Guest Speaker 12/4/2009

I found that Cornelius Swart was very informative and was well worth attending. I thought it very interesting how he and his staff do so much work on a tight budget and yet still publish a paper for our community. When he was talking about how he and his staff operate I found it important to hear that a reporter shoud write something, leave their own bias and opinion out of it, then criticize or analyze what they wrote. as sort of a double check for themselves that all the acts are straight and that things make sense before turning it into an editor or publisher. i feel that looking at things with this point of view when reporting on something will definatley help my writing in that it will make me step back and look at things through the eyes of someone who would be reading the story for the first time and has no prior knowledge or assumptions about things related to the story. I like how he said to ALWAYS ask questions and to not assume anything. We should always be anaysing everything, every little detail, every little piece of any story that we might be covering.

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