Guest Speaker

Today in our journalism class we had a guest speaker. He is a free-lance journalist and a friend of Mr.chow
He explained to us and gave us more tips to help us as journalists. He also had us role play. Each of us had a partner while one was the interviewer and the interviewee. We were in situations where we interviewed a new CEO, a defeater Senator, a mother whose son was shot, and a police officer that was accused of taking bribes.
Our guest taught us what we should do if things happen such as the interviewee doesnt want to answer our questions or if they say they dont have time.
In my group I was the interviewer and I was interviewing the defeated senator. We made it the senator who was accused of placing bids on Obama's seat.
I started out with introducing myself. "I am Jena Bantilan and I am a journalist from the Bay Guardian." Then I asked what he would be doing now since he didnt win the position as senator. He told me of funding projects that he is doing.

M:Me
I:Interviewee-senator

M:So what are these projects for?
I:Schools education, hospitals, etc
M:And what have they done with the money?
I:For supplies

My next questions would be leading to my aim which was if the senator was really placing bids. So our guest speaker helped me to understand that the interviewee should be comfortable and dont always start off with the hard questions or questions that they may make them feel offended.
I thought that the role plays were a good exercise and we had fun

OBAMA's Address to Congress

"Tonight I want every American to know this: We will rebuild, we will recover, and the United States of America will emerge stronger than before."

Obama's changing America. Today he made an address to Congress. He has given money to banks to start the help with the economy. Obama is still looking forward to bettering the issues of health care, education, and more efficient fuel. I believe in Obama and his want for change and I know that he can bring our enonomy back up and help the people that are in need. He wants to help the unemployed and this is a big issue because people are still being fired from their jobs.

"You don't need to hear another list of statistics to know that our economy is in crisis, because you live it every day."



"As soon as I took office, I asked this Congress to send me a recovery plan by Presidents' Day that would put people back to work and put money in their pockets."

He said that congress delivered.


This is only the beginning. . .

Changeling

The characters: Angelina Jolie Rev, John Malkovich, Jeffrey Donovan, Michael Kelly, and Colm Feore

Directed by Clint Eastwood

A movie that gives you the chills. After coming home from work one day, a lady finds that her son is missing and no where to be found. No one had seen him and the poilce said that they couldnt help.
Months later the police bring back a boy, but it isnt her son. She does all she can to make things right even if it means having tension with the police.

A true story that happened in L.A
I would recommend this movie to people who like mysteries

I think that this is a good movie to show how women can be so powerful with our motivation and love.

'Right America Feeling Wronged'

Watch this documentary on HBO by Alexandra Pelosi, the daughter of Nancy Pelosi

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TOGETHER WE STAND

To anyone who feels alone or helpless,
you are not alone. Everyone in the world has problems and we can all relate to one another in certain ways. At times in our lives we have all failed, made mistakes, disappointed ourselves and others, let go of people, and at some point we have been lost. We search for answers to figure out why this happens and we may find something to help bring us down a better path and other times we end up with nothing. We do need the time to think of our problems and try to understand them, but we also need the strength to overcome whatever is laid down before us.

There were so many times in my life where i believed that my life was terrible. My grades were bad and i felt alone. Parents always arguing and my brother never listens to anyone. Things