TKleiner @ WJMC

Since the site wasn’t working last night here’s my blog for Monday AND Tuesday!

Monday:

      I was confused by Wes Pippert’s  speech, I think that he had all good intentions, and by no means was he trying to confuse us… but his speech left me questioning what he truly thought. He spoke much about telling the truth and making sure to get all the facts and keep them straight…THEN he talked about stretching the truth, and “tweaking” it to allow the story a stronger impact on it’s readers. Although I stood and asked him to clarify his opinions, I’m still at a loss for what message exactly he was trying to convey. Should we tell the truth, and nothing but the truth at all times, or is it okay, as “artists of words” to stretch the truth to make a bigger impact.

      I could have spent the entire week in the Newseum, I loved it so much! There wasn’t one exhibit that I didn’t want to spend hours in. The “FotObama” exhibit was very interesting and shed great light upon our president and his amazing campaigning skills and relatability to the public. The exhibit with all of the newspapers from the 1500s to 2009 was one the coolest things I have ever seen. I wish that I could have spent the day in just that exhibit reading about how people reacted to and reported a certain story when it was breaking for the first time. The wall with the all of the front pages from 9/12/01 was heart-wrenching and hit very close to home. Although I don’t see myself as a photojournalist, the Pulitzer Prize winning photo gallery was captivating and thought-provoking.  The things that many of the photographers had to go through to get the pictures are unfathomable. I can’t imagine what I’d do in such situations. The picture and story that I found to be most interesting was a picture of a young African toddler huddled over from hunger with a vulture watching nearby, the photographer was told not to touch the people in the country so as to not contract any diseases. He did not pick up that little girl, and save her, but her memory could not escape him, less than a year later the man committed suicide, not being able to deal with his decision to just get the picture, and not help the little girl.

*I was planning on reflecting back on both Monday and Tuesday, but I’ve been up for far too long and I’m running on empty! More to come tomorrow, about both today, Tuesday, and, hopefully about, tomorrow, Wednesday!