Monday, December 2, 2013

Paul Walker and Related Deaths

As reporters we have to examine news for what it means to our audience.

Paul Walker was a celebrity; our audience watched his movies.

Paul Walker dies in a car accident where speeding was a problem; young people are most likely to be involved in a car accidents within the first year of getting their licenses.
These are two ways we relate to Paul Walkers tragic accident.
Watch this video.

ASSIGNMENT:

Continue your research on how celebrities deaths-- that always make headlines-- relate to us.
Find a minimum of two articles on each of the following celebrities who've made the news in death.

Lee Thompson Young
Cory Montieth
Michael Clark Duncan


Give me two ways their stories relate to our audience.
Send me this information in complete sentences in an email to restaino.edu @gmail.com
Please include the names of our sources.

IN ADDITION:

In that same email, tell me about a car accident where a person under the age of 18 was the driver and cashed. Attach a link to that source.

This assignment must be complete before the Open-Closed Ended Questions presentation.
It is independent. 
It is worth 10 pts. for accuracy and completion.

If you finish early, please look ahead to this presentation on Open and Closed Ended Questions for interviews.

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