winter you sonova gun you made me go through and write this macabre piece of garbage and if i cant sleep tongiht im blaming you.

Death of a President

Former President Sam Trickey changed the western world with his politics. Until yesterday, however, no one knew where he went after his controversial 8 year stint as leader of the Executive branch of government. Controversial is the only word for describing Sam Trickey; his politics were dangerously socialist leaning, which hadn't been the case for any presidential figure or candidate since 2016. "Killed," he said in an interview, "is how I think I'll die. One of these days, some angry farmer from the deep South will grab his gun and try to shoot me during a speech. It's inevitable."

Years ago, after stepping down as President, Trickey disappeared. Only his family seemed to have an inkling of where he went, because they had vanished too. Until the government themselves confirmed that he had been relocated for his own safety, people had theorized what had happened to him; it kept all media sated for years, but the mystery finally came to an true end yesterday, when they identified a corpse from midtown as belonging to the former President of the United States.

December 21st, 2068. Austin was feeling a bit chilly around this time, with low 40s and high 60s. Vendors in the stadium were selling hot dogs; it was the special Winter Solstice game. In the Smith's family, this was just another game to watch, and they were just another family watching it. Dentist's appointment coming up for the young ones, Dad thought that they would want a special treat. What nobody expected was twofold: Dear old Mr. and Mrs. Smith were actually a former President and former First Lady, and that Mr Smith would crash his suburban into a tree, killing him instantly.

It took about five days for the truth to come out about Mr. and Mrs. Smith. Nobody was very surprised that he went back to Austin; it was their original home, and several neighbors actually claimed to have known from the very start their true identities. Tears flew from the former First Lady's eyes, "I always thought he was being a bit paranoid." she sniffed. "Even when the second assassination attempt happened, I always thought that total relocation was a bit excessive." Renee, their daughter, couldn't be reached for an interview, but their publicist told the media that the Trickey family would be returning to the public spotlight to clear up any last mysteries.

Our thoughts and prayers are with them.

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1. Glenn Hegar is the Comptroller for oil prices, he was asked if the falling oil prices meant trouble for Texas's economy. He said no. Texas has been about half as dependent on its fossil fuel industry since 2013, and with huge increases in the hospital and healthcare industries making up for the losses in the fossil fuel industry. Severance taxes are the taxes on oil and fuel sales, and the lower the cost, the lower these taxes are.

2. Trump isn't participating the Republican debate because he wants to spite and avoid Fox, citing them as using his popularity and controversy to garner ratings. This is risky because it is the last one before the important Iowa caucus. He is instead hosting a charity for wounded warriors and veterans. I don't think it'll have a negative effect on his campaign, he gets media coverage wherever he goes. The democratic candidates are wondering whether to go to a non party approved debate. Martin O'malley said he would go, Bernie said no, Hillary said she would if her competitors would. It looks like noone will be going, so the event wont take place. This is 5 days before New Hampshire primary.

3. They are fighting a virus that causes birth defects from mosquitos. They said they would distribute mosquito repellent to pregnant women in exchange for cash benefits. Zika, Dengue, and Microcephaly are all diseases transmitted by the mosquitos in earlier years, and they have all been catastrophic. Castro said that it would be useless to try and fight back against this, due to it already have been too late. This is controversial because this is a very fatalistic and not good enough response to the outbreak. BRazil will host the olympics although.

4. Steven Weinberg is attempting to have a no guns in the classroom rule. McRaven is going to have a talk with the teachers to make sure that they are upholding the law. It goes into effect August 1st, another open carry law went into effect January 1st. Justin said that most of the people concealed carrying continued to conceal carry, it just didn't have much effect.

5. Ken Paxton is a texas attorney who objects to the allegedly inadequate notice of the 7 resettled syrian refugees. Last Friday, the government resettled some refugees in Texas without telling them who and where they are. Paxton asked a judge to stop the flow of refugees, to which the judge said no, and that the concerns were frivolous and blown out of proportion.

6. If the girls win their game against Arkansas, it would be the 1000th game won in Texas school history. The problem is that Texas is tied for 12th place, and the season has not been very good thus far. Their weakness is sloppy offensive positions.

7. I prefered the New York Times article, the leads hit mostly the same notes,but the NYT article was more thorough and I thought it looked better.

Friday agaim, garfie baby.

The newspaper business is not what it used to be, due to television and the internet becoming the dominant form of news-gathering. So, in order to survive, journalists must improve on what journalists are good at doing, rather than try and fail to mimic what the digital people do. He suggests doing this by captivating the reader's attention as a whole, rather than just keeping them interested on a per-minute basis. The way he says to do it is to break it down into four parts: the lead, the middle, the overall idea, and the end.

1) LEADS:
Leads are intended to hold the readers attention until they come to the information later in the article. Misdirection is used to bait the reader into actually reading before switching it out to add a shock element to the story, keeping the reader involved. Painting a scene, then immediately pulling out the surprise of the story is a good way to "Arrest the reader's attention." You can also try to add the information beforehand, starting out with some softball character building before hitting them with the immediate tragedy; the entire reason this story is being put in the news. This type of writing is good for keeping people interested in the huge stories; the types of stories that most people would normally be too intimidated by the length to get past the first paragraph. You need to make sure that the first paragraph is worth reading, in order to keep people around until the end.

2) THE MIDDLE:
For the Middle, you already have the reader's attention, now you have to be unique in your writing. Nowadays, people have already seen the main angle from about seven different sources, and people will not stay if all you plan on doing is recapping the main idea they have already seen. If you make the angle cover the story from a more human aspect; if you really hit close to home with the readers, then you have a good story.

3) ENDINGS:
Many journalists make the mistake of having a huge declaration of an ending, but the more subtle your ending, the better. If you end your story with a scene, rather than a recap of what the reader has literally just read, you allow the people to form their own judgements, even if you were about as anvilicious as a televangelist throughout the rest of the story. People are pretty smart, they don't need you to say, "And that's terrible," at the end of everything; they already know how to experience emotion! Add the human element to capture the essence of the great drama you have written; and when all is said and done, end it with a small scene to allow the readers to ruminate on what they have just read.




QUOTES


The guy with the gun shot Alan Burnett in the back of the head. A sentence. That’s it. one sentence.
this one is pretty neat because it really shows how being brief with your wham lines can have a very strong effect on your readers.

What this has engendered in the newspaper world is a need to approach writing and our journalism from a different point of view; we have to arrest the readers’ attention. We are not just the paper of record anymore. We are not just there to give you the who-what-when-where-and-why. They’re doing that on the Internet, they’re doing it on television, they’re doing it on 24-hour cable news, they’re doing it on radio. So what do we have to offer that none of them can?

This passage very easily says how journalists must evolve in order to outplay the TV and internet news outlets, they do facts better, so feature stories must be where we shine.


The kid was Justin Mello, barely 16 years old, popular soccer player at Anchor Bay High School, with a melting smile, a tall athletic frame, a freshly minted driver’s license and a dream of buying his father’s GMC truck with the money earned working at a pizza shop.
Good example of using excessive detail in order to humanize the character and make the bait and switch all the more unexpected and heart wrenching.


One of the mistakes people make in wrapping stories up is that they think that they have to have a huge declarative ending. A big, Ta-da! I think that sometimes, the more subtle the ending, the better.
Brevity is wit. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) 

The best writing just lets it sit there. Trust your readers, they’re pretty smart. They know how to read, they’re already ahead of most of the rest of the country. And they’ll get it, they’ll get what you’re trying to say. It’ll resonate with them, particularly at ends of stories.
Try not to insert your viewpoint into the story, simply let the reader decide from the details you have given them.

 Instead of you saying, “this is terrible, this is sad, this is awful,” look for a picture that tells it better than you and just describe the picture.   That’s what we can do as journalists and writers that nobody else can.

People dont need their emotions described to them, just make it so they FEEL them.

SMEEFi

DAVID BOWIE

David Bowie. The name that will stand in history as the greatest glam rock musician to ever walk this earth. Nobody really thought he would die anytime soon, he was just too powerful in the ways of rock. But, despite all of his drama, personas, and really neat tunes, he did. Releasing Blackstar less than a week before his death, it was his last hurrah, his last gift to us all. He deserves to be remembered because he was the most radical person ever. RIP

I read articles about Alan Rickman, David Bowie, and Andrew Smith. David Bowie's article was short and to the point, as everyone knew who David Bowie was by this time, he was so influential. Alan Rickman's article was much longer, as some people didn't quite know of his influence. Andrew Smith's article was short, but it was because he had a short, uninteresting life. RIP.

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1. This article tells the story of Trudy Steuernagel, a mother trying to raise an autistic young adult with violent tendencies. Throughout the story many references are made to the growing problem of handling autistic children with violent tendencies, and how many of these abusive relationships go unresolved due to the adults unwillingness to come forth with their troubles and risk demonizing the autistic community. The writer shows how dangerous this is by telling Trudy's story, which does not have a happy ending to say the least.

2. The majority of the story is in the past tense, with occasional factoids thrown in in order to give information about the bigger picture. The journalist does not appear in the story.

3. The structure of the story is different from normal. It opens with the recent past, giving the direct information, before moving backwards to show how things got this way. Trudy's death is a certainty, there is no suspense going on in the following paragraphs, only Sky's change from a sweet young boy to a dangerous man with the mind of a child. The story definitely uses the personal fear aspect of the ordeal, having to live under constant fear of your own offspring is something that would send a shiver down the spine of anyone. The article actually lampshades this, by comparing it all to one of the famous greek tragedies. Similes and metaphors are also used, "By then, Trudy's life began to feel a lot like that closet."

4. The writer reported the story in the past tense, with the main sources being Trudy's husband, Trudy's brother, the caretakers of Sky, several experts on autism in general, and Sky themselves. Almost all of the information was taken via interview and public records, and the reporter had no personal involvement to the actual events taken place.

5. Quotes:

"Sky wasn't a bad kid. I liked him. But he was a handful."

Sheriff Doak on his experiences with Sky post the beatings.

"To whom it may concern:

"If this letter has been opened and is being read, it is because I have been seriously injured or killed by my son, Sky Walker. I love Sky with my whole heart and soul and do not believe he has intentionally injured me. I have tried my best to get help for him and to end the pattern of violence that has developed in this home. I believe my best has not been good enough. That is my fault, not Sky's. Numerous people know about the violence and many have witnessed it. We have all failed Sky. I do not want him to be punished for actions for which he is not responsible.

"Trudy Steuernagel."

Trudy Stueurnagel, a letter of unknown date written in the event of her hospitalization.

"Sky sorry hit Momma,"

Sky, showing some understanding of what he had done, to Scott Stueurnagel, Trudy's brother

sam tricket sis

1. Hawthorne says that the biggest mistake fledgeling journalists make is to make a story out of data, and not tell a compelling tale to resonate with those reading. Stories aren't about certain things in particular, but rather, a story about someone, with conflict and resolution. Journalists are advised to decide upon a particular angle before they write the story, as going in knowing what you plan on writing is immensely helpful.


2. Any story can be interesting if you make the human element big enough. He says that writing a good news story is a lot like writing a book, or directing a movie. Character and Dialogue peak interest, the Order of the story is key in taking advantage of the Drama of the story, and building Anticipation for the Climax of the story, ending up with the satisfying Resolution. Write about people, and their flaws and troubles, not about a general topic.

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I like this picture because the pope has a funny face on, and I like the pope because of his radical much needed church reforms. It also represents how much the people have wanted this. pool-AP



I like this one because they look cool, and I'd like to save this picture to post to Instagram.
-Saul Loeb-AFP/Getty Images



I like this because it shows how short and piddly of a man Vladimir Putin really is. Short man, bad man.- Kevin Lamarque- Reuters


I found all of these photos on TIME top one hundred photos of 2015



SONG: Bitch better have my money-Rihanna

This song really resonated with me, because at the time it was published, i owed many friends money.

MOVIE: mad max fury road

I liked Ma0d max fury road because i like death, and this movie had a lot of it.

NEWS STORY: Terror attack on Paris

Many people died in the Paris attacks, and it has been compared to 9/11 in some respects

MOST IMPORTANT PERSON: my great uncle sam

i love my great uncle sam hes a physicist and is super good at math, he is my idol.

5. The best Sports/Entertainment person of the year was...

DONALD TRUMP

Since the very beginning of 2015, he has been nothing but a laughingstock who has somehow been shooting up the polls for the presidency. He won't win, but maybe as long as he keeps up with this, he'll guarantee a democratic presidency. Thanks for the laughs, space cowboy.

MY VACATION:

in review: i cant remember anything about my christmas, my new years resolution is to lose weight or something, and i am looking forward to who will win the presidency in 2016.