Friday, April 29, 2011

teens driving distracted

            Teens everywhere are driving distracted and reckless more frequently then you probably know. Teens being male and female seem to be in so much of a rush and hurry they think that text talking on the phone and speed is appropriate in certain situations. 49 percent of teens said they have typed or sent a text message while driving and 82 percent said they have talked on their cell phone. Nearly half, 48 percent, of girls admit they are likely to speed more than 10 miles per hour over the limit, and now 16 percent of all of teen girl drivers admit to being aggressive on the road. In comparison, 19 percent of teen boys admitted to exceeding the speed limits and 13 percent of boys described their driving as aggressive. Those are pretty large percents and means that it’s pretty likely for you to encounter a distracted, aggressive teen driver.
            When a couple of teens were surveyed they stated they both responded
 “Yes I text and drive but I only do while I’m at a stop light unless it’s important.” They were also asked if they ever talked on the phone and drive one responded.
“yes I do so way more than texting, I answer my phone all the time.” The other responded by saying. “I always ignore calls while I’m driving.” This is a positive change from all the negative driving habits projected onto teen drivers. Another question asked was do you ever speed? One responded.
“yes I speed all the time but I only do by 5 over most the time and sometimes 10 over if it’s a street that’s not patrolled.” The other teen said “yes I do, but only when im late to something important.”
Now this all seems like really bad driving habits and that teens are the worst out there but just think about how many people you see pass you on the free way that aren’t teens when you’re already going the speed limit. It seems to be a common trend universally. These teens were also asked how often they noticed distracted drivers they both responded similar.
“Very often, whether its texting, smoking in general or messing with ipods, I see it all the time.”  And its not only teens that are distracted but adults seem to be doing it too. They were also asked to describe the weirdest distraction they have seen and they responded as such.
“Rolling cigarettes is probably the oddest I have seen to date.” The other teen said “putting make on in the mirror while driving on the free way is the  weirdest I have seen.” And believe it or not these weren’t teen drivers either.
There is still no doubt the numbers are there to support the speculation that teen drivers are not the safest drivers or the least distracted but at the same time adults are still driving distracted as well and should be focused on as well as teens. So in the long run its not just the teens we need to look out for but as well with the adults.
Safe driving.

Monday, April 25, 2011

hard news notes

plus or minus 600 words.
atrts with a summery lead, when ,where, why, how, who, what
clean uncluttered

hleps weave comments into coherent poem
vsualization, begining should be the facts.

homework storey topic: driving habbits of high schoolers

Tuesday, April 19, 2011

1. What are the 5 freedoms of the 1st amendment?
speech, press, assembly, religion, protest

2. What is the Tinker Standard?
-student speech cannot be cencored as long as it does not " materially disrupt classwork or involve substancial disorder or invasion of the rights of others"
- fisrt court case that was in favor of students

3. What is the Frasier Standard?
-because school officials have an " interest in teaching students the boudries of socially appropriate behaviors,"
-they can censor student speech that is vulgar or indecent, even if it does not cause a material or substancial disruption.

4. What is the Hazelwood Standard?
-censorship of school  sponsored student expression is permissible when school officials can show that it is "reasonably related to legimate pedagogical concerns"

5. What is the Frederick Standard?
- jan. 2002 olimpic torch travels throught town
-principle morise cancells school
-If you are in a school authorized field trip you are still under the schools jurisdiction.

6. What is the definition of libel?

-false statements of fact about a person that are printed, broadcast or otherwise communicated to others.
-hurts someones reputation
-published
-false                    ?

Monday, April 18, 2011

Definition:
Define “Journalism” in 1-3 sentences.
telling of current events that are news worthy through writing, news paper, magazine, and internet.


List and describe the six criteria of newsworthiness.

TITLE DESCRIPTION EXAMPLE
1. timliness- current stuff that just hapenned.

2. prominence- things we care about, famous people.


3. proximity- close by.

4. significance - larger the event and more people that are impacted the more significant the event is.

5. unussualness- we care about thing that dont happen much, out of the ordinary.

6. human intrest- feel good stories, things that make you feel uplifted.




What are the advantages of print journalism?
1.stories go into detail.

2.you conrol what you read and how much you read.

3.can physically take it where ever you want


What are the advantages of broadcast journalism?

1.much more current.

2.you can watch, listen, and witness live videos of whats going on.

3.you can watch it where ever there is a tv.


Why has online journalism (convergent media) become so popular
combining the two(print, broadcast) to get the best of both worlds.