Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Newspaper Log- Wednesday March 31st

Today's paper surprised me with the amount of articles that interested me. I read (not completely though) five articles. Some I read through the entire article, and some I just read the first few paragraphs.
One of the articles I read completely through was called, "Access to Google is Interrupted in China." The article pretty much just informed us that late last night, Google wasn't working in much of China. At first Google thought they had the problem, but later found out that Google wasn't causing the problem. There are speculations that the country might have blocked Google for this amount of time to "get back" at them for pulling out of Beijing and operating a new uncensored website out of Hong Kong.
Another article I read fully through was called, "Through Cage Bars, an Exotic Peek Into Drug Wars." This article touched my heart because of all of the terrible things the author described that happened to these animals. Most of them were beaten by their owners and forced to take illegal and harmful substances. I feel like this article most definitely displays the element of journalism that is "journalists must make the significant interesting and relevant." The author of this article at one point describes a lion that has been taken into this sanctuary to become healed and his diet before he was admitted. The lion used to eat the flesh of death-squad victims. The article captivated me all the way until the end, bringing up examples of all different animals at the sanctuary one after the other. This type of description definitely falls under the category of "interesting" in my opinion.

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