Assignment #6
Part 1:
The New Republic- Stephen Glass
The New York Times- Jayson Blair
USA Today- Jack Kelley
The Washington Post- Janet Cooke
Part 2:
The Mustang Daily reported that one of it's staff writers, Rebecca Laman, plagiarized in articles dating back to the spring quarter of 2006.
The Tribune independently confirmed that paragraphs were lifted from online sources in two of those three stories.
Paragraphs were copied from various Web sites in the articles: a profile of the Cal Poly men's barbershop quartet, Men-So Forte; "July Fourth do's and don'ts" and a movie review of "Fantastic Four."
Part 3:
1. CorpWatch is an organization that investigates and exposes corporate violations of human rights, environmental crimes, fraud and corruption. They are a project of the Tides Center and guided by a four-member Executive Committee of our Advisory Board.
2. Global Witness is an organization that exposes the corrupt exploitation of natural resources and international trade systems. They drive campaigns that end impunity, resource-linked conflict, and human rights and environmental abuses. Much of thier funding comes through grants from trusts and foundations, develpment organizations and governments.
3. LabourStart is an online news service that serves the international trade union by collecting and disseminating information, and by helping in campaigning.
4. The Associated Press serves as a source of news, photos, graphics, audio and video. They provide news services of the highest quality, reliability and objectivity with reports that are credible and balanced. AP operates as a not-for-profit cooperative.
5. Reuters is an organization who offers indispensible content, innovative trading services and great customer service. Reuters information is trusted and their reputation is based on speed, accuracy, and freedom from bias.
6. Electronic Authorization Partnership- ??
7. David Romero- I don't know which David Romero you had in mind. There were a few that i found online.
8. Jack T. O'Connell is a California politician. Currently he is the California State Superintendent of Public Instruction. He is best known for writing legislation to make the California High School Exit Exam a graduation requirement for high school students.
9. Julie L. Rodewald is the County Clerk and Ex-Officio Clerk of the Board of Supervisors, in and for the County of San Luis Obispo, State of California
10. Deborah Linden- She is the CEO of Island One Resorts.
Sunday, April 29, 2007
Wednesday, April 18, 2007
assignment #5
assignment #5
1. In 1993, Alex G. Spanos and his wife Faye donated $1.5 million to Cal Poly to build a theater, which was later named the Alex and Faye Spanos Theatre. Alex Spanos is the owner of the San Diego Chargers and a former drum major for the Cal Poly marching band.
Before the library moved to a new building in 1980, there was the Dexter Library. It was officially named the Walter F. Dexter Memorial Library in Spetember 1948. Dexter helped president Julian Mcphee to get approval and state funding for the new library building. Dexter also helped secure collegiate status for Cal Poly.
2. One structure under construction is the new Housing Administration Building that will be replacing the old Housing Office. the new buliding will be much larger and will accomodate the increasing on-campus operations, including the Poly Canyon Village project. The scheduled date for the building to be completed is pending.
A new building, Cal Poly's Construction Management Department, will reach completion in fall of 2007. This building will house The Simpson String-Tie Material Demonstration Labratory. It will be the largest element in the building's Center for Construction Excellence. The lab will provide students with hands-on experience of construction managment and with residential, commerical and heavy/civil construction.
Spanos’ donation is not the first generous gift he’s made to his alma mater. He also contributed $1.5 million to Cal Poly-San Luis Obispo in 1993 to build a theater for the college that was later named the Alex and Faye Spanos Theatre. Earlier this year, Alex also received a Doctor of Humanities from the University.
1. In 1993, Alex G. Spanos and his wife Faye donated $1.5 million to Cal Poly to build a theater, which was later named the Alex and Faye Spanos Theatre. Alex Spanos is the owner of the San Diego Chargers and a former drum major for the Cal Poly marching band.
Before the library moved to a new building in 1980, there was the Dexter Library. It was officially named the Walter F. Dexter Memorial Library in Spetember 1948. Dexter helped president Julian Mcphee to get approval and state funding for the new library building. Dexter also helped secure collegiate status for Cal Poly.
2. One structure under construction is the new Housing Administration Building that will be replacing the old Housing Office. the new buliding will be much larger and will accomodate the increasing on-campus operations, including the Poly Canyon Village project. The scheduled date for the building to be completed is pending.
A new building, Cal Poly's Construction Management Department, will reach completion in fall of 2007. This building will house The Simpson String-Tie Material Demonstration Labratory. It will be the largest element in the building's Center for Construction Excellence. The lab will provide students with hands-on experience of construction managment and with residential, commerical and heavy/civil construction.
Spanos’ donation is not the first generous gift he’s made to his alma mater. He also contributed $1.5 million to Cal Poly-San Luis Obispo in 1993 to build a theater for the college that was later named the Alex and Faye Spanos Theatre. Earlier this year, Alex also received a Doctor of Humanities from the University.
Friday, April 13, 2007
assignment #4
assignment #4
RON GEREN, an actor in Los Angeles, commutes to auditions and jobs throughout Southern California in a sleek black Mazda MX-5 Miata convertible. But for a recent date with a woman, he rented a Cadillac Escalade because he was so used to friends saying his Miata is “gay.
Newsvine.com
The headline for this story was “Is Your Car Gay?” Immediately after I read the lead, I began to laugh. It’s such an unusual thing to say your car is gay. I was curious and wanted to know more about the different cars men think are ‘gay.’ I just think this entire story is hilarious and the lead makes the reader actually want to read the story no matter how ridiculous and pointless it might be.
NEW YORK Apr 13, 2007 (AP)— A man jumped to his death Friday out the window of a 69th-floor law office in the Empire State Building.
Abcnews.com
The reason I found this lead engaging is because it’s unusual to hear of a man jumping off the Empire State Building. Immediately I start to wonder why this man jumped to his death. I want to know the details. How old was he? Did he have a wife and family? The lead does a great job at providing the point of the story, but still making the reader want to know the facts.
ALTAMONTE SPRINGS, Fla. Apr 13, 2007 (AP)— A gunman robbing a convenience store allowed the clerk to call 911 and apologized after the woman said she might be having a heart attack. But he still took $30 and cigarettes, authorities said.
Abcnews.com
I chose this lead because when I think of people robbing stores I picture mean, cruel and threatening robbers with guns pointed at the faces of the innocent. I don’t imagine someone who allows the victims to call for help after they feel ill. The lead makes me laugh because this gunman sounds like the worst and most inexperienced robber I’ve ever heard of. He didn’t even make bank. All he got away with was thirty bucks and cigarettes. I want to read the entire story to see if the robber was captured because I wouldn’t be surprised it he was!
RON GEREN, an actor in Los Angeles, commutes to auditions and jobs throughout Southern California in a sleek black Mazda MX-5 Miata convertible. But for a recent date with a woman, he rented a Cadillac Escalade because he was so used to friends saying his Miata is “gay.
Newsvine.com
The headline for this story was “Is Your Car Gay?” Immediately after I read the lead, I began to laugh. It’s such an unusual thing to say your car is gay. I was curious and wanted to know more about the different cars men think are ‘gay.’ I just think this entire story is hilarious and the lead makes the reader actually want to read the story no matter how ridiculous and pointless it might be.
NEW YORK Apr 13, 2007 (AP)— A man jumped to his death Friday out the window of a 69th-floor law office in the Empire State Building.
Abcnews.com
The reason I found this lead engaging is because it’s unusual to hear of a man jumping off the Empire State Building. Immediately I start to wonder why this man jumped to his death. I want to know the details. How old was he? Did he have a wife and family? The lead does a great job at providing the point of the story, but still making the reader want to know the facts.
ALTAMONTE SPRINGS, Fla. Apr 13, 2007 (AP)— A gunman robbing a convenience store allowed the clerk to call 911 and apologized after the woman said she might be having a heart attack. But he still took $30 and cigarettes, authorities said.
Abcnews.com
I chose this lead because when I think of people robbing stores I picture mean, cruel and threatening robbers with guns pointed at the faces of the innocent. I don’t imagine someone who allows the victims to call for help after they feel ill. The lead makes me laugh because this gunman sounds like the worst and most inexperienced robber I’ve ever heard of. He didn’t even make bank. All he got away with was thirty bucks and cigarettes. I want to read the entire story to see if the robber was captured because I wouldn’t be surprised it he was!
Tuesday, April 10, 2007
assignment 2b
assignment 2b:
Last week, Tim O’Reilly, a conference promoter and book publisher who is credited with coining the term Web 2.0, began working with Jimmy Wales, creator of the communal online encyclopedia Wikipedia, to create a set of guidelines to shape online discussion and debate.
A recent outbreak of antagonism among several prominent bloggers “gives us an opportunity to change the level of expectations that people have about what’s acceptable online,” said Mr. O’Reilly, who posted the preliminary recommendations last week on his company blog (radar.oreilly.com). Mr. Wales then put the proposed guidelines on his company’s site (blogging.wikia.com), and is now soliciting comments in the hope of creating consensus around what constitutes civil behavior online.
Mr. O’Reilly and Mr. Wales talk about creating several sets of guidelines for conduct and seals of approval represented by logos. For example, anonymous writing might be acceptable in one set; in another, it would be discouraged. Under a third set of guidelines, bloggers would pledge to get a second source for any gossip or breaking news they write about.
Bloggers could then pick a set of principles and post the corresponding badge on their page, to indicate to readers what kind of behavior and dialogue they will engage in and tolerate. The whole system would be voluntary, relying on the community to police itself.
The code of conduct already has some early supporters, including David Weinberger, a well-known blogger (hyperorg.com/blogger) and a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School. “The aim of the code is not to homogenize the Web, but to make clearer the informal rules that are already in place anyway,” he said.
But as with every other electrically charged topic on the Web, finding common ground will be a serious challenge. Some online writers wonder how anyone could persuade even a fraction of the millions of bloggers to embrace one set of standards. Others say that the code smacks of restrictions on free speech.
Mr. Wales and Mr. O’Reilly were inspired to act after a firestorm erupted late last month in the insular community of dedicated technology bloggers. In an online shouting match that was widely reported, Kathy Sierra, a high-tech book author from Boulder County, Colo., and a friend of Mr. O’Reilly, reported getting death threats that stemmed in part from a dispute over whether it was acceptable to delete the impolitic comments left by visitors to someone’s personal Web site.
Menacing behavior is certainly not unique to the Internet. But since the Web offers the option of anonymity with no accountability, online conversations are often more prone to decay into ugliness than those in other media.
Nowadays, those conversations often take place on blogs. At last count, there were 70 million of them, with more than 1.4 million entries being added daily, according to Technorati, a blog-indexing company. For the last decade, these Web journals have offered writers a way to amplify their voices and engage with friends and readers.
But the same factors that make those unfiltered conversations so compelling, and impossible to replicate in the offline world, also allow them to spin out of control.
The preliminary recommendations posted by Mr. Wales and Mr. O’Reilly are based in part on a code developed by BlogHer, a network for women designed to give them blogging tools and to guide readers to their pages.
“Any community that does not make it clear what they are doing, why they are doing it, and who is welcome to join the conversation is at risk of finding it difficult to help guide the conversation later,” said Lisa Stone, who created the guidelines and the BlogHer network in 2006 with Elisa Camahort and Jory Des Jardins.
A subtext of both sets of rules is that bloggers are responsible for everything that appears on their own pages, including comments left by visitors. They say that bloggers should also have the right to delete such comments if they find them profane or abusive.
Mr. O’Reilly said the guidelines were not about censorship. “That is one of the mistakes a lot of people make — believing that uncensored speech is the most free, when in fact, managed civil dialogue is actually the freer speech,” he said. “Free speech is enhanced by civility.”
Last week, Tim O’Reilly, a conference promoter and book publisher who is credited with coining the term Web 2.0, began working with Jimmy Wales, creator of the communal online encyclopedia Wikipedia, to create a set of guidelines to shape online discussion and debate.
A recent outbreak of antagonism among several prominent bloggers “gives us an opportunity to change the level of expectations that people have about what’s acceptable online,” said Mr. O’Reilly, who posted the preliminary recommendations last week on his company blog (radar.oreilly.com). Mr. Wales then put the proposed guidelines on his company’s site (blogging.wikia.com), and is now soliciting comments in the hope of creating consensus around what constitutes civil behavior online.
Mr. O’Reilly and Mr. Wales talk about creating several sets of guidelines for conduct and seals of approval represented by logos. For example, anonymous writing might be acceptable in one set; in another, it would be discouraged. Under a third set of guidelines, bloggers would pledge to get a second source for any gossip or breaking news they write about.
Bloggers could then pick a set of principles and post the corresponding badge on their page, to indicate to readers what kind of behavior and dialogue they will engage in and tolerate. The whole system would be voluntary, relying on the community to police itself.
The code of conduct already has some early supporters, including David Weinberger, a well-known blogger (hyperorg.com/blogger) and a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School. “The aim of the code is not to homogenize the Web, but to make clearer the informal rules that are already in place anyway,” he said.
But as with every other electrically charged topic on the Web, finding common ground will be a serious challenge. Some online writers wonder how anyone could persuade even a fraction of the millions of bloggers to embrace one set of standards. Others say that the code smacks of restrictions on free speech.
Mr. Wales and Mr. O’Reilly were inspired to act after a firestorm erupted late last month in the insular community of dedicated technology bloggers. In an online shouting match that was widely reported, Kathy Sierra, a high-tech book author from Boulder County, Colo., and a friend of Mr. O’Reilly, reported getting death threats that stemmed in part from a dispute over whether it was acceptable to delete the impolitic comments left by visitors to someone’s personal Web site.
Menacing behavior is certainly not unique to the Internet. But since the Web offers the option of anonymity with no accountability, online conversations are often more prone to decay into ugliness than those in other media.
Nowadays, those conversations often take place on blogs. At last count, there were 70 million of them, with more than 1.4 million entries being added daily, according to Technorati, a blog-indexing company. For the last decade, these Web journals have offered writers a way to amplify their voices and engage with friends and readers.
But the same factors that make those unfiltered conversations so compelling, and impossible to replicate in the offline world, also allow them to spin out of control.
The preliminary recommendations posted by Mr. Wales and Mr. O’Reilly are based in part on a code developed by BlogHer, a network for women designed to give them blogging tools and to guide readers to their pages.
“Any community that does not make it clear what they are doing, why they are doing it, and who is welcome to join the conversation is at risk of finding it difficult to help guide the conversation later,” said Lisa Stone, who created the guidelines and the BlogHer network in 2006 with Elisa Camahort and Jory Des Jardins.
A subtext of both sets of rules is that bloggers are responsible for everything that appears on their own pages, including comments left by visitors. They say that bloggers should also have the right to delete such comments if they find them profane or abusive.
Mr. O’Reilly said the guidelines were not about censorship. “That is one of the mistakes a lot of people make — believing that uncensored speech is the most free, when in fact, managed civil dialogue is actually the freer speech,” he said. “Free speech is enhanced by civility.”
Assignment 2a
assignment 2a:
1. Lead
2. Backup Lead
3. Elaboration
4. Background
5. Attribution
6. Impact
7. Attribution
8. Ending
1. Lead
2. Backup Lead
3. Elaboration
4. Background
5. Attribution
6. Impact
7. Attribution
8. Ending
Monday, April 9, 2007
assignment #1
Assignment #1:
Pet Food Recall
On Friday, March 16 a major manufacturer of dog and cat food recalled 60 million containers of wet pet food after reports of kidney failure and deaths. The pet food was sold by stores operated by Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Safeway Inc., Kroger Co., PetSmart Inc., and other large retailers. The exact number of cats and dogs who suffered from kidney failure is unknown but about 10 died after eating the affected food.
One form of media where I got most of my information on the news story was the Internet. The Internet is quickly turning into the main source of news dissemination. Not only is it convenient, but breaking news and updates are reported promptly, much faster than any other news medium. In the case of recalls on many major brand pet foods, timeliness of news is a must. Pet owners can check the Internet for any updates or brands that may be included to the recall list. There is however one major con to the Internet as a source of news, some people do not have a Internet much less a computer. Many older people with pets are not as computer savvy and may not be able to find out about pet food recalls. Many of my sources were from news websites. I used abcnews.com to find news on the recall. http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory?id=3013777
Another news medium is radio. Radio appeals to a mass audience of commuter traffic. People who are driving home from work and stuck in traffic only have the radio to keep them company. Radio is much more instant to newspapers also. While radio is instant, it is not very convenient. Sometimes there is a lack of the full story and it is very abbreviated. There is the inability to go back and re-read or re-listen to the news. Those driving do not have access to a pen and paper to write down the brands of pet food being recalled. For my source i used NPR. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9293454
Newspaper has always been a major news disseminator. It is inexpensive and portable. People have the ability to re-read, cut out or post the articles. However, newspaper falls short in reporting breaking news. If a new update comes out later at night, the story will have to wait to be published the next day. This could prove to be a problem if another brad of pet food is found to be affected. For my source i used The Press Enterprise which is the local newspaper from my hometown. I was able to find a story in the newspaper every day, whether it be a feature story or an update.
Pet Food Recall
On Friday, March 16 a major manufacturer of dog and cat food recalled 60 million containers of wet pet food after reports of kidney failure and deaths. The pet food was sold by stores operated by Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Safeway Inc., Kroger Co., PetSmart Inc., and other large retailers. The exact number of cats and dogs who suffered from kidney failure is unknown but about 10 died after eating the affected food.
One form of media where I got most of my information on the news story was the Internet. The Internet is quickly turning into the main source of news dissemination. Not only is it convenient, but breaking news and updates are reported promptly, much faster than any other news medium. In the case of recalls on many major brand pet foods, timeliness of news is a must. Pet owners can check the Internet for any updates or brands that may be included to the recall list. There is however one major con to the Internet as a source of news, some people do not have a Internet much less a computer. Many older people with pets are not as computer savvy and may not be able to find out about pet food recalls. Many of my sources were from news websites. I used abcnews.com to find news on the recall. http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory?id=3013777
Another news medium is radio. Radio appeals to a mass audience of commuter traffic. People who are driving home from work and stuck in traffic only have the radio to keep them company. Radio is much more instant to newspapers also. While radio is instant, it is not very convenient. Sometimes there is a lack of the full story and it is very abbreviated. There is the inability to go back and re-read or re-listen to the news. Those driving do not have access to a pen and paper to write down the brands of pet food being recalled. For my source i used NPR. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9293454
Newspaper has always been a major news disseminator. It is inexpensive and portable. People have the ability to re-read, cut out or post the articles. However, newspaper falls short in reporting breaking news. If a new update comes out later at night, the story will have to wait to be published the next day. This could prove to be a problem if another brad of pet food is found to be affected. For my source i used The Press Enterprise which is the local newspaper from my hometown. I was able to find a story in the newspaper every day, whether it be a feature story or an update.
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