Response to Student Editor Article

What do you think?

I think that the article really shouldn't have been written yet. By the looks of the article I read, I felt that it was not complete, because they didn't have enough information about the teacher who was supposedly texing some students innappropriately. The question is, "why is this teacher texting these kids in the first place?" She shouldn't even have these kids' numbers. I also think that these kids should know better than to text and have this teacher's number. In the end, I think the editor should wait until authorities have the real factual information, because then the readers of the story won't get the story mixed up and it could turn out to be a very good article.

As members of a journalism class yourself, what would you do if in the editors' shoes?

If I was the editor, like I said in the above response, I would wait until the whole story is all set and done before I begin to write the story, because then the readers won't have any conflict on the story itself.

Fleming Article Response

Journalism Annotation Assignment Directions:

1. Read the article (it’s yours to keep).
2. Annotate the article (highlight, underline, make notes in the margins) as you read it.
3. Answer the following questions on this handout:

A. What is the article about?

This article is about a man named Fleming Taylor, who was known to be a homeless man in Nyack, New York. Every day he would go to Starbucks with spare change and buy coffee and many other things. Not only did he buy things, but he would always strike up many different conversations with other customers and make them feel good about themselves. He never talked about himself. He always wanted to know how you were. He was considered a very nice and wise old gentleman until he recently passed away from a cerebral hemorrhage. Fleming had made many friends at Starbucks and he will be greatly missed.

B. What do you think about the material/information in this article? How does it seem to fit with our journalism class?

This article was very well written and it was very sad. It gave me Goosebumps when I finished reading. This article fits with our class in many ways. They used many quotes from others and Peter Applebome, the writer of the article, also used some paraphrasing techniques and also used the five “w” method like we do for journalism. He really made the story flow well.

C. What questions are you left with? What kind of articles in journalism would you like to read next?

It would be very helpful to know a little bit more of Fleming’s background information and maybe to understand the reason why he was a homeless man. I would like to read articles just like this one, because I got the chills reading this article.