Okay, so this chapter is about "Writing News for Radio and Television." It begins with using 9/11 as an example. I remember hearing about 9/11 for the first time. I had just came back from learning about the student handbook, in 8th grade. My teachers all turned on the tvs and radios so we could hear about the updates about the incident in our country. My friends were running around screaming that they thought the Backstreet Boys were "trading" day in the World Trade Center. It was quite the day. I remember that news that day wasn't so certain but tried their hardest to give all they could. The only images I remember from those broadcasts are the Twin Towers falling. I feel like that is pretty normal though.
It's crazy that one half-hour newscast has only 22 minutes of news, which equals half of a front page in newspaper. What's even crazier is how many people get their news solely from broadcast news.
The audio and visual aspect of broadcast news is now being used in print news, that is in online forms. I think that makes broadcast news have to work even harder to use their other forms of media in the best way possible.
"You can't shoot video of an issue." It is necessary to have people in a broadcast news story. Without a living, breathing person there would be essentially no story.
I like the sections on using "conversation style" and "tight phrasing" in writing for television and radio. It says to avoid the passive voice and to use transitive verbs in the active voice. It also says that people rarely talk in the passive voice...it's funny because I think I talk in the passive voice a lot. It sucks because it transfers to my writing. I'm catching it more now though. It also says to not be wordy...another one of my faults in speaking and writing. I am SO wordy. I never know the most direct way to say something. It's like I stumble over words and mash them up to try to make something comprehensible.
The last thing I found important in this chapter was how to structure the story. That whole section was helpful.
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