YOU'RE
FIVE HOURS FROM PARADISE: Click
the Arts & Life index for a link to
a photo story on how to plan your Yellowstone
getaway. / Photo by Shauna Leavitt
Today's word on
journalism
Friday, September 9, 2005
Scene: Calvin and Hobbes are reading the newspaper.
Calvin: "I
like following the news! News organizations
know I won't sit still for any serious discussion
of complex and boring issues. They give me what
I want: Antics. Emotional confrontation. Sound
bites. Scandal. Sob stories and popularity polls
all packaged as a soap opera and horse race!
It's very entertaining."
Hobbes: "Then
commentators wonder why the public is cynical
about politics."
Calvin: "You
can tell this is an in-depth story because it's
got an article next to a chart."
--Calvin
& Hobbes by cartoonist Bill Watterson, 2005
CAN YOU
TOP THIS?: Skateboard
wizards descended Monday on Logan's Willow Park
for a summer skate
contest sponsored by the Directive skate shop.
The weather was perfect, and the moves . . . spoke
for themselves. / Photos by Jeremy Wilkins
Copyright 1997-2005 Utah State University
Department of Journalism & Communication, Logan UT 84322,
(435) 797-1000
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