current events 5/23/14

1) http://abc13.com/pets/adorable-bear-cub-charms-police-in-oregon/74726/
police find an adorable black bear cub.
2) http://abc13.com/family/soldier-poses-as-waiter-to-surprise-mom/75002/
a soldier surprises his wife as he dresses as a waiter.
3) http://abc13.com/news/suspected-school-flasher-arrested/73746/
caught the SBISD streaker
4) http://abc13.com/news/cash-and-jewelry-stolen-from-pawn-shop/73393/
robbers caught on cam he still wanted for of course the obvious

chroncurrent events5/16/14

1) http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/
extreme weather in Houston and texas.
2) http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Man-and-woman-wounded-in-Houston-nightclub-5483061.php
man & woman injured in a shooting at a night club.
3) http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Dog-attacks-on-postal-workers-happen-most-often-5480544.php
this tells us our dogs attack post mans the most. very interesting.

Frackingeditorial. 5/13/14

       I am against fracking because it one destroys the land in most cases land was destroyed by the digging up to much land and the chemicals leaving its scar on what was or could have been beautiful land. Two it has the ability to ruin a home or land own by you, because if they have a right to dig on your land they will and you have to deal with it. Three it only gives us two things a well or a oil field you don't get paid unless you own both land and the ground. I just think its not cool having to destroy land for thing like that.
      I am against fracking because it destroy the natural environments and that can ruin the natural life styles of some plants and animals. This process is why you see some animals go extinct its because we are destroying the land they live off of. Fracking is not the only thing that does this but its almost the same as us chopping down the rain forests. just from chopping the forests we kill thousands of animals unknown and known thats not even the worst part we don't always kill animals as we chop down the land but we also kill the earth. the amount of thinks killed are numerous but worst of all in most cases the land will never restore, Digging to much will kill the land and it can make the soil inhabitable to any plant causing the land to have to take time and recover.

I see fracking as something we do for resources. But is it really worth it. is slowly destroying the planet a good thing for things we could ohhh i don't know find a way to make solar or water powered devices, but no we humans are a greedy race and the big oil and other companies only care for money over this planet we live on.

current event 5/12/14

1)   http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=news/local&id=9534621
A story on a boy who disappeared on valentines day he was going to deliver a gift to his girl and wrecked his car he wasn't found until the found a body in the Houston ship channel
2)  http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=news/local&id=9533758
exactly s the title is a driver drove strait into a Whataburger he ment to reverse.
3)http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=news/local&id=9532941
 sex assault of a child by a drama teacher. 16 year old claims to love him
4)http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=news/local&id=9532740
man was ran over by car then shot to death in parking lot.
5)http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=news/local&id=9531204
 man killed by ongoing traffic hit and killed walking on the highway
6)http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=news/local&id=9530508
man his people with his car cause they teased him to much about his killer son.

current event 5/8/14

1) http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=news/local&id=9531684
a humble ISD teacher caught with new and used needles 7 guns and $10,000 in cash a teacher by day a drug dealer a night.
2) http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=news/local&id=9531587
a story of a man who drive into a crowd claims he was harassed till he took action.
3)http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=news/local&id=9531204
a story of a man who was hit and killed jay walking a beltway
4)http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=news/local&id=9530731
a story about a man named francisco cruz charge with animal cruelty agains a poor pony.
5) http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=news/local&id=9531021
parent sue fort bend ISD for child's death.
6)http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=news/national_world&id=9531697
a huge quake happened in mexico city.

headlines exercise 5/5/14

1) http://www.chron.com/news/us/article/Snapped-clamp-eyed-in-circus-accident-2-critical-5452895.php  dangerous circus stunt gone wrong.
2) http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/College-Station-man-plunges-to-death-on-Lake-5452058.php from man up top to man below lake conroe
3) http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/texas/article/Fort-Worth-vet-admitted-keeping-five-caged-dogs-5454052.php animal cruelty at vet in ford worth.

headlines 5/1/14

1) its got to sell the story, tell the facts, be accurate. 

2)be objective don't editorialized, simple but precise, make tone fit content.  

3)make it creative like if it involves soccer make it involve soccer. 

4)avoid passive verbs in headlines.

5)when separating two sentences in a headline do with a semi-colon(;)

6)the main headline should never depend on a kicker or other secondary headline 

Ex. if elected in november, obama 

Says he will get U.S. out of iraq (incorrect)

Ex. Getting out

Obama promises to end iraq war (correct)