Last day.'nuff said? Contact me at my email wmullig@schools.nyc.gov if you're having issues. See my previous blog(s)if you are unsure what is due. Your grades are being entered on Tuesday evening.

1. Last REAL day to finish up. 10 blogs minimum are due.
2. Your blogsite must have two links, at least one feed and a poll you've created.
3. You should have been to at least 12 blogs that your classmates have created.
4. Be sure you have handed in or emailed me at wmullig@schools.nyc.gov the assignment comparing how two different news organizations cover the same story.
5. Continue checking out the gadgets.

1. Today finish creating links and feeds on your page. Create a survey too. Continue visiting your classmates' blog sites.

2. **************** Due today by the end of the period is your comparison of how two different news networks or newspapers cover the same story. This has to be either handwritten and given to me by the end of the period or posted on my blog as a comment to this blog. Look at CNN, BBC, FOX, MSNBC, ABC, or CBS among others. *********************

3. The results are in and they are official! Now we know who da man is!

Term is almost over. TCB!

Play today.

1. Go to your blog, click Customize at the top and then click Add a Gadget.
Scroll down and add a link or two to the Link List. It is all point and click.

2. Try to add a Feed but check first to see if a feed is available on the site you're interested in adding. (Try a newspaper site such as nytimes.com or nydailynews.com) Look for the RSS in the brownish-orangish icon on the website.

3. Write your blog for today and try to imbed a link by typing http://www. and then the web site like http://www.nfl.com/ Put it in an appropriate place in your blog. Be certain the link you select is one that is relevant to your blog.

4. Time permitting, try to create a quiz and post it. It can be about anything that is legal and not lewd. Be sure to visit my blog to take the quiz I have created. Best quiz ever!

Thanks for all the comments, my dear followers.

Glad to hear that many of you are actually thinking about things. Skepticism is important in journalism as it is in life. Don't believe everything you are told, esp. by the media. Continue analyzing how the major networks cover the same story and especially look at the amount of time they devote to the various news stories of the day.

Rockstar, Dee and Steeve thanks for especially intelligent, thoughtful and wise feedback. Coldsteel... THAT'S JUST C_O_L_D!! and xoxo have faith! More are helping out than hatin'!


ASSIGNMENT:
1. Today, post your daily blog. Revisit your blog favs.
2. Visit 2 blogs you haven't been to yet.
3. Respond to the folowings blog I just wrote:

J_E_T_S Jets, Jets, Jets!

4. I want everyone to check out the major news networks. Analyze how their news coverage differs from what we see and hear on their competitors. Choose one story they cover and compare it in three ways to how the same story is covered, or not covered. This is due in writing by Thursday.

News coverage

Rarely seen such devastation. Would be like all of Queens being flattened and ground down to rubble. Glued to CNN and MSNBC watching their non-stop reporting. So difficult to watch but glad Haiti is getting the attention and hopefully the help it needs. Seeing much fundraising and help from all around the world. Channel surfed up to FOX where they were busy interviewing Sarah Palin, that great intelluctual giant, about how bad a job President Obama is doing. Then they covered the senate race in Massachusetts for Ted Kennedy's old seat. If the Republicans win this race the Dems will lose their 60th vote in the senate. I guess Haiti isn't really on their radar.

Nice to know in a world turned upside down that some things remain the same.

Did you see Pat Robertson on You Tube? My, God! Couldn't get a link to load up but go check it out when he claimed the Haitians made a deal with the devil and this is why God made the earthquake happen. Listen carefully! This is a man of God speaking.