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Blog Post #7, 10/30/2025
This is a post from Detroit Symphony Orchestra's account. They have a spinoff organization called Detroit Harmony that works to provide kids with free, donated, and shaped-up instruments. This post is a video that opens with the message that their instrument drive is taking place. It shows some people moving instruments, getting to work, which gives a sense of progress immediaetely. Then they show a cute kid and interview him a bit. It helps massively to see a happy benefactor of a cause. They talked to his mother as well, and she was able to nicelty articulate how much the entire experience means and what a gift it has been to their household, where her son regularly practices now. He's a young violinist who finds such peace in his intrument that he's unsure if he's been practicing for a month or ten years. That clip sealed the deal for me. Great post by a great cause.
Blog Post #5, 10/23/2025
The benefits of using social media seem to be endless. The networking is unlimited. Those who have a knack for gaining a following can reach a far wider audience than they ever could in person. It allows for many different types of content and subject matter. It houses all different opinions for those who care to hear a mix. However, it is all very targeted. That mix is curated to you. Anyone who achieves social media fame has proven their valor as a social media user, but not necessarily anything else, which can lead to false authority.
My experience with TikTok is none. I resisted getting any social media for a long time but got dragged in eventually. In my experience, it has not led to any genuine connections. The vast majority of information I consume is one-sided and uninformative or else not new. It is not an effective current source of news. It is a responsibility if I want to upkeep certain friendships as they are, and if it weren't, I likely would not use any social media at all. I do not know how I will adapt to an era where social media mobility is as essential a skill as typing.
Blog Post #4, 10/16/2025
I found a spliced-together interview of a Palestinian activist on Al Jazeera's website. The interviewer was not featured in the video, it was made up entirely of the unnamed man's analysis of the hunger crisis in Gaza. I thought this formula brought tons of attention to the message being delivered with no people or even identities to distract from his words. The man was center camera and there was no b-roll, but clearly it was captured via video chat, which makes proper shooting difficult, I suppose. Maybe I can move the interviewee to a few different places so that I can change the angle I'm filming them at, as well as the background. Then I can drop in some extra b-roll and film in between answers.
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Blog Post #3, 10/12/2025 (ammended)
I went to Cadillac Mich. to see the 50-year anniversary of Kiss coming to town. People lined the streets perusing the storefronts, which were largely Kiss-themed for the occasion. As I walked around town looking for pictures they came to me naturally. I was lucky enough to catch one person pointing at the 'Kiss face painting' sign that I was photographing. That kind of action shot is satisfying - I know what to chase now.
There were banners and memorabilia everywhere, and I hope my shots properly capture the hooplah 50 years later.
Blog Post #2, 9/28/2025
1. Jeff Weiss taught us about the many moving parts of Wayne State athletics and how it blends with media. I learned about the database of athletes' info and all of the pictures that are linked to the players. I think that's really awesome for the players and their families to see them on an official college site.
2. This photo is from a Sports Illustrated article announcing that the Tigers clinched the playoffs. The photographer got a great angle of this close play at home, showing that Baez is safe, implying a Tigers score and win. I think moving around to get different angles is important, this one is not the typical view of a play at home, which makes it cool in its own way. The photographer also got the name on the jersey, which is a good goal for shooting sports photos for easy identification of players.
Blog Post #1 9/21/2025
1. The similarities between the two codes that stuck out to me are as follows: both codes emphasize the need for real-life accuracy in your work. As a journalist, you are a source of trusted information, so you must make sure it is accurate. In the SPJ one rule encourages reporters to regurgetate information rather than summarize it or phrase it in your own way. You are not a first hand source, so even if your source is a bit diffficult to understand, your job is to bring their message to the people not recreate it a publish your own version. The same goes for photographs. You have a responsibility, according to NPPA, to show life exactly as it is. Editing photographs for photonews is creating an illusion, a lie.
By reporting to the public exactly what you oberserved, they are able to make their own free-minded interpretation rather than being guided or manipulated by the producer of the article.
This New York Post article is from the aftermath of Charlie Kirk's killing. The article presents a few ethical issues. First, the political bias is highly evident, and although this is a partisan publication, it would've been possible to present facts in a more neutral way. The author compares Charlie Kirk to George Floyd and complains about the lack of fanfare surrounding Kirk's death in comparison. That is probably unneccesary for the article and potentially offensive for a number of reasons The article also includes the word 'dumbest' in the title immediately highlighting a bias against any imfomation presented.
In this quote, "After the death of George Floyd, major universities offered “support” for students in “deep distress over the incident,” notes Catherine Gripp at The FederalistLinks to an external site. Following the murder of Charlie Kirk, however, “the Ivy Leagues have been comparatively silent.” None of the elite colleges “released a unique public statement condemning or even addressing Kirk’s assassination,” as they all did after Floyd’s killing. For example, Douglas Elmendorf, then dean at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, “posted a message lamenting Floyd’s death and its implications,” while Yale “shared university resources following Floyd’s death.” What a contrast: Now “universities across the country” are having to dismiss “professors for inappropriate comments about Kirk’s murder,"" the author refers to Floyd's passing as a 'death' and Kirk's as a 'murder,' and the quotes used in this exerpt are short and cleverly built into an already formed opinion and presented less as news facts but pooints to support an argument.
This is an immediately political issue, a political killing, so sides are bound to be taken. But, the media's responsibility to present facts. If the point of this article were to compare the aftermath of Floyd and Kirk's killings, stats and facts would've been better evidence than the opinionated quotes regarding only Floyd and vaguely discussing teachers losing their jobs over comments about Kirk. It's not only shallow in info, but shady. If this article was meant to clarify and debunk some of the chaotic, non-productive dialogue surrounding Kirk's death, their reponsibility as a reporter would be to simply and accurately display the facts, allowing the reader to piece together a clear, factual narrative.