The movie was definitely upsetting to me! It was a great film, but the story it was based on infuriated me. I don't like liars to begin with, but seeing a real-life journalist get away with fabricated stories really does make me mad. At first, I didn't like Chuck Lane. But by the end of the movie, he was my favorite (because of his honesty and fairness). It scared me a little bit, though. I love to write, but the idea of deadlines and competitive journalism scares the hell out of me. Thank God we have fact-checkers for news, otherwise I'm sure there'd be Stephens all over the place; all of them lying to the public. I'd actually enjoy that as a job-- double-checking quotes and people and story lines. Editing someone's stories would be wicked as well! I love correcting grammar and punctuation, so I wouldn't mind doing that for a newspaper or magazine.
As for the class itself, I liked playing around with photoshop (it WAS frustrating, however), and posting our stories on a blog. I thought that was cool. I didn't really like the deadlines (but I told you that already), because I like taking my time on pieces. Writing is something I want to do as a career, and this type of writing I hadn't explored quite yet, so thank you for that. It was a fun, laid-back class, which I needed for 4th quarter!
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