye bread,". Anyway, this obviously has potential for an article. In unrelated news, I turned in my cafeteria food article not too long ago.
In my opinion, I think I could've done a lot better on this installment. This one, to put it simply, was a little bit too confusing. I had the idea of going into a linear style with Rude the Fox, but I think, (I really protest the idea, but Stroud disagrees-I can't blame him, our paper only comes out in the seasons it feels like.) I left it off where Rude meets a possible girlfriend (unnamed) and the comic ends with her asking him if she can sit next to him. That's it. It as a cliffhanger, no doubt about it. And that really doesn't give the reader a good interpretation of what is going on, and made it harder to understand. I promise, whoever reads this, that Rude will get better. I was not impressed with what happened, but I know I am still learning about all of this, and I know I can do way better than this. I would love to hear your opinions.
I have to say, there are some really vivid opinions that can be well illustrated in this issue. I'm compiling a list right now; so far I have five, I might have more as time passes, but these are the best gems I have found so far. I can tell that my hand is going to be killing me after I'm finished drawing.
Finally getting over this sickness and getting work done on my GeekSpeak article. As I said earlier, the topic is over 'net-books' and should be completed shortly.
My excuse: I've been sick for about two weeks now, and am on meds so I can get better. Ironically I don't really feel like I've been healing, and my cough has gotten to be extremely productive (a good cough, getting all of the intruding "things" out) and it sounds a lot worse. I have a lot of deadlines to do, and am working on GeekSpeak right now, my review for this one will be over those little laptops that are becoming more and more popular, dubbed the name 'netbook'.
Unfortunately, it is under a section that I am not too fond of (News). I have to write this 'bad boy' up by the 9th of September, and I'm still brainstorming who would be best to supplement the story, but I still feel like I'm not getting the best sources no matter how hard I think about it. I even neglected to tell what the story was about-it is about the problem of not letting students into the Betty Gray building, and the Science building without some form a pass. Now that I think about it, I could interview the 'Head Hanchos' (administrators).
Well, I have been trying to develop new ideas of what exactly I want Rude to do next. I came to a crossroads: I either need to quit holding my self back so much with the character, and really express his personality better, or keep doing the same old three-panel strip with no life-like characters and boring jokes. You can probably guess what road I took. Right now I'm working on the script, and some thumbnails of the strip; I am wanting to let Rude's shyness come out in this strip, especially when talking to the ladies, so I'm giving him a girlfriend (human) that is twice his height. (Obviously, because Rude is a fox, and is no where near the stature of a human. I'm wondering why I even typed that.) I'm not sure why I decided to give an update, but I wanted to feel like I'm using this blog more than I used to.
Well, it's your favorite loser/geek hybrid, Fred. I am just testing out my blog again, to see if my Movable Type upgrade worked, like everyone else. Please be sure to keep an eye out on a podcast that Donald and I are working on about Brookspeak, and check everyone else's staff blogs.
Ok, so apparently, I'm supposed to be doing an article on substite teachers and I have already asked around and pretty much getting the same response. "They are taken advantage of" is the big one. Not sure who I will ask next, but there is surely someone out there that doesn't treat subs like garbage...
Should the student press have limits?
Now, I’m not going to be a total jerk on this, but I honestly think that there should a be limit for some things that are just obvious like cursing, sexual content, violence, things that are negative to religion and culture, just things like that. There
are some things though, that I think that should not have a limit. Those things are basically how we can’t really say things about the school without being punished, and/or beaten and how we really can’t get records for information we need to know.
Limits though can very from person to person on their values, but I think I might have quite a few people agree with me when I say we should be able to access certain things in this school that they always try to hide, such as the records I mentioned earlier. Writing a story that shows something “negative� about the school (such as that article that was written about 2 years ago that ended the paper), certain things about teachers that “Big Brother� tries to cover up, and how we really don’t have full rights that most staffs have really needs to be changed. Some of the big limits that need to be set are basically things that people might do in the future, or even now.
I think that we need to limit all inappropriate material, any stories about teachers that are put in a negative way, and mainly common stuff, such as how we are always seem to want to make the administrators and some teachers angry. I’m pretty sure this makes since to most people who are in this class, but it might only vaguely mean something to you. To clarify a bit, our staff shouldn’t write anything I listed here, and we should really should be asking more and more questions about policies so we can’t have a little mess happen again.
I know I seem to be bouncing back and forth on these topics, but I’m trying to get the “best of both� worlds in. I think that if you compare and contrast on this issue, it might help you think even more about what can be done. Limits are different to some people as said earlier, and they differ from place to place; for example, Cobb County vs. Dekalb.
But what we need to do is get the perfect hook-ups, so we can find the information we need, without all of these bad things going on. I'm not sure if this would help, but we need to be picking elite members of our staff for this job so we can get the interviews right, without making anyone TOed. That’s what I think anyway. If we could do that, it might help us, but certainly might hurt us as well.
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