Intro to media journalism

Interview

Brenden Rader #53, TJ Robertson #54, Mitchell Schares #24

Introduction

Kennedy Freshman Boys Basketball Green Team went against Iowa City West on Monday Dec. 17th winning 43-27 make the overall score of wins and loses 5-2. TJ Robertson leading the team with 13 points and 8 rebounds. I contacted both TJ and Mitchell the next evening to ask a couple questions, however i wasn’t able to contact Brendan due to lack of time.

                Starting off I asked both of them how long they have been playing basketball for; TJ has been playing for 10 years while Mitchell has been playing for 9 years. The first things most people ask is why do you play, and that's exactly what I asked next TJ decided to go more in depth talking about his passion for basketball because of how its a competitive sport and how it teaches him valuable life skills like teamwork and communication also working hard  in tough situations. Mitchell kinda went to a different perspective saying that it keeps him in great shape,its a lot of fun, also it makes him forget about all the stress and drama in life.

TJ’s highlight of Monday nights game was when “Ending the kids Basketball career by blocking him” however I wasn’t able to get the “kids” basketball number. Mitchell talked more about  the team working together to win and figuring out what they did wrong. Mitchell also talked about how he was having a hard time making his free throws so he took 4 hours over the weekend and he was happy to make some of them. I asked the both of them if they ever talked about quitting and if so what made them stop. TJ said he never has thought about that however, with Mitchell he stated, “Everything, I don’t give up that’s the last thing on my mind.” Getting pumped for a game can be tough however mitchell and TJ know what to do, Mitchell has a couple was he approaches it but it's different depending on the game  sometimes he might just stay quiet and “channel his energy” or one other way he does is by getting loud with his team, also he listens to music. TJ prefers to watch basketball games and listen to music.

“I love this game and I can't wait to play my next one!”- TJ

How Should Parents Handle a Bad Report Card

• Get in trouble 
• Get told setting up conference
• Meet w/teacher
• Figure out what needs to be done
• On child's butt until grade is better

        That’s what some kids get when there grades are acceptable. Most parents can never understand the grading system A, B, C, D, F. And now it’s will be even more confusing with grades changing to E, P, D, I, N. Nor do they understand that in the beginning of the year their childrens grade will look bad because there is barley anything in there. Sometimes kids get a bad grade on something that won’t even count in the final grade. How do we make parents understand all this? Several kids tend to even hide there report cards if they have a bad grade all because there parents wouldn’t be happy with it. “You can only have A’s” “ Anything below an A your grounded and no phone till you get it back up”  It really depends on the parents if you think about it. At point however their is probably a several kids who wish there parents could understand. Wishing they could understand that their child took all the steps they could but it still wasn’t enough. Can’t parents first ask “what is bad grade on then proceed on to what was the problem to make you do poorly on it then try to help. Not your grounded give me your phone. Just the stress of trying to get a good grade can be part of getting the bad grade. How would you want your parents to react?

What is going on?

https://www.kcrg.com/content/news/Three-repeat-dealers-from-Waterloo-sentenced-to-prison-498336361.html

Should parents be worrying about letting there teenagers go to school? Three drug dealers were took into custody on October 16th. Evidence shows that seven men were caught working with other men to sell cocaine and crack cocaine in the Waterloo area. When first reading this article the first thing that popped in my head was,"Will this spread to Cedar Rapids?" Most likely it has already but we don't actually see it. Teens and maybe even younger people are doing drugs.....at school.....at home, this is just making a very serious issue even bigger. How can parents know there child will be safe? I believe we need to take better action on this kinds of things happening. Yes, I understand that drugs are already illegal and are only supposed to be used for medical purposes however, that has not stopped kids from getting drugs yet. What can we do to make are areas safer? How do we make these rules stronger? 

News Nerd

A dream sparked from her father's work in T.V. which then turned into a goal that she would purse for the rest of her life. She calls herself a “News Nerd” and has a very large involvement in the news. From“Interviewing” as a child to actually doing interviews, her journey has led her on an interesting path. Haynes-Moore’s father worked as a media consultant and would always travel around to meet other news reporters from all over the country. This, along with always being surrounded by the news, originally sparked Haynes-Moore’s passion for media. Her interest in writing and reading throughout elementary and middle school led her to become a student editor on her high school newspaper. 

To follow her goals, Dr.H-M went to a journalism camp in high school. She then attended the University of Missouri where her original major was TV broadcasting. Shortly after, H-M changed her major to print journalism. Once she finished University, she went into a job reporting for the Kirksville Daily Express as a redundant. There, she worked 24/7, even on holidays because of this ,after a year at the Kirksville Daily Express, she decide it was time for a change and moved to Mt. Vernon, Iowa where she became an editor for their weekly paper, the Mt. Vernon Sun . Dr.H-M later joined a small online magazine company, but was bought out by a larger company that she didn’t want to work for because of its size.

 However, her love for people and language arts pushed her to decided to go back to college to become a language arts teacher. Dr.H-M has since been a teacher for 17 years enjoying working with her students. She is also the leader of the Kennedy Torch, a student magazine that covers news, people, sports, and events. When asked if she would ever consider going back to working in broadcasting or print journalism, she responded with “ I have sort of a really great career right now. It sort of blends what I like to do, which is working with students [and] working still in media.”  

Would you ever stop using social media? What if it was for a good reason, would you then? Maggie decided to stop for a unique reason. Like most teenagers, Maggie used social media a lot. Social media was something that made Maggie jealous of other people and their accounts. Mostly because of how many followers, likes, etc. that those other accounts had. Maggie then realized that it shouldn’t be about the followers or the like, it should be something fun for her to do. So, she decided to stop using social media.

            Maggie and her sister got close after that, but it wasn’t that way before. Maggie and her sister Marriah weren’t so close. The three year difference made it hard to see each other. But once finally being in the same school and getting know each other more Maggie realized that Marriah was fun to be around. They could relate to more personal things than friends could ever talk about.

9/21/18

“’So far, poultry losses, as of Sept. 18, are 3.4 million birds. This does exceed poultry losses in Hurricane Matthew,’” Andrea Ashby stated. One of Americas largest chicken producers, Sanderson Farms, Inc. stated they lost around 1.7 million birds to the hurricane. They’re also warning that if they can not gain access to farms that are away from the floodwaters another 6.3 million will be at risk. Sanderson Farms, Inc. believes that the losses of live inventory could escalate if they don not get access to those farms. Sanderson Jr. owner of Sanderson Farms, Inc. stated, “’While we will work hard over the next few weeks to get our operations back on line, our primary focus will be to respond to the needs of our local communities,’” Sanderson Jr. goes on to say “’ We will continue to help those whose lives have been more seriously disrupted.’”