Response to Addison

  I was having a great time reading through all of my fellow Journalism and Communications freshmen blogs; I enjoyed seeing all of the different writing styles and what each person brought to the table. When I clicked on Addison Evers's blog addawarness.blogspot.com, my immediate thought was, "Wow. She has all seven blogs done." And it was true. All of her blogs were in great detail and very thoughtful. When I came to her blog about print journalism, I couldn't agree more. When I go back to that day, I was already exhausted even though the day had just begun, and I was hoping Mr. Miller would bring another intriguing lecture for us so that I could wake up. Print journalism had always been something I really enjoyed and was interested in, so my mind flitted awake when the word was brought up, just as Addison said. I thought we would be learning about the basics of print journalism and how it was different from other mediums. We did learn about print journalism basics, but that day's lecture was really about the evolution of print journalism and how it came to be today, as Addison stated in her post as well. I definitely agree that I want to learn more about how to write print journalism, but I do realize that we need to understand the "backbone" first, as Addison called it, in order to be able to write great print journalism.