Wednesday, 8/31: I felt that the article about the damages due to Hurricane Irene ended abruptly. I wanted more of a human interest aspect to it in that I wanted interviews from homeowners affected by the hurricane. Maybe I’m being naïve because – obviously – it’s The New York Times, and they’re focused more on the officials. I didn’t like the piece on A9 about the Nigerian militants, despite its length, or lack thereof. I was annoyed at how the author quoted two officials – it might have even been the same official – who was “not authorized to speak publicly.” It annoyed me because I wanted to know who has the authority to criticize the governments, both Nigerian and American. Lastly, I read the front page/A8 piece about the Dominican Republic’s actions against Haitian refugees, and saw that on A8 there’s a picture of Benie Boner, but there was no mention him in the article. I wanted a quote from him about his story, because the caption just said he was fingerprinted and part of the deportation program in the Dominican Republic.
Thursday, 9/1: I don’t have as many negative opinions as I did yesterday. While the piece about the London housing market slump and rich homeowners’ solutions, I don’t see how that pertains to me, seeing as I am not rich and am pretty sure I don’t own property anywhere, let alone London. I did like the piece about Florida’s efforts to stop pill mills, including getting the sellers/prescribers. I also liked the phone merger piece because it attempted to show both sides – the phone companies and the government – in an unbiased way.
Monday 9/5: Labor Day, Hamilton Smith was locked so I couldn’t get my copy of the NYT.
Tuesday 9/6: I decided to change it up a little and went straight for the science section. I loved the article about children born from sperm donors and the possibility of a registry to find their half-brothers and sisters. While it the article didn’t make front page, it was mentioned at the bottom. I did like the article about how our brains hear sound and psychoacoustics, but I felt that it was too long. It seemed to drag on for too many paragraphs and shouldn’t have been a full half page of text (continued on D4 from D1).
Wednesday 9/7: I went to the arts section believing I would find pieces about music, theater, films, etc. only to find pictures of the Real Housewives taking up quarter of the page and a story of how Bravo is selling itself. After I read it, I gave up on the rest of the arts section and read about strikes in Italy on A4. I had no idea that Italy was going through so many financial problems, but I that’s why people need to read/watch/listen to the news.
Thursday 9/8: I decided to give the arts section another chance today. I like the arts section because of their shorter articles (not that I don’t like to read longer news articles, I – like many readers – had less patience today than in the past week. I like the piece on C-SPAN’s new series about the presidential candidates who didn’t win. I’m considering watching it this weekend at some point. I also read the Spirit of the City piece. I liked the writer’s description of the images; I could imagine it which – I’m sure – was the writer’s intention.
Monday 9/12: I liked the lede for the Kennedy article, at first it didn’t seem like a summary lede until I read it again. It had who, what, when, and where pieces in it. We went over the Medvedev article in class. The lede for the piece on families visiting the 9/11 memorial was correctly written as a delayed one. It was emotional and shouldn’t have had a fact-based lede.
Tuesday 9/13: I like the piece about the Libyan women taking part in the war and the writer’s decision to compare them to Rosie the Riveter. I think the gay bullying article took too long to quote anyone. Also, I wanted to know which conservative Christian groups the writer was talking about in the second paragraph. Not much else stood out to me.
Wednesday 9/14: I decided to take a break from the sad news and to read the dining section. Some of the review articles were over my head, and I decided that I would never really want to write reviews for restaurants (that and I’m a picky eater). However, I did find the article about different measuring techniques interesting. I didn’t know that people put so much thought into proving that an amount of an ingredient is really that amount.
Thursday 9/15: I went directly to the Palestinian demonstration preparation piece because of the picture of a soldier helping a Palestinian girl past the barbed wire. It shows how design – especially pictures – in a paper can affect the reader. I didn’t think that the story about the University of Maine’s uniforms quite deserved front page. I feel that it would have been better if it had a smaller section saying where the article was.
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