William F. Buckley Jr.

Mr. Buckley Jr. contributed to the public was how to view politicians and what we, as Americans should say to view a politicians campaign for the presidency, but also view that the CIA and our government can have a few problems with getting information out to the public in order to protect national security.

No, he couldn't compete in today's multimedia world because every piece of technology it starting to become digital and information is being presented from many broadcast companies.

I found that I wouldn't not use negative opinions about a politician because it would make the government come after me and try to humiliate the rest of my life if the information presented was false, but also if it destroyed that politicians credibility.

COM 317- Obama: Plagiarism?

Facts: Obama uses words from previous speeches in which he was plagiarizing. Clinton views this as an unpolitical action to get voters to support Obama's campaign.

Ethics: Clinton tries to make Obama look bad to get voters to support her campaign. She also believes that Obama is using libel.

Principles: It involves not only libel, but slander also because Obama used the written material and spoke out to the public by following the script his writers wrote for him.

I would decide this issue as a speechwriter and as a news reporter by not using another persons work and saying that it is your own.

Compare and Contrast - Bull Run and Iraq

The Battle of Bull Run and the Iraq War are similar because both reporters have seen many soldiers wounded in battle, heard the sirens, explosions, and gun fire coming from all directions, but also, each reporter has viewed how war can be very destructive to not only people, but to civilizations.

The major difference betweeen these two stories is the timeline. Bull Run had limited resources to build guns which were revolvers, cannons, and muskets. The Iraq story has technology that is advanced for the soldiers such as grenades, tanks, jets, assault rifles, and better equipment for the soldiers to get around big obstacles. The reporter in the Civil War had to write the story out with pen and paper, while the reporter in Iraq can broadcast the war over the television.

COM 317- Point of view

1. The clearest point that I have learned in COM 317 is how the law has been unfair in the past towards people based on race and gender.

2. The confusing point is why some reporters abandon their morals and only worry about their scoop for a paper.

3. I would like to learn how to keep your morals and still get a story at the same time without having to give up one of your own morals just to get a story.

Court Cases

Abrams v. United States

Facts: Several counts of an indictment, conspiracy to violate Espionage Act, resistance to the United States in the war with Germany.

Issue of law: prosecuted under Espionage Act.

Good Quote: against President Wilson: "He [the President] is too much of a coward to come out openly and say: 'we capitalistic nations cannot afford to have a proletarian republic in Russia."

Whitney v. California

Facts: memeber of a Socialist Party, a resident of Oakland in Alameda County, California.

Issue of law: plaintiff charged with five accounts for violating the Criminal Syndicalism Act.

Good Quote: "Our power [...] limited not only to the question [...] guaranteed by the Federal Constitution [...] but to the particular claims [...]"

Near v. Minnesota

Facts: punish Near for abusing liberty of the press, Near is protecting his right as a citizen.

Issue of law: protection of the 1st Amendment.

Good Quote: "Liberty of the press is not an absolute right, and the state may punish its abuse (p. 708)."

COMM 317- "Make No Law"

1. They are all terms of false libel that gives people the right to make any statement about the government. They had an effect on the freedom of speech because the freedom fries, liberty cabbage gave people the right to speak openly while the Sedition and Espionage Acts limted citizens the right to speak out in public. The freedom of the press granted major media corporations the right to tell stories in their own format, but they were also limited not to tell things that the government does not want the public to hear.

2. The specific things that the Alien and Sedition Acts prohitbited civilians to make any false statements verbally and written on paper about the government actions. The punishment today is still the same as it was back in the 18th century.

His Girl Friday Continued

Molly is being asked questions on where Earl is located and she fell out the window being seriously injured. After that incident, Walter takes charge of the situation and tries to find out from Hildy where Earl Williams is hiding.

The Morning Post will possibly have a story on Earl Williams breaking out of jail by Walter because he was told about a flood in China and he considered it not to be very newsworthy. Bruce, Hildy, and Walter are all talking at once about the story and the relationship between Hildy and Bruce. Walter hires Roy Bensinger to help with the newspaper by giving him a better pay grade than what he got from the Chicago Tribune.

Walter seems to not care about the Mother because he only cares about the paper. Walter had conversations on the phone and he raised his voice when something big happened and he demanded to know more about the story.

Williams was hiding in the desk and Walter and Hildy were placed under arrest. Walter threatens the sheriff with the media power he has for The Morning Post, then Pettibone came in to tell Walter about a story he has to report and the Mayor and everyone went to the Governor's office to tell the story.

Walter told Hildy that he was jealous when he is noble while Hildy found out that Bruce was arrested for counterfeit money. Walter tries to comfort Hildy and tells Duffy to cancel the story and let Hildy write it and that he will marry her.

His Girl Friday Continued

Walter puts the blame on something else even though he knows that his is responsible for what happened between him and Hildy. Hildy tries to get a story from a prisoner named Earl Williams by asking him how he felt when he had a gun in is hands. Card players are the bad guys by using Hildy to get Earl out of prison since they are part of the mob. Mollie Madison cares about her husband in which the card players will not bail him out of prison. Walter doesn't care how the story of Earl Williams is written just as long as he gets the story into the paper first. A jail break occured to get Earl Williams out of jail as Hildy rushes to the scene to get a big story. Reporters mention a tear bomb in which a bomb squad was called in to defuse the bomb during the jail break. The card players are also doing a report that Hildy is trying to get the big scoop.

Hildy tells Walter about the jail break so that he can possibly get a chance to publish the story. Walter mentions $450 in counterfeit. Sheriff Peter got an unknown tip on where Earl is located. Birbery erupts about the Earl Williams story in which a reporter is being offered $350 a month.

Earl Williams is threating to kill Hildy because he is tired and in fear of being executed. Earl Williams is possibly the victim in the movie. All reporters are talking at once.