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My prerogative
Monday, November 27, 2006If i want to die now you can't do anything about it coz its my deciscion. Could be both right and wrong.
If i want to do something,i do it because i want to do it, and you can't do anything about it. It's my life and nobody has the right to interfere with my deciscions unless i give you the permission to do so.
I am my parents daughter but that doesnt mean that their deciscion is my deciscion.I have a mind of my own, a life of my own and ideas of my own.
Everything im doing si my prerogative so lay off and mind your own business!!!
Im a girl, so what?
I know i was born female, so what? You dont need to remind me every minute of my life that i was born to suffer the pains of menstrual cycle, dysmenorrhea and child birth. you dont need to remind me that my gender has disadvantages in me. i know it. And believe me, im used to it.
Women too can do what men can. Though of course, i wont deny thef act that not everything that men can. And yes, i will staisfy you with the fact that there are somethings that women can't satisfactorily accomplish like men can. But, hell!We can compete with the world. It has been proven already. So what's with the discrimmination?
The hell with those men who refuses to accept that women now is empowered and educated. That women too can conquer the world. I dont compete with men, and i dont have the paln to do so. I just hate it when every minute of my life i would be reminded that i am female.
What's with being female?Would it kill them if i managed to do what they can do?
A girl named I
Yesterday, i was staring at the glass door in one of the buildings in school. I was hoping to see my reflection, but i didnt get one.
I stared and stared but a different face stares back at me.
I dont know her, but she looks sad. MAybe she's also tired like me.
She looks at me like an x-ray searching my innermost secrets.She knows me, i can feel it. But i dont know if i know her.
I tried holding her but i cant.
Then she cried.
and i felt tears in my eyes.
The right kind of wrong
Sunday, November 26, 2006I know its a song, but it bothers me.
Is there really a right kind of wrong?
How can something be right when it is wrong.
wrong is wrong, and it is never right.
or could something wrong be something right?
Self-parading fools
There are many kinds of fool. However, there is one kind that most of us always exemplifies. You may not agree when somebody calls you a fool, but in reality all of us are fools.
We have the tendency to be self-parading fools.
You know what that is?
It's the attitude of being proud of something that should have been ashamed of.
Some people are proud that they have more than 1 partner, other girls are proud that they'v engage in pre-marital sex, and some are proud of their negative attitudes. Things that we should be ashamed of but we proudly tell other people.
Shouldn't you be ashamed of these things?Shouldn't this be something that you would rather keep in private?
YOu dont have to be proud because you've hurt somebody's feeling or you have stupidly gave yourself to somebody you're not even sure of you would still have tomorrow. They are things that should have been kept and should have made you ashamed but instead, you bragged it to your friends.
The bible calls this kind of people, self parading fools.
You think you're not guilty of it?
try censoring everything that comes out of your mouth and tell me if you've never bragged about something you would rather keep.
Have you earnestly tried friends that you're maldita, suplada and have answered your parents, or have tried drugs or smoked?Have you ever bragged to somebody that you've cheated and was never caught?Have you ever tried flirting with somebody then proudly told your friends about it?
the list is endless, and i dont know if i could ever finish writing everything here if i try to.
but if you've tried any of the things above, then dont be angry the next time somebody calls you a fool. Because honestly speaking, you're not the only one.
Bitches…
I hate my classmates. They're being bitchy again. They know that we have to start building the booths this week, but where are they? And they would blame me and say i did'nt inform them?
The hell with them!
I've beenm txting them since saturday and what?they never responded, they never cared.
Their so irresponsible.
why the negative?
Friday, November 24, 2006It has always been the question of our school administrators. Why do we always have to publish the negative stories happening in our school. They even blames us of smearing the name of the school instead of giving it pride.
So why do we have to?
Is it just merely to have something to publish?
No.
LEt's face it, its happeing. The problem with them theyr efuse to open their eyes to reality. They want to sugarcoat everything, they want to cover everything and want us to publish only those "good stuff".
That's not journalism!
Journalism is all about the truth. What we publish are truths and we have to publish it because students have the right to know everything happening inside the school.
We cannot and will not cover anything because it si our duty to tell the truth.
Do i have to remind them that we are not high school publication that only takes the good isde of the school.
IF they dont want their dirty linens aired in public then why wont they do their duties? Why wont they simply do good so we would publish good stuff for them?
I guess the truth really hurts. ISnt it?
OBITUARY FOR COMMON SENSE!
Today we mourn the passing of a beloved old friend by the
name of Common Sense who has been with us for many years.
No one knows for sure how old he was since his birth
records were long ago lost in bureaucratic red tape.
He will be remembered as having cultivated such value
lessons as knowing when to come in out of the rain, why
the early bird gets the worm and that life isn't always
fair.
Common Sense lived by simple, sound financial policies
(don't spend more than you earn) and reliable parenting
strategies (adults, not kids, are in charge). His health
began to rapidly deteriorate when well intentioned but
overbearing regulations were set in place.
Reports of a six-year-old boy charged with sexual
harassment for kissing a classmate; teens suspended from
school for using mouthwash after lunch; and a teacher
fired for reprimanding an unruly student, only worsened
his condition.
It declined even further when schools were required to get
parental consent to administer aspirin to a student; but,
could not inform the parents when a student became
pregnant and wanted to have an abortion. Finally, Common
Sense lost the will to live as the Ten Commandments became
contraband; churches became businesses; and criminals
received better treatment than their victims. Common Sense
finally gave up the ghost after a woman failed to realize
that a steaming cup of coffee was hot, she spilled a bit
in her lap, and was awarded a huge settlement.
Common Sense was preceded in death by his parents, Truth
and Trust, his wife, Discretion; his daughter,
Responsibility; and his son, Reason. He is survived by two
stepbrothers; My Rights and Ima Whiner.
Not many attended his funeral because so few realized he
was gone. If you still know him pass this on, if not join
the majority and do nothing.
*Copied from: www.myyearbook.com
Im an alien!
Well, not necessarily the E.T type with all the telekinesis and stuff like that.
Im an alien in a place where i dont really feel i belong. I am an outsider to their traditons and practices. I am left out and disoriented to with the place, not to mention, i always get lost and left totally paranoid during conversations.
I admit, it has been a year since i first stepped in this world inhabited by visayan speaking people but until now people still make fun of the way i speak.
I always felt like an alien here. Not knowing what to say or how to react most of the time. There are times when i have to stay expressionless and risk being called dumb becasue i dont understand what the rest of the people around me is saying. I can understand a little, and i think i could say that it is an improvement. Im trying to learn the dialect to conversate with them, the problem is, most of the time they would only make fun of me and my intonation.
yes, i admit that my bisaya is embarassing because i often say it with the ilonggo intonation.And i often misuse the words not to mention misunderstand it. I dont really know how to use the words in a sentence so i have to mix it with english and tagalog. Most of the times i speak in english entirely, and well as expected my schoolmates would sometimes look at me with raised eyebrows and think that im "sosyal" and "maarte". I dont have the choice. I would rather be called maarte than be embarassed with their laughters if i try to explain in bisaya.
Thinking about it, the only time i could really speak in bisaya is when i buy something or ride a pedicab. I often stay in the office (School paper) and we speak in english there. In my boarding house i speak in ilonggo since my roommate is ilongga also. I do speak in bisaya sometimes but they are not really spoken straight and without intonation. Let's just say that they are often adulterated bisaya.
I do hope people here will learn to accept the dialect i grew up with. I dont want them to really try learning it, but i just hope they would stop laughing at me because they are not really helping me with that. I guess its just an unconscious prejudice with the dialect that force them to do it. Im trying very hard to understand them because frankly speaking, i dont have a choice.
i know i cant eally force them to stop because i know we ilonggos do that also if we hear visayans speak.
I guess i just have to bear with them since this is their territory, so to speak.
I dont know if i will ever learn this dialect much more love it.
but i guess im starting to learn..though its quite slow but i at least im trying.
Defending the defenders:
I dont even know why i have to or if i really have to but a part of me says, i dont have to ask for the why what matters is i did.
So what i am talking about? And who am i reffering to?
I had always been fascinated by soldiers. I want to be a soldier, that is no secret to the people who knew me. Ever since i was a child i never had the chance to play with dolls (even if my parents always bought me one) because i had always loved playing with guns and crawling in a muddy drainage with my brother palying soldiers. However, it is not my experience nor my dream that i want to talk about. It's about the Armed Forces of the Philippines.
Controversies have been hitting the Armed Forces for the past years. I can't really say if they're true or not , but i always think its unfair to generalize the armed forces, especially the graduates of the country's prestigious military academy.
I had always believed in the capacity of our Armed forces, and i always believe that we have the best officers/ soldiers in the world. They had been trained to be the best, they always do their best, but they lack our support. Some of them may have threaded a path far from what most of us have expected but i really hope we wont forget those who still do. There are thousands of soldiers who risks their life for our protection, the fault of one should not be pass to them. One officer's fault is not the fault of the whole AFP nor their alma mater.
I had always said it, and now i'll say it again, PMA isnot a rehabilitation center nor a reformation school. Those who study there are merely humans and not angels nor saints. PMA has tried its best to educate them and molded them to be individuals worthy to be called officers, whatever their attitudes are after they graduate should not be blamed solely to the academy since the academy did its best already. Their are humans after all. Which simply means that they have their own ideologies, principles and beliefs in life that no matter how much squatthrust or indoctrination is given to them has been a part of their being that could not be qench forever. If you send your child to a seminary, do you really expect that he would come out with wings and halo? of course not!
If you would blame all the faults to PMA, why not blame the seminary also for producing some priests who abuses their position?
The soldiers of teh Armed Forces risks their life for people like me. They dont know me, i dont know them but they choose to suffer, risk their lives, be far from their families so i could enjoy my life. This is the least that i can do for them.
For every soldier who commits a mistake, there are thousands of others who risks their lives for the people they never knew and never cared for them. For every officer who abuses their postion there those who continously do their job of protecting the people they promised to serve. For every person that criticizes them, there will be others like me who will continue to support them.
I maybe crazy for defending them, but i had looked at their lives closely. They may have been shadowed by controversies but i had always tried to see them from a different side.
I continually believe that there are those who's still worthy of my trust. One soldier who abuses his authority is nothing compared to thousands of others who never ceased to be true to their oath.
And for whatever it's worth, I will always have my faith in the Armed Forces of the Philippines.
There is no such thing as ABSOLUTE TRUTH
There are always two sides of the story right?So whoever said that journalists should present the absolute truth should learn considering it.
In every story, especially in a controversial one or a story that involves two person the truth could never be absolute. You can get the side of both parties but there is always the pssibility that what you write is not exactly the truth.
the idea of truth is subjective. It depends on what is true for us and how we define it. One thing may be true for me but not for the rest of the world. Something may prove true for the others but not for me.
Our value of truth depends on our perception of the truth. In defending ones self, the person is not necessarily lying but merely presenting his side of the truth. The problem is, the truth for him is seen differently by others. With the notion that "majorityu rules" we tenmd to misjudge a person because the rest of us thinks that because we unite on our view of the truth what the person is presenting should be false.
That is the problem with people.
Is it wrong to dream?
Tuesday, November 21, 2006All of us got dreams right? All of us have the right to dream, be it possible or totally bizarre. No matter how weird our dreams maybe it should be respected by the people around us. Then why is it that everybody is mocking me whenever i tell them that (ok here it goes…don't hold your breath)i want to be a…(whew!i don't think i can say it…SOS!)soldier.
Ok there it is.
Laugh if you want. Whatever!
Im used to it.
Anyway,do you really have to hurt me just because my dream is not as normal as yours?
Do you have to say that im a freak because i care for this people alot?
do you have to say that im totally out of my mind for praying that they may at elast be safe whoever or whereever they maybe?
Why can't people just simply respect the rights of others to dream.
Dreams are for free, and its not hurting anybody so why does it always bother the people around me?
nobody really understands.
JOURNALISM TERMS AND JARGONS
(source: University of Kings- School of journalism: http://journalism.ukings.ca/journalism_3925.html)
2-shot: most often an interview guest and the back of the reporter’s head. Also used in re: any shot including two people.
“the 6” …or the 11, etc. The newscast airing at the time referred to.
16:9 (sixteen-nine): the “letterbox” ratio of horizontal to vertical on the screen. Many programs are now being shot in 16:9. It’s still uncommon in daily news, but will become the standard as HD advances.
24-hour clock: get familiar with it, if you want to be able to read a show lineup or a feed list. Example: 1 pm is 1300 on a 24-hour clock. NOTE: When working across time zones, remember to check whose 1300 it is!
AC: alternating current. The plug in the wall vs. the battery belt. (aka “shore power”)
AD: associate director—usually similar to production assistants or researchers. AD’s do a range of jobs, including circulating scripts, working in the control room (with the director), or doing logistical jobs such as timing the program or booking feeds.
AVO or VO : announcer voice-over. Announcer reads a script (often but not always live) over pictures. When there’s a clip, it’s…an AVO-clip, or VO-clip.
Other terms include: VCV (voice-clip-voice), VOSOT (VoiceOver/Sound On Tape)
Academy leader: see countdown
ad lib: (semi-) spontaneous, unscripted talking. “The host can ad lib about the convention if we need to fill extra time.”
add – new version of a script, or a new addition to the lineup. “The hostage-taking story is a late add.” See also sub.
air: not much actually goes directly through the air to the Folks At Home anymore, but we still use the word. Also…go to air: program start—“Our 6 o’clock news actually goes to air at 17:59:45.”
aircheck: recording of a program for logging or screening purposes.
airtime: time on TV: “They burned an hour of airtime with that live newser and I still don’t know what the story is.”
Amnets: American networks, as in, “Yippee! We beat the Amnets on that story by a full hour.”
assignment editor: similar to print, one of the principal people on a news desk (hierarchies vary). An assignment editor keeps track of what’s going on in the newsroom’s coverage area, maintains an outlook for the day, the lookahead for tomorrow, and the futures file.
autocue: a system of mirrors and lenses which displays a newsreader’s script as a superimposed moving image on the camera lens, so the reader doesn’t have to look down (much) while reading. Various trademarked names, including the old TelePrompTer.
AVID: Company which makes a range of editing suites for video and film. Most broadcasters run AVID… so it’s often used to describe any non-linear edit suite/process…just as “Scotch tape” is used for all brands. See also Leitch.
axis: imaginary line through a scene. As a general rule, the camera should stay on one side of the axis to prevent (e.g.) two people in separate shots from appearing to look in the same direction while speaking, instead of one facing right, and the other left.
BG background. Could be background information or background of a shot.
BGS: background sound.
BLT : bright, light and trite. Snarky term for a cheery story with no news value.
B-roll : This term is a leftover from film days. Refers to pictures (often generic) used to cover a reporter’s voiceover. This term makes some people (incl. me) twitch: it sounds as if you don’t care what the pics are, as long as there’s cover.
backtime: Noun: If a show is ten minutes long, and you’re three minutes in, you have seven minutes left. Seven minutes is the backtime.
Verb: Figuring out where you are in relation to where you want to get. Some people who have spent years as AD’s, backtiming shows, can still backtime in their heads.
bagger: slang for a piece that will play anytime, usually during a slow season or at the last minute. “I’m doing three baggers—one on kids’ toys, one on holiday recipes, and one on department store Santas—before I take off for Christmas.” Other terms: on the shelf, in the can.
bars: colour bars are used to test video signal, to make sure the colours are true and/or match the bars generated from other sources (cameras, control room, video feeds).
Betacam: Sony’s Betacam is the industry standard for professional video. It is not the same format as the Betamax video which competed with VHS in the 1980’s (and lost)
bin: in non-linear editing..one of the (imaginary) file folders you dump your digitized images and clips before you start to edit.
black: see control track.
bins: metaphorical drawers, holding files of digitized tape. In non-linear editing, sections of field tape are digitized into the AVID and stored in bins. This sounds confusing but it will become clear with your first edit.
bird: slang for satellite. “Book the bird” means to make a satellite booking.
bite: a short sound clip. May be a quote, or some natural sound—chanting, storm noise, etc.
bridge: standup in the middle of an item…bridging from one chapter to another.
billboards: promo or tease inside the body of a show.
block: the “blocks” of a newscast are like the sections of a newspaper. “A” Block or Block 1 would contain the top news stories; “B” Block could be weather, and so on. Blocks are usually framed by commercials.
boards: 1. full-screen graphics, such as a map, or a transcribed quote from a viewer mailbag. The graphics in a weather block may be called the weather boards (CBC).
2. see billboards.
bumpers: see sting. As on cars or boats, a bumper on TV keeps things from crashing up against each other…you can have a bumper going into or out of commercial, for example, espy if there’s a sad story that might run up against a commercial with dancing clowns.
Locally: ATV calls bumpers a tease with vo script, for an upcoming story.
CA : see current affairs
can: in the…, building a…. An item is finished ahead of deadline: it’s in the can. If you’re doing a number of Christmas baggers, you’re building a holiday can.
cans (pl.): headsets.
capture: another term for digitize or ingest. After you’ve captured your tape on the computer, you can start your edit.
cell: sometimes used to describe the graphic that appears above the host’s shoulder during an intro in a newscast.
chocolate bar: some Betacam camera batteries look like thick, heavy chocolate bars.
clip: Some people in the real world refer to a report as a “clip”…but news people hardly ever do, at least hereabouts.
The term comes from the olden days of film, when the editor would literally cut out (clip) a piece of film containing an interview quote, and then physically insert it into the story. Would you get a clip on gas prices from the finance minister when you’re at the legislature this morning?
Also used as a verb: Can you clip the finance minister for me this morning?
close-up (see shot sizes and framing)
control track: (see also black) A track of electronic pulses, laid down on videotape while shooting or before editing, which maintains continuous timecode and enables more complex edits.
Or, as an editor once told me, “It makes the pictures stick better.”
countdown (Academy leader, leader, beeps, d-cue, digital): the "5, 4, 3, 2.." that goes before the start of an taped item.
cover: pictures that “cover black” between the clips in your story. NOTE: If you ask someone to
“shoot some cover,” it helps to tell him/her what the pics will be covering…unless you just want wallpaper. See also B-roll.
crawl: type moving across the screen. Most all-news stations have a headline crawl moving constantly across the bottom of the screen.
crease: once you’ve seen a crease in a tape, right in the middle of your best clip or the only good take of your standup…you’ll never forget what a crease looks like.
crossfade: to fade out one source (usually audio) and fade up another at the same time as a kind of transition. In video it’s called a dissolve.
cross-scripting : writing or talking about one thing while showing another. Talking about a criminal while showing a picture of the victim is bad cross-scripting.
current affairs: open to lively and sometimes cranky debate. Depending on who’s doing the defining, current affairs is: a more thoughtful take on people, events, issues and behind-the-scenes goings-on in the news; an investigative piece which may in fact break news; a looonnng news story; a fancy name for a feature; an excuse to spend a week on one story while everyone else is out there making sausages, etcetc.
cut: the simplest of edits, which cuts from one picture to another. Different from fades, wipes, and dissolves.
cutaway: when you need to avoid a jump cut or compress time, you “cut away” from the principal subject. The more common example of a cutaway would be a shot of a reporter listening to an interview guest. These reporter shots are usually shot AFTER the interview. When the interview is edited, you can cover the jump cuts with cutaways of the reporter.
cutdown: a shortened version of a longer item. "The piece on the feed was 4 minutes long, so we did a cutdown for the 11."
DV: digital video. Not necessarily on a DVD…not yet, anyway. Our cameras at school use miniDV digital videotape. Sony Betacams (industry standard) come in DV and non-DV models; at this point most newsrooms are not shooting in DV.
d-cue (digital cue): see countdown
dayside: the day shift. The people working for the daytime/suppertime newscasts.
dead air: silence. Not generally something you want too much of, but… “Sue had to avoid dead air when John missed his spot in the newscast, so she ad libbed her way into gibberish.”
digital: see countdown.
digitize: act of loading field tape (linear) into the (non-linear) editing system, transferring the material from analog to digital format in the process. Some newsrooms shorten the term to didge—or however you would spell it—as in, “Did you get your tape didged yet?”
director: NOTE: IMPORTANT DISTINCTION!
In TV news, the director is usually the studio director—the person who sits in the control room and has the main responsibility for getting the newscast to air (with the help of the switcher, AD s and others).
In drama and most documentary, the director is the principal editorial/content person in the field.
In news, a director’s job is not principally an editorial one. In TV news, the principal editorial person (if not the reporter himself) is the field producer or producer.
dissolve: the video version of audio’s crossfade. One picture dissolves into another.
dolly: a contraption with wheels, which you attach to a tripod to let you move the camera around. See also truck.
double-ender: interview in which the interviewer and guest are in two places, connected by phone. Each phone is connected to an earpiece and a mic.
Cameras in each location roll at once and afterwards the two tapes are cut together. In a true double-ender, the host and guest cannot actually see each other. A satellite or other remote interview, where the host in the studio sees the guest (but guest doesn’t usually see host) is not a called a “true” double-ender.
dropout: When a tape has been used several times (and occasionally when it’s new), it may start shedding the particles that record the information. The irregularities on the tape show on screen as dropouts.
dry run: rehearsal, or practice runs for a particularly complicated production. “We’ll do a few dry runs for the live convention coverage at 0700 on Saturday, before the delegates arrive.” New programs often go through a series of dry runs as well.
dub: a re-recording of another tape. There may be a loss of quality in a dub compared to an original or master tape. With each dub of a dub, the problems intensify, though less so (or not at all) in professional tape formats and since the advent of digital video. NOTE: Avoid dubbing from VHS to any other format.
EDL: Edit Decision List. In non-linear editing, the EDL is the record of every sound, visual and effects decision made during an edit session. The EDL will guide the machines to res up the final product
EFP, EJ and ENG : Electronic field production, electronic journalism, electronic news gathering. These three terms seem obvious, but they came into use during the advent of tape, when some crews still shot film. They are often used interchangeably, usually in re: a news camera crew, unit or edit suite.
EFX: effect/s (as in special effects). Also called FX
executive producer: Senior editorial person on a program or programming unit. Not always a manager per se, s/he nonetheless usually has at least some power over staffing and spending. A news director may have the same, fewer or more responsibilities…depends on the company.
exterior: If you’re asked to “get an exterior,” you take a shot of the outside of where you are, usually of the building in which the action is taking place.
eyeline: The line from a camera lens (the camera’s eye) to the subject’s eyes. Generally speaking, the eyeline should be neutral, i.e., parallel to the ground.
factoid: slang for a graphic with a kernel of information written on it. “After the interview with the snow plough operator, let’s throw up a factoid with how much snow we’ve had this year.”
fax, full fax: Facilities. “Full fax” in a studio means all the crew and equipment are ready to go. “The studio shift starts at two, and once we fire everything up we can be at full fax by two-thirty.”
feed: noun and verb. When tape or images are fed to another source or location by fiberoptic landlines, microwave, satellite and/or internal computer servers such as CTV’s Gateway. All networks have regularly scheduled news feeds for domestic affiliates, and partners in other countries.
field, in the: Anywhere that is outside the station and its immed. environs (a standup in the parking lot is not a field shoot.)
field tape: tape shot in the field. Usually used to denote original source tape, as opposed to the master or edit pack, containing edited items.
file: 1. as in print. “I filed a report for the 6.” You wrote, edited, and got it to air. 2. file footage: Even though we don’t use film “footage” anymore, this is the term for viz from the archives.
flash frame: frame(s) of video between the two halves of an edit, so quick as to slip through to air unnoticed, augh. Rarely happens in non-linear editing, unless you’re having a really bad day.
follow-the-puck: Easy to do badly and maybe the hardest style of shooting to do well. As in a hockey game, the cameraperson follows the action with the camera, rather than shooting for sequences or montage. It is not the same as point of view shooting.
font: see super
GFX : graphics. Usually used in scripts for shorthand directions to an editor or control room.
Gateway (CTV): it’s a…portal to all the items available to the CTV network. Contains news feeds, individual items, graphics, etc.
goodnight – Surprise! it’s a verb. To “goodnight a feed” is to let the source or recipient of a feed know you’re finished with the satellite or fiberoptic line.
If you don’t goodnight a feed, you could be paying for bird time you don’t need, or tying up a recording suite unnecessarily, as someone waits for tape, or a request for tape, that isn’t coming.
graphics: maps, statistical graphs and tables, photographs, supers or any combination thereof. See also GFX
HD , high-def: high-definition television has many more horizontal lines of resolution than the TV we’re all used to. When you see it on a regular TV, it’s letterboxed. Is it a big deal? Will it happen overnight? Industry types compare it to the transition from black and white to colour TV…which took more than a decade. Industry site @ http://www.cdtv.ca/en/index.htm
hard out: 1. if a show’s hard out is at the top of the clock, that means the computer, or someone, will cut it off when the second hand hits twelve (or more likely, a second or two before). 2. If an item has a “hard out”, that means there is no time to waste going to the next video…or you run the risk of going to black.
“health warning” – slang for a cautionary announcement or disclaimer, either at the top of a program, coming back from a commercial break, or in the intro of a news story. It warns viewers of content they may find objectionable or disturbing.
hot :1. if a shot “looks hot” it is over-exposed. Refers to colour temperature. Ask Kevin about that one. 2. If a set is hot, the show being broadcast from it is either on the air, or about to be.
IFB : interruptible foldback. see telex
idiot cards: cue cards…You see them on Letterman, but not on news shows anymore. News uses autocue.
ingest: (CTV) see digitize, capture. The process of loading tape into a computer.
international sound: an unmixed audio track without announcer/reporter voiceover or translation. “We need an international-sound version of that Portuguese soccer story…the nat sound is drowned out by the announcer yelling in Spanish.”
invu: script shorthand for interview.
jump cut: a jarring edit, so that the image seems to “jump”. Forbidden for many years, they are now used frequently in various contexts.
kicker: a light, often funny (or we hope it is) item at the end of the newscast. See also BLT
land line: couple of meanings, best described by what it’s not. Not a satellite feed. Not a cell phone. For feeds, usually a fiberoptic phone or video line. Also used as a verb: “We’ll feed the story to Toronto, insert the graphics and then landline it to Ottawa.”
lead: 1. First sentence of your story. 2. First story in the newscast. You’ll sometimes—usually in print, and rarely anywhere nowadays–see it spelled lede. I’m told it was to avoid confusion in the days of lead type. (?)
leader: see countdown
Leitch – Another company that makes non-linear edit gear. CTV term for AVID suites.
letterbox: the effect of watching visuals shot in a 16:9 aspect ratio on a 4:3 screen.
lineup: the list of all the elements –copy, voice-overs, reports, promos, stings, billboards, commercials—in the news program, from start to finish in order of appearance. A completed lineup includes tape numbers, running times and other information the control room needs to get the show to air properly. It is often the archival record of the show as well.
Most newsrooms now use specialized software to produce their lineups (AVIDstar, i-news, ENPS, etc). Lineup software backtimes the show, adjusts the show script and timing for every new element or change, and builds templates for recurring elements and user preferences. However, it cannot compose an elegant sentence, and you can. Hah.
live hit: see live shot.
live shot: Original meaning is simple: a shot which goes to air live.
1.If your program uses “a live shot of the harbour at the top of the 6”, it means that somewhere it has a camera pointed at the harbour, the live output of which can be put to air at the opening of its 6:00 news.
2. A live shot can also be a live insert into the program, where a reporter does his/her live hit. Some stations call debriefs “live shots” even though they may be pre-recorded look-lives (raise that w/ Swick).
log: 1. see shotlist. 2. Record of events… trouble logs, and espy air logs. CRTC regulations require all broadcast stations to make and keep (very low quality; don’t think you can use them on air) recordings of all programming as it went to air.
lookahead: another example of how newsrooms turn normal words into jargon. A list of stories and ideas which…looks ahead. May be daily, like an outlook, or longer-term: “Move that fireworks convention from last week’s lookahead into the Monday outlook, will you?
look-live: a taped intro or extro to a report that “looks live,” as in a standup ending with “…back to you, Janet.”
master: the master tape is the best copy of an edited item, the one that goes to air. Before non-linear editing, there could be only one master; all others were dubs. Now you can use your EDL to make as many masters as you want.
melt (CBC) : an overview report summarizing a range of developments on a story.
missing (one’s) spot: A major newsroom crime. Failure to have an item ready for its spot in the lineup, throwing everything into (momentary, if you’re lucky) confusion.
Making your spot every time, every day, is closer than cleanliness to newsroom godliness.
montage: A collection of disparate elements (visuals, sound) that create an overall impression.
In editing talk, it’s an alternative to sequences or “follow-the-puck” visuals.
NFT: Not For Today/tonight. Could be a bagger or a WIP which will take more time to complete.
NTSC : the North American broadcast standard for video. PAL and SECAM are used in other parts of the world. Three people, worldwide, remember what the letters stand for.
nat sound: natural sound
1. The ambient sound from video, good-quality nat sound gives the viewer a stronger sense of the location or event. aka wild sound.
2. a natsound version of a story is fed minus the reporter’s voice track. See also international sound. As you’ll find in class, a natsound version lets you use ambient sound in AVOs and cutdowns.
news director: the senior person in a newsroom…sometimes this job is in concert with or senior to an executive producer's. (FYI job hunters: CBC newsrooms don’t use this title.)
news hole: the amount of time available for news in a program. Take away the opening animation, headlines, commercials, sports, weather, promos, stings and credits, and you have the news hole. Same as in print.
May also refer to the blocks dedicated to news (as opposed to the CA hole).
newser: news conference. Occasionally, “presser “.
nightside: the evening or night shift. People working for late-night or very-early-morning newscasts. See also dayside.
noddies : reaction shots of a reporter or interviewer, often gathered after an interview to use as cutaways in editing. Term comes from the habit many reporters have of bobbing their heads as if agreeing with what the interview subject is saying—beware!
Some people argue it’s fairer and more ethical to use jump cuts, so it’s clear to the viewer that the clip has been edited.
noise: the ultimate dead air in television: no signal at all. Noise is the irritating racket and snow that wakes you up on the couch after the station signs off.
non-linear editing: Tape editing used to be a linear process of dubbing source, or field tape to an edit master. Linear editing is gradually disappearing from television. In non-linear editing, the video and audio information on the field tape is loaded (digitized) into bins in an edit suite’s computer drive, where the (human) editor can put them together without going back and forth through the source tapes.
O/C –Usually this means on-camera. but sometimes people use it to mean OFF-camera, so BEWARE! and when in doubt, ask.
one-man band: see videojournalist
out – depends on context:
1. the last picture or words in a piece of tape. Abbrev. of outcue, as in “What’s your out?” A typical out, or outcue on a field report is: “Andy Smith, CTV News, Halifax.”
2. abbrev. of outtakes—the flubs and bloopers. “There were some great outs of that interview—they kept getting each other’s names wrong.”
3. If your show has a hard out at 17:59:45, that means the computer will cut you off then.
outlook: The list of possible stories for the day. The first outlook may be no more than info from clippings and news releases, and possible follows from the days before. At the story meeting, reporters and others pitch stories to add to the outlook. As the day progresses, the outlook may grow and shrink until lineup/s reflect what will actually be on the newscast/s.
PA: production assistant. Job descriptions vary.
POV: point of view, belonging either to the camera or to the reporter.
1. A POV documentary will not always adhere to traditional news criteria for impartiality.
2. In a POV shot, the camera “sees” from a subject’s point of view. V difficult to do well. Requires careful planning, and can raise ethical concerns worth considering, espy in re-enactments: how do you know what the murder victim saw?
pan: pivoting the camera on the tripod, or turning your body (hand-held) to move the lens (but not the whole camera) in a line parallel to the ground.
plant: the station, the office. “The shoot starts at one, so let’s meet at the plant at noon, and we'll go to the site together.”
post-mortem: A review of a production or project. A critique, usually focusing on what worked, what didn’t, lessons learned and practices to be instituted for the next edition.
producer: No single definition in TV news. News producers have both editorial and production responsibilities, usually farther-reaching than those of reporters, who are necessarily focussed on producing their individual stories. They may not get into the field much.
Studio or presentation producers may have no core editorial responsibilities, focusing on the look, pacing, packaging and style of a program.
A field producer may work with a reporter… or as a reporter.
Note: It's easy to get (even more) confused between TV news’s broad definition of “producer” and the feature-film definition. Movie producers are focussed on larger issues (funding, logistics, casting and finances) of film production. See also director.
pronouncer: pronunciation note, usually phonetic, to a reporter or newsreader. If someone asks you to add a pronouncer to your intro on McAfee Virus Scan, you file your intro with a note in the left-hand column, or inside the autocue copy (protocols vary—check) : MAC uh fee
QTV: Brand name for a type of autocue system (see autocue).
RF: radio frequency. An RF mic is cordless. A transmitter on the mic sends the audio signal to a receiver which is usually mounted on the camera in news situations. The receiver may also be plugged into a public-address system, e.g. in a news conference.
re-ask: for editing purposes, an interviewer may do re-asks after a single-camera interview—after the interview is over, she repeats some or all questions to camera, since her back was to the camera during the interview. This allows for smoother editing and gives the effect of two cameras. In a perfect world, there would always be two cameras, but that is often not the case. (I have just ruined the movie Broadcast News for you.)
ETHICS NOTE: V. important that you ask the SAME question/s, the SAME way…and even then re-asks can be problematic.
remote: outside the studio. A live remote can be a weather report from the parking lot, a political convention with 20 cameras or a guy with a satellite phone on a rooftop in Baghdad.
res, res up: In non-linear editing, you will sometimes use low-resolution (low-res) video in your rough cut, to use less space in the computer’s memory. When you re-edit your EDL for a final product, you “res up” to broadcast quality.
rough cut: a first-draft edit. Editorial types screen a rough cut and suggest changes. You rarely get a chance to do rough cuts in daily news.
rundown: 1. a version of the lineup with additional technical information for the studio and control room crews; 2. an updated lineup filed after the newscast, with any last-minute and on-the-fly changes incorporated.
SA: script assistant. Similar to a PA. This term (and the job) is falling out of use in most newsrooms.
SOT : Sound On Tape (see also AVO, VOSOT)
S/U: usually, “sound up”— a script direction for editing, as in “S/U of chanting at 04:45:34”
***WATCH OUT: it is also sometimes used to mean “standup.”
scrum: term from rugby. A news scrum is when a bunch of reporters and crews surround a newsmaker for an impromptu or scheduled question-and-answer session.
Noun: “There’s no newser, but the PM and some of the premiers will do scrums outside the meeting room just in time for the Eastern time zone deadline…so Halifax, you're up the creek” 
Verb: “She wouldn’t do individual interviews, but a bunch of us scrummed her on the way out.”
segue (pron. seg-way): transition from one topic to another. Every reporter has a story about a forced, embarrassing or just plain bizarre segue on live TV… of course, it’s hardly ever theirs.
sequence: Traditional structure for a series of shots. The camera changes position through an action to give a complete view of what’s going on, to compress the time required to do the action, etc. There are good basic examples in the "Editing Decisions" video.
setup pack: A short background item, usually preceding an interview, panel or other longer item. May be a host AVO.
shelf: see bagger.
shotlist: Noun—a list of shots on a tape, with their corresponding timecodes.
Verb—to make a shotlist. See also log.
shoulder graphic: the graphic magically floating over the host’s shoulder in the standard newscast shot. aka cell.
slug: as in print, the one- or two-word name used to refer to a report.
I hear you’re filing a VO for the 6…. your slug is ‘Election Melt’
soundup: noun, from the action of turning up the dial on an audio mixing board, a soundup is usually a few moments of natural sound—to establish the atmosphere of a location, to show the enthusiasm of a crowd, etc. I want you to use a soundup after that edit, to give viewers a chance to adjust to the change of location..
(Caution: some people use S/U for standup—watch for the difference.)
"Soviet newscast" – snarky description of a long stretch where the newsreader just…reads…. without changing the shot or going to tape, graphics, etc.
Her standup was so long, it started to feel like a Soviet newscast.
spear: CBC jargon. To “do a spear” is to collect tape, espy interview clips, for another reporter’s piece. The reference is to the knight’s squire, supplying the gear to do battle. When you do spears, you’re contributing to a greater cause, aw shucks.
standup: reporter speaking to camera, usually in the body of a field report.
(Note: some scripts will use S/U to mean soundup as well as standup—watch for the difference.)
sticks: slang for camera tripod.
stings: production elements in a program, usually promoting an item coming up later. A sting may also be used to smooth out a difficult segue…e.g., from a report on a fatal fire to what’s on downtown this weekend.
stock: Stock shots—library footage, particularly generic pictures, e.g. of a place or activity…people fishing, mowing lawns, etc.
swish pan: a rapid pan of the camera, so fast, “you can hear the ‘swish’”. Generally not a good idea, though it has its uses.
streeters: non-gender-specific version of what used to be called the man-in-the-street interview. “Go out and shoot some streeters on gas prices.” Also known as voxpops (Latin: vox populi, voice of the people).
super: noun and verb. Verb : to superimpose an image (usually type) over another; noun: the superimposition itself.
The supers in a news item are the names of guests and reporters, locations, etc.
Other terms: key, font, chyron (brand of machine)
super tech: does not wear a cape. Supervising technicians are the senior technical people. They have a range of duties which may include coordinating feeds, booking crews for special events, troubleshooting in the studio, etc. and supervising the other technicians on a shoot/set. See also TP
switcher: the person who, and the machine which, switches various production sources—studio cameras, tape playbacks, graphics, etc—as a program goes to air or to tape.
TP: technical producer. See also supertech. Differences between a TP and a supertech may or may not be more than a question of union jurisdiction—depends on the plant.
tag: copy tag, or on-camera tag…often a PS to an item, e.g., “That piece first aired in January.”
talkback: 1. for reporters, the term usually refers to a debrief with the host.
2. In the studio, the intercom system by which the director or other members of the control room crew communicate with the anchor or other people in the studio. I told him on the talkback that the item wasn’t ready, so he skipped to the next intro instead. See also IFB
tally light: the red record light in a camera, usually just above the lens and/or inside the viewfinder.
tease: a promo which doesn’t give away the kernel of the story. “This man has committed no crime, but he’s wanted across Canada. We’ll have his story…later on the show.”
teleprompter: see autocue
telex: the earplug through which a host or field reporter hears other sources of audio: the program, an interviewer (or guest)…but not him/herself (at least, when it works properly…).
Also called an IFB (interruptible foldback), after the system it’s part of.
throw—where one on-air person hands the commentary or hosting to someone else. “Chris in the field will throw to Pat in the studio.” A throw can be scripted or ad libbed.
tilt: literal—to tilt the camera up or down. “I’m going to tilt up to the sky at the end of this shot.”
timecode: electronically generated code marking every frame in video. A gift from the gods for shotlisting.
timeline: in non-linear editing, the timeline is the on-screen map of your report. You click-and-drag clips from the bins, into the timeline. The timeline stretches and contracts when you insert or remove a piece of captured/digitized tape.
tops and tails (CTV) — specific types of live hits, where the reporter does a live (or look-live) on-camera before the start of the cut piece (top) or at the end (tail).
toss – see throw
track, tracking shot: camera moves with the action. A common tracking shot would be to shoot a streetscape from the (open!) window of a moving car. Note: Do not attempt this while driving.
truck: to move the camera and tripod laterally, on wheels (as opposed to panning), or forward (as opposed to zooming). See also dolly.
under: fade under, sound under… these terms refer to lowering the level of video or audio elements as new elements enter the story (or fade up).
VCV, VO , VOSOT : see voice-over, AVO
VJ :see video journalist
vet: dictionary definition is “to examine carefully.” Most newsrooms require all scripts to be vetted by a senior editorial person, for journalistic, legal, technical and creative reasons. Many shows go through several vets before getting to air.
video journalist or VJ: In literal terms, we are all video journalists, but the term is used to describe someone who both shoots and reports.
viz: visuals, as in “What are the viz for the billboard at the end of Block One?”
voice over: two meanings… a short on-air piece (see AVO), or the reporter’s spoken script in a report/pack
voxpop: see streeters
WIP list : Works In Progress. A newsroom’s or reporter’s WIP list is a way of keeping track of story ideas and their status, including “needs research”, “researching”, “shooting”, “writing”, “editing”, “on hold for better weather”.
walkthrough: rehearsal. It’s always good to do a walkthrough of the first minute or so of the show before it goes to air.
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Final note:
Health warning: some terms on this link are not for the faint of heart; others are downright offensive, but rude or not, they’re all used somewhere.
wallpaper: Slang for boring pictures that don’t bear much relation to the script. See also
B-roll, cover.
wild sound : see nat sound
(as found in the internet. the accuracy is not assured.)
Glossary of Journalism Terms
Assignment: A particular job given to reporters by editors. Sometimes reporters suggest their own assignments, but they must get an editor's approval before beginning work.
Dateline: The place-names at the beginning of a story that tell the reader where the story occurred. A dateline includes the name of a city or town, and sometimes the country. Before high-speed transmission of data, it also included the date, which is why it is called a "dateline."
Deadline: A time given to a reporter by which he/she must turn in a story.
Editor: A journalist who works closely with reporters, giving out assignments and deadlines and helping them craft their stories.
Journalist: Someone who works in the news gathering business, such as a photographer, editor or reporter.
Newsroom: An office where journalists work.
Photographer: A journalist who takes photos.
Pulitzer Prize: Pulitzer Prizes are annual awards for achievements in American journalism, letters, drama and music. The prizes have been awarded by Columbia University in New York City since 1917, on the recommendation of a Pulitzer Prize Board. Fourteen prizes are given in journalism. The award is named after Joseph Pulitzer, American newspaper publisher, who endowed the journalism school and the awards.
Reporter: A journalist who gathers information and writes news stories.
Scoop: An advantage gained over competitors by publishing a news item first. Often, a news item itself is a called a scoop when no one else has that news item.
Source: A person who gives information to a reporter or editor.
(source: www.ask.com)
JOURNALISM TERMS AND JARGONS
(source: University of Kings- School of journalism: http://journalism.ukings.ca/journalism_3925.html)
2-shot: most often an interview guest and the back of the reporter’s head. Also used in re: any shot including two people.
“the 6” …or the 11, etc. The newscast airing at the time referred to.
16:9 (sixteen-nine): the “letterbox” ratio of horizontal to vertical on the screen. Many programs are now being shot in 16:9. It’s still uncommon in daily news, but will become the standard as HD advances.
24-hour clock: get familiar with it, if you want to be able to read a show lineup or a feed list. Example: 1 pm is 1300 on a 24-hour clock. NOTE: When working across time zones, remember to check whose 1300 it is!
AC: alternating current. The plug in the wall vs. the battery belt. (aka “shore power”)
AD: associate director—usually similar to production assistants or researchers. AD’s do a range of jobs, including circulating scripts, working in the control room (with the director), or doing logistical jobs such as timing the program or booking feeds.
AVO or VO : announcer voice-over. Announcer reads a script (often but not always live) over pictures. When there’s a clip, it’s…an AVO-clip, or VO-clip.
Other terms include: VCV (voice-clip-voice), VOSOT (VoiceOver/Sound On Tape)
Academy leader: see countdown
ad lib: (semi-) spontaneous, unscripted talking. “The host can ad lib about the convention if we need to fill extra time.”
add – new version of a script, or a new addition to the lineup. “The hostage-taking story is a late add.” See also sub.
air: not much actually goes directly through the air to the Folks At Home anymore, but we still use the word. Also…go to air: program start—“Our 6 o’clock news actually goes to air at 17:59:45.”
aircheck: recording of a program for logging or screening purposes.
airtime: time on TV: “They burned an hour of airtime with that live newser and I still don’t know what the story is.”
Amnets: American networks, as in, “Yippee! We beat the Amnets on that story by a full hour.”
assignment editor: similar to print, one of the principal people on a news desk (hierarchies vary). An assignment editor keeps track of what’s going on in the newsroom’s coverage area, maintains an outlook for the day, the lookahead for tomorrow, and the futures file.
autocue: a system of mirrors and lenses which displays a newsreader’s script as a superimposed moving image on the camera lens, so the reader doesn’t have to look down (much) while reading. Various trademarked names, including the old TelePrompTer.
AVID: Company which makes a range of editing suites for video and film. Most broadcasters run AVID… so it’s often used to describe any non-linear edit suite/process…just as “Scotch tape” is used for all brands. See also Leitch.
axis: imaginary line through a scene. As a general rule, the camera should stay on one side of the axis to prevent (e.g.) two people in separate shots from appearing to look in the same direction while speaking, instead of one facing right, and the other left.
BG background. Could be background information or background of a shot.
BGS: background sound.
BLT : bright, light and trite. Snarky term for a cheery story with no news value.
B-roll : This term is a leftover from film days. Refers to pictures (often generic) used to cover a reporter’s voiceover. This term makes some people (incl. me) twitch: it sounds as if you don’t care what the pics are, as long as there’s cover.
backtime: Noun: If a show is ten minutes long, and you’re three minutes in, you have seven minutes left. Seven minutes is the backtime.
Verb: Figuring out where you are in relation to where you want to get. Some people who have spent years as AD’s, backtiming shows, can still backtime in their heads.
bagger: slang for a piece that will play anytime, usually during a slow season or at the last minute. “I’m doing three baggers—one on kids’ toys, one on holiday recipes, and one on department store Santas—before I take off for Christmas.” Other terms: on the shelf, in the can.
bars: colour bars are used to test video signal, to make sure the colours are true and/or match the bars generated from other sources (cameras, control room, video feeds).
Betacam: Sony’s Betacam is the industry standard for professional video. It is not the same format as the Betamax video which competed with VHS in the 1980’s (and lost)
bin: in non-linear editing..one of the (imaginary) file folders you dump your digitized images and clips before you start to edit.
black: see control track.
bins: metaphorical drawers, holding files of digitized tape. In non-linear editing, sections of field tape are digitized into the AVID and stored in bins. This sounds confusing but it will become clear with your first edit.
bird: slang for satellite. “Book the bird” means to make a satellite booking.
bite: a short sound clip. May be a quote, or some natural sound—chanting, storm noise, etc.
bridge: standup in the middle of an item…bridging from one chapter to another.
billboards: promo or tease inside the body of a show.
block: the “blocks” of a newscast are like the sections of a newspaper. “A” Block or Block 1 would contain the top news stories; “B” Block could be weather, and so on. Blocks are usually framed by commercials.
boards: 1. full-screen graphics, such as a map, or a transcribed quote from a viewer mailbag. The graphics in a weather block may be called the weather boards (CBC).
2. see billboards.
bumpers: see sting. As on cars or boats, a bumper on TV keeps things from crashing up against each other…you can have a bumper going into or out of commercial, for example, espy if there’s a sad story that might run up against a commercial with dancing clowns.
Locally: ATV calls bumpers a tease with vo script, for an upcoming story.
CA : see current affairs
can: in the…, building a…. An item is finished ahead of deadline: it’s in the can. If you’re doing a number of Christmas baggers, you’re building a holiday can.
cans (pl.): headsets.
capture: another term for digitize or ingest. After you’ve captured your tape on the computer, you can start your edit.
cell: sometimes used to describe the graphic that appears above the host’s shoulder during an intro in a newscast.
chocolate bar: some Betacam camera batteries look like thick, heavy chocolate bars.
clip: Some people in the real world refer to a report as a “clip”…but news people hardly ever do, at least hereabouts.
The term comes from the olden days of film, when the editor would literally cut out (clip) a piece of film containing an interview quote, and then physically insert it into the story. Would you get a clip on gas prices from the finance minister when you’re at the legislature this morning?
Also used as a verb: Can you clip the finance minister for me this morning?
close-up (see shot sizes and framing)
control track: (see also black) A track of electronic pulses, laid down on videotape while shooting or before editing, which maintains continuous timecode and enables more complex edits.
Or, as an editor once told me, “It makes the pictures stick better.”
countdown (Academy leader, leader, beeps, d-cue, digital): the "5, 4, 3, 2.." that goes before the start of an taped item.
cover: pictures that “cover black” between the clips in your story. NOTE: If you ask someone to
“shoot some cover,” it helps to tell him/her what the pics will be covering…unless you just want wallpaper. See also B-roll.
crawl: type moving across the screen. Most all-news stations have a headline crawl moving constantly across the bottom of the screen.
crease: once you’ve seen a crease in a tape, right in the middle of your best clip or the only good take of your standup…you’ll never forget what a crease looks like.
crossfade: to fade out one source (usually audio) and fade up another at the same time as a kind of transition. In video it’s called a dissolve.
cross-scripting : writing or talking about one thing while showing another. Talking about a criminal while showing a picture of the victim is bad cross-scripting.
current affairs: open to lively and sometimes cranky debate. Depending on who’s doing the defining, current affairs is: a more thoughtful take on people, events, issues and behind-the-scenes goings-on in the news; an investigative piece which may in fact break news; a looonnng news story; a fancy name for a feature; an excuse to spend a week on one story while everyone else is out there making sausages, etcetc.
cut: the simplest of edits, which cuts from one picture to another. Different from fades, wipes, and dissolves.
cutaway: when you need to avoid a jump cut or compress time, you “cut away” from the principal subject. The more common example of a cutaway would be a shot of a reporter listening to an interview guest. These reporter shots are usually shot AFTER the interview. When the interview is edited, you can cover the jump cuts with cutaways of the reporter.
cutdown: a shortened version of a longer item. "The piece on the feed was 4 minutes long, so we did a cutdown for the 11."
DV: digital video. Not necessarily on a DVD…not yet, anyway. Our cameras at school use miniDV digital videotape. Sony Betacams (industry standard) come in DV and non-DV models; at this point most newsrooms are not shooting in DV.
d-cue (digital cue): see countdown
dayside: the day shift. The people working for the daytime/suppertime newscasts.
dead air: silence. Not generally something you want too much of, but… “Sue had to avoid dead air when John missed his spot in the newscast, so she ad libbed her way into gibberish.”
digital: see countdown.
digitize: act of loading field tape (linear) into the (non-linear) editing system, transferring the material from analog to digital format in the process. Some newsrooms shorten the term to didge—or however you would spell it—as in, “Did you get your tape didged yet?”
director: NOTE: IMPORTANT DISTINCTION!
In TV news, the director is usually the studio director—the person who sits in the control room and has the main responsibility for getting the newscast to air (with the help of the switcher, AD s and others).
In drama and most documentary, the director is the principal editorial/content person in the field.
In news, a director’s job is not principally an editorial one. In TV news, the principal editorial person (if not the reporter himself) is the field producer or producer.
dissolve: the video version of audio’s crossfade. One picture dissolves into another.
dolly: a contraption with wheels, which you attach to a tripod to let you move the camera around. See also truck.
double-ender: interview in which the interviewer and guest are in two places, connected by phone. Each phone is connected to an earpiece and a mic.
Cameras in each location roll at once and afterwards the two tapes are cut together. In a true double-ender, the host and guest cannot actually see each other. A satellite or other remote interview, where the host in the studio sees the guest (but guest doesn’t usually see host) is not a called a “true” double-ender.
dropout: When a tape has been used several times (and occasionally when it’s new), it may start shedding the particles that record the information. The irregularities on the tape show on screen as dropouts.
dry run: rehearsal, or practice runs for a particularly complicated production. “We’ll do a few dry runs for the live convention coverage at 0700 on Saturday, before the delegates arrive.” New programs often go through a series of dry runs as well.
dub: a re-recording of another tape. There may be a loss of quality in a dub compared to an original or master tape. With each dub of a dub, the problems intensify, though less so (or not at all) in professional tape formats and since the advent of digital video. NOTE: Avoid dubbing from VHS to any other format.
EDL: Edit Decision List. In non-linear editing, the EDL is the record of every sound, visual and effects decision made during an edit session. The EDL will guide the machines to res up the final product
EFP, EJ and ENG : Electronic field production, electronic journalism, electronic news gathering. These three terms seem obvious, but they came into use during the advent of tape, when some crews still shot film. They are often used interchangeably, usually in re: a news camera crew, unit or edit suite.
EFX: effect/s (as in special effects). Also called FX
executive producer: Senior editorial person on a program or programming unit. Not always a manager per se, s/he nonetheless usually has at least some power over staffing and spending. A news director may have the same, fewer or more responsibilities…depends on the company.
exterior: If you’re asked to “get an exterior,” you take a shot of the outside of where you are, usually of the building in which the action is taking place.
eyeline: The line from a camera lens (the camera’s eye) to the subject’s eyes. Generally speaking, the eyeline should be neutral, i.e., parallel to the ground.
factoid: slang for a graphic with a kernel of information written on it. “After the interview with the snow plough operator, let’s throw up a factoid with how much snow we’ve had this year.”
fax, full fax: Facilities. “Full fax” in a studio means all the crew and equipment are ready to go. “The studio shift starts at two, and once we fire everything up we can be at full fax by two-thirty.”
feed: noun and verb. When tape or images are fed to another source or location by fiberoptic landlines, microwave, satellite and/or internal computer servers such as CTV’s Gateway. All networks have regularly scheduled news feeds for domestic affiliates, and partners in other countries.
field, in the: Anywhere that is outside the station and its immed. environs (a standup in the parking lot is not a field shoot.)
field tape: tape shot in the field. Usually used to denote original source tape, as opposed to the master or edit pack, containing edited items.
file: 1. as in print. “I filed a report for the 6.” You wrote, edited, and got it to air. 2. file footage: Even though we don’t use film “footage” anymore, this is the term for viz from the archives.
flash frame: frame(s) of video between the two halves of an edit, so quick as to slip through to air unnoticed, augh. Rarely happens in non-linear editing, unless you’re having a really bad day.
follow-the-puck: Easy to do badly and maybe the hardest style of shooting to do well. As in a hockey game, the cameraperson follows the action with the camera, rather than shooting for sequences or montage. It is not the same as point of view shooting.
font: see super
GFX : graphics. Usually used in scripts for shorthand directions to an editor or control room.
Gateway (CTV): it’s a…portal to all the items available to the CTV network. Contains news feeds, individual items, graphics, etc.
goodnight – Surprise! it’s a verb. To “goodnight a feed” is to let the source or recipient of a feed know you’re finished with the satellite or fiberoptic line.
If you don’t goodnight a feed, you could be paying for bird time you don’t need, or tying up a recording suite unnecessarily, as someone waits for tape, or a request for tape, that isn’t coming.
graphics: maps, statistical graphs and tables, photographs, supers or any combination thereof. See also GFX
HD , high-def: high-definition television has many more horizontal lines of resolution than the TV we’re all used to. When you see it on a regular TV, it’s letterboxed. Is it a big deal? Will it happen overnight? Industry types compare it to the transition from black and white to colour TV…which took more than a decade. Industry site @ http://www.cdtv.ca/en/index.htm
hard out: 1. if a show’s hard out is at the top of the clock, that means the computer, or someone, will cut it off when the second hand hits twelve (or more likely, a second or two before). 2. If an item has a “hard out”, that means there is no time to waste going to the next video…or you run the risk of going to black.
“health warning” – slang for a cautionary announcement or disclaimer, either at the top of a program, coming back from a commercial break, or in the intro of a news story. It warns viewers of content they may find objectionable or disturbing.
hot :1. if a shot “looks hot” it is over-exposed. Refers to colour temperature. Ask Kevin about that one. 2. If a set is hot, the show being broadcast from it is either on the air, or about to be.
IFB : interruptible foldback. see telex
idiot cards: cue cards…You see them on Letterman, but not on news shows anymore. News uses autocue.
ingest: (CTV) see digitize, capture. The process of loading tape into a computer.
international sound: an unmixed audio track without announcer/reporter voiceover or translation. “We need an international-sound version of that Portuguese soccer story…the nat sound is drowned out by the announcer yelling in Spanish.”
invu: script shorthand for interview.
jump cut: a jarring edit, so that the image seems to “jump”. Forbidden for many years, they are now used frequently in various contexts.
kicker: a light, often funny (or we hope it is) item at the end of the newscast. See also BLT
land line: couple of meanings, best described by what it’s not. Not a satellite feed. Not a cell phone. For feeds, usually a fiberoptic phone or video line. Also used as a verb: “We’ll feed the story to Toronto, insert the graphics and then landline it to Ottawa.”
lead: 1. First sentence of your story. 2. First story in the newscast. You’ll sometimes—usually in print, and rarely anywhere nowadays–see it spelled lede. I’m told it was to avoid confusion in the days of lead type. (?)
leader: see countdown
Leitch – Another company that makes non-linear edit gear. CTV term for AVID suites.
letterbox: the effect of watching visuals shot in a 16:9 aspect ratio on a 4:3 screen.
lineup: the list of all the elements –copy, voice-overs, reports, promos, stings, billboards, commercials—in the news program, from start to finish in order of appearance. A completed lineup includes tape numbers, running times and other information the control room needs to get the show to air properly. It is often the archival record of the show as well.
Most newsrooms now use specialized software to produce their lineups (AVIDstar, i-news, ENPS, etc). Lineup software backtimes the show, adjusts the show script and timing for every new element or change, and builds templates for recurring elements and user preferences. However, it cannot compose an elegant sentence, and you can. Hah.
live hit: see live shot.
live shot: Original meaning is simple: a shot which goes to air live.
1.If your program uses “a live shot of the harbour at the top of the 6”, it means that somewhere it has a camera pointed at the harbour, the live output of which can be put to air at the opening of its 6:00 news.
2. A live shot can also be a live insert into the program, where a reporter does his/her live hit. Some stations call debriefs “live shots” even though they may be pre-recorded look-lives (raise that w/ Swick).
log: 1. see shotlist. 2. Record of events… trouble logs, and espy air logs. CRTC regulations require all broadcast stations to make and keep (very low quality; don’t think you can use them on air) recordings of all programming as it went to air.
lookahead: another example of how newsrooms turn normal words into jargon. A list of stories and ideas which…looks ahead. May be daily, like an outlook, or longer-term: “Move that fireworks convention from last week’s lookahead into the Monday outlook, will you?
look-live: a taped intro or extro to a report that “looks live,” as in a standup ending with “…back to you, Janet.”
master: the master tape is the best copy of an edited item, the one that goes to air. Before non-linear editing, there could be only one master; all others were dubs. Now you can use your EDL to make as many masters as you want.
melt (CBC) : an overview report summarizing a range of developments on a story.
missing (one’s) spot: A major newsroom crime. Failure to have an item ready for its spot in the lineup, throwing everything into (momentary, if you’re lucky) confusion.
Making your spot every time, every day, is closer than cleanliness to newsroom godliness.
montage: A collection of disparate elements (visuals, sound) that create an overall impression.
In editing talk, it’s an alternative to sequences or “follow-the-puck” visuals.
NFT: Not For Today/tonight. Could be a bagger or a WIP which will take more time to complete.
NTSC : the North American broadcast standard for video. PAL and SECAM are used in other parts of the world. Three people, worldwide, remember what the letters stand for.
nat sound: natural sound
1. The ambient sound from video, good-quality nat sound gives the viewer a stronger sense of the location or event. aka wild sound.
2. a natsound version of a story is fed minus the reporter’s voice track. See also international sound. As you’ll find in class, a natsound version lets you use ambient sound in AVOs and cutdowns.
news director: the senior person in a newsroom…sometimes this job is in concert with or senior to an executive producer's. (FYI job hunters: CBC newsrooms don’t use this title.)
news hole: the amount of time available for news in a program. Take away the opening animation, headlines, commercials, sports, weather, promos, stings and credits, and you have the news hole. Same as in print.
May also refer to the blocks dedicated to news (as opposed to the CA hole).
newser: news conference. Occasionally, “presser “.
nightside: the evening or night shift. People working for late-night or very-early-morning newscasts. See also dayside.
noddies : reaction shots of a reporter or interviewer, often gathered after an interview to use as cutaways in editing. Term comes from the habit many reporters have of bobbing their heads as if agreeing with what the interview subject is saying—beware!
Some people argue it’s fairer and more ethical to use jump cuts, so it’s clear to the viewer that the clip has been edited.
noise: the ultimate dead air in television: no signal at all. Noise is the irritating racket and snow that wakes you up on the couch after the station signs off.
non-linear editing: Tape editing used to be a linear process of dubbing source, or field tape to an edit master. Linear editing is gradually disappearing from television. In non-linear editing, the video and audio information on the field tape is loaded (digitized) into bins in an edit suite’s computer drive, where the (human) editor can put them together without going back and forth through the source tapes.
O/C –Usually this means on-camera. but sometimes people use it to mean OFF-camera, so BEWARE! and when in doubt, ask.
one-man band: see videojournalist
out – depends on context:
1. the last picture or words in a piece of tape. Abbrev. of outcue, as in “What’s your out?” A typical out, or outcue on a field report is: “Andy Smith, CTV News, Halifax.”
2. abbrev. of outtakes—the flubs and bloopers. “There were some great outs of that interview—they kept getting each other’s names wrong.”
3. If your show has a hard out at 17:59:45, that means the computer will cut you off then.
outlook: The list of possible stories for the day. The first outlook may be no more than info from clippings and news releases, and possible follows from the days before. At the story meeting, reporters and others pitch stories to add to the outlook. As the day progresses, the outlook may grow and shrink until lineup/s reflect what will actually be on the newscast/s.
PA: production assistant. Job descriptions vary.
POV: point of view, belonging either to the camera or to the reporter.
1. A POV documentary will not always adhere to traditional news criteria for impartiality.
2. In a POV shot, the camera “sees” from a subject’s point of view. V difficult to do well. Requires careful planning, and can raise ethical concerns worth considering, espy in re-enactments: how do you know what the murder victim saw?
pan: pivoting the camera on the tripod, or turning your body (hand-held) to move the lens (but not the whole camera) in a line parallel to the ground.
plant: the station, the office. “The shoot starts at one, so let’s meet at the plant at noon, and we'll go to the site together.”
post-mortem: A review of a production or project. A critique, usually focusing on what worked, what didn’t, lessons learned and practices to be instituted for the next edition.
producer: No single definition in TV news. News producers have both editorial and production responsibilities, usually farther-reaching than those of reporters, who are necessarily focussed on producing their individual stories. They may not get into the field much.
Studio or presentation producers may have no core editorial responsibilities, focusing on the look, pacing, packaging and style of a program.
A field producer may work with a reporter… or as a reporter.
Note: It's easy to get (even more) confused between TV news’s broad definition of “producer” and the feature-film definition. Movie producers are focussed on larger issues (funding, logistics, casting and finances) of film production. See also director.
pronouncer: pronunciation note, usually phonetic, to a reporter or newsreader. If someone asks you to add a pronouncer to your intro on McAfee Virus Scan, you file your intro with a note in the left-hand column, or inside the autocue copy (protocols vary—check) : MAC uh fee
QTV: Brand name for a type of autocue system (see autocue).
RF: radio frequency. An RF mic is cordless. A transmitter on the mic sends the audio signal to a receiver which is usually mounted on the camera in news situations. The receiver may also be plugged into a public-address system, e.g. in a news conference.
re-ask: for editing purposes, an interviewer may do re-asks after a single-camera interview—after the interview is over, she repeats some or all questions to camera, since her back was to the camera during the interview. This allows for smoother editing and gives the effect of two cameras. In a perfect world, there would always be two cameras, but that is often not the case. (I have just ruined the movie Broadcast News for you.)
ETHICS NOTE: V. important that you ask the SAME question/s, the SAME way…and even then re-asks can be problematic.
remote: outside the studio. A live remote can be a weather report from the parking lot, a political convention with 20 cameras or a guy with a satellite phone on a rooftop in Baghdad.
res, res up: In non-linear editing, you will sometimes use low-resolution (low-res) video in your rough cut, to use less space in the computer’s memory. When you re-edit your EDL for a final product, you “res up” to broadcast quality.
rough cut: a first-draft edit. Editorial types screen a rough cut and suggest changes. You rarely get a chance to do rough cuts in daily news.
rundown: 1. a version of the lineup with additional technical information for the studio and control room crews; 2. an updated lineup filed after the newscast, with any last-minute and on-the-fly changes incorporated.
SA: script assistant. Similar to a PA. This term (and the job) is falling out of use in most newsrooms.
SOT : Sound On Tape (see also AVO, VOSOT)
S/U: usually, “sound up”— a script direction for editing, as in “S/U of chanting at 04:45:34”
***WATCH OUT: it is also sometimes used to mean “standup.”
scrum: term from rugby. A news scrum is when a bunch of reporters and crews surround a newsmaker for an impromptu or scheduled question-and-answer session.
Noun: “There’s no newser, but the PM and some of the premiers will do scrums outside the meeting room just in time for the Eastern time zone deadline…so Halifax, you're up the creek”
Verb: “She wouldn’t do individual interviews, but a bunch of us scrummed her on the way out.”
segue (pron. seg-way): transition from one topic to another. Every reporter has a story about a forced, embarrassing or just plain bizarre segue on live TV… of course, it’s hardly ever theirs.
sequence: Traditional structure for a series of shots. The camera changes position through an action to give a complete view of what’s going on, to compress the time required to do the action, etc. There are good basic examples in the "Editing Decisions" video.
setup pack: A short background item, usually preceding an interview, panel or other longer item. May be a host AVO.
shelf: see bagger.
shotlist: Noun—a list of shots on a tape, with their corresponding timecodes.
Verb—to make a shotlist. See also log.
shoulder graphic: the graphic magically floating over the host’s shoulder in the standard newscast shot. aka cell.
slug: as in print, the one- or two-word name used to refer to a report.
I hear you’re filing a VO for the 6…. your slug is ‘Election Melt’
soundup: noun, from the action of turning up the dial on an audio mixing board, a soundup is usually a few moments of natural sound—to establish the atmosphere of a location, to show the enthusiasm of a crowd, etc. I want you to use a soundup after that edit, to give viewers a chance to adjust to the change of location..
(Caution: some people use S/U for standup—watch for the difference.)
"Soviet newscast" – snarky description of a long stretch where the newsreader just…reads…. without changing the shot or going to tape, graphics, etc.
Her standup was so long, it started to feel like a Soviet newscast.
spear: CBC jargon. To “do a spear” is to collect tape, espy interview clips, for another reporter’s piece. The reference is to the knight’s squire, supplying the gear to do battle. When you do spears, you’re contributing to a greater cause, aw shucks.
standup: reporter speaking to camera, usually in the body of a field report.
(Note: some scripts will use S/U to mean soundup as well as standup—watch for the difference.)
sticks: slang for camera tripod.
stings: production elements in a program, usually promoting an item coming up later. A sting may also be used to smooth out a difficult segue…e.g., from a report on a fatal fire to what’s on downtown this weekend.
stock: Stock shots—library footage, particularly generic pictures, e.g. of a place or activity…people fishing, mowing lawns, etc.
swish pan: a rapid pan of the camera, so fast, “you can hear the ‘swish’”. Generally not a good idea, though it has its uses.
streeters: non-gender-specific version of what used to be called the man-in-the-street interview. “Go out and shoot some streeters on gas prices.” Also known as voxpops (Latin: vox populi, voice of the people).
super: noun and verb. Verb : to superimpose an image (usually type) over another; noun: the superimposition itself.
The supers in a news item are the names of guests and reporters, locations, etc.
Other terms: key, font, chyron (brand of machine)
super tech: does not wear a cape. Supervising technicians are the senior technical people. They have a range of duties which may include coordinating feeds, booking crews for special events, troubleshooting in the studio, etc. and supervising the other technicians on a shoot/set. See also TP
switcher: the person who, and the machine which, switches various production sources—studio cameras, tape playbacks, graphics, etc—as a program goes to air or to tape.
TP: technical producer. See also supertech. Differences between a TP and a supertech may or may not be more than a question of union jurisdiction—depends on the plant.
tag: copy tag, or on-camera tag…often a PS to an item, e.g., “That piece first aired in January.”
talkback: 1. for reporters, the term usually refers to a debrief with the host.
2. In the studio, the intercom system by which the director or other members of the control room crew communicate with the anchor or other people in the studio. I told him on the talkback that the item wasn’t ready, so he skipped to the next intro instead. See also IFB
tally light: the red record light in a camera, usually just above the lens and/or inside the viewfinder.
tease: a promo which doesn’t give away the kernel of the story. “This man has committed no crime, but he’s wanted across Canada. We’ll have his story…later on the show.”
teleprompter: see autocue
telex: the earplug through which a host or field reporter hears other sources of audio: the program, an interviewer (or guest)…but not him/herself (at least, when it works properly…).
Also called an IFB (interruptible foldback), after the system it’s part of.
throw—where one on-air person hands the commentary or hosting to someone else. “Chris in the field will throw to Pat in the studio.” A throw can be scripted or ad libbed.
tilt: literal—to tilt the camera up or down. “I’m going to tilt up to the sky at the end of this shot.”
timecode: electronically generated code marking every frame in video. A gift from the gods for shotlisting.
timeline: in non-linear editing, the timeline is the on-screen map of your report. You click-and-drag clips from the bins, into the timeline. The timeline stretches and contracts when you insert or remove a piece of captured/digitized tape.
tops and tails (CTV) — specific types of live hits, where the reporter does a live (or look-live) on-camera before the start of the cut piece (top) or at the end (tail).
toss – see throw
track, tracking shot: camera moves with the action. A common tracking shot would be to shoot a streetscape from the (open!) window of a moving car. Note: Do not attempt this while driving.
truck: to move the camera and tripod laterally, on wheels (as opposed to panning), or forward (as opposed to zooming). See also dolly.
under: fade under, sound under… these terms refer to lowering the level of video or audio elements as new elements enter the story (or fade up).
VCV, VO , VOSOT : see voice-over, AVO
VJ :see video journalist
vet: dictionary definition is “to examine carefully.” Most newsrooms require all scripts to be vetted by a senior editorial person, for journalistic, legal, technical and creative reasons. Many shows go through several vets before getting to air.
video journalist or VJ: In literal terms, we are all video journalists, but the term is used to describe someone who both shoots and reports.
viz: visuals, as in “What are the viz for the billboard at the end of Block One?”
voice over: two meanings… a short on-air piece (see AVO), or the reporter’s spoken script in a report/pack
voxpop: see streeters
WIP list : Works In Progress. A newsroom’s or reporter’s WIP list is a way of keeping track of story ideas and their status, including “needs research”, “researching”, “shooting”, “writing”, “editing”, “on hold for better weather”.
walkthrough: rehearsal. It’s always good to do a walkthrough of the first minute or so of the show before it goes to air.
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Final note:
Health warning: some terms on this link are not for the faint of heart; others are downright offensive, but rude or not, they’re all used somewhere.
wallpaper: Slang for boring pictures that don’t bear much relation to the script. See also
B-roll, cover.
wild sound : see nat sound
(as found in the internet. the accuracy is not assured.)
Glossary of Journalism Terms
Assignment: A particular job given to reporters by editors. Sometimes reporters suggest their own assignments, but they must get an editor's approval before beginning work.
Dateline: The place-names at the beginning of a story that tell the reader where the story occurred. A dateline includes the name of a city or town, and sometimes the country. Before high-speed transmission of data, it also included the date, which is why it is called a "dateline."
Deadline: A time given to a reporter by which he/she must turn in a story.
Editor: A journalist who works closely with reporters, giving out assignments and deadlines and helping them craft their stories.
Journalist: Someone who works in the news gathering business, such as a photographer, editor or reporter.
Newsroom: An office where journalists work.
Photographer: A journalist who takes photos.
Pulitzer Prize: Pulitzer Prizes are annual awards for achievements in American journalism, letters, drama and music. The prizes have been awarded by Columbia University in New York City since 1917, on the recommendation of a Pulitzer Prize Board. Fourteen prizes are given in journalism. The award is named after Joseph Pulitzer, American newspaper publisher, who endowed the journalism school and the awards.
Reporter: A journalist who gathers information and writes news stories.
Scoop: An advantage gained over competitors by publishing a news item first. Often, a news item itself is a called a scoop when no one else has that news item.
Source: A person who gives information to a reporter or editor.
(source: www.ask.com)
BER NA!..malapit na BERtday ko
(reposted from friendster) Its not that its going to be next month, but hello!!! its only three months away!..so, are you ready with your gifts? ive always been excited with my birthday, and everytime BER months enter i always know that my special day is getting near also. Though my birthdays were no special day with all the celebrations and stuffs it has always been special to me.(Yeah, even if most people always forgets that day) And probably that's the reason why im here writing about it.I'm so tired of being left out on my special day. Im the only one considering that day special, people around me dont even remember it. Imagine my aunts think i was born January 13, my father thought my birthday is january 7, and my cousins thought its January 19.Never mind the fact that some of my friends thought i was born december, (or judging by my attitude, as if that could tell your birthmonth, they say i was born february)Whew!Let's make it clear ok?.. I was born January 11, 1989.Not january 7, not 13,not 19, never december and surely not february! And when i say 1989 it means.. chanah! Im turning 18!Ill be legally adult in a few months time. I could finally go on my own.Decide on my own.And probably, just probably,I could finally be free!i could work!I could do things that minors cant.Huh! That's why i dont want you people to forget that its my special day.I'll be 18 only once so please greet me on the exact date. I dont actually need gifts…I dont need fancy things, i just want you to remember me.I just want to feel that i matter to you.That you actually care. But if you really want to give me a gift, i wont refuse it.(hehehe) You can give me books (no love stories please, and take note books not book!), anything in army fatigue (hey i always liked that snipers band{or bond?}the camouflage one that looks like a net that the soldiers are using as bandanna (yeah i guess its really band and not bond), or maybe you can simply treat me somewhere like maybe allow me to spend the day in an army camp and see what the soldiers are doing there, or maybe teach me how to fire a pistol, or better yet, why not simply send me a copy of Corps Mag?(pwede yung 2005 and recent issue?), if your really richer than the rest then i think you could just give me a camera, or a lap top, maybe a car, why not a house and lot?, or just buy me a helicopter (like the one that the airforce owns but i want a brand new copter, it needed not be as ancient as theirs)im not a demanding type of person really so i guess, this would be anough.Im not asking too much, am i? So peeps..when year changes and the calendar says it JANUARY 11 dont forget me ok?… Gracias!!!
Dumb Criminals???
Sunday, November 19, 2006In Redondo Beach, Calif., a police officer arrested a driver after a short chase and charged him with drunk driving. Officer Joseph Fonteno's suspicions were aroused when he saw the white Mazda MX-7 rolling down Pacific Coast Highway with half of a traffic-light pole, including the lights, lying across its hood. The driver had hit the pole on a median strip and simply kept driving. According to Fonteno, when the driver was asked about the pole, he said, "It came with the car when I bought it."
The record for the world’s worst drivers is a toss-up between two candidates: First, a 75-year-old man who received 10 traffic tickets, drove on the wrong side of the road four times, committed four hit-and-run offenses, an caused six accidents, all within 20 minutes on October 15, 1966. Second, a 62-year-old woman who failed her driving test 40 times before passing it in August, 1970 (by that time, she had spent over $700 in lessons, and could no longer afford to buy a car).
Richard Milhouse Nixon was the first US President whose name contains all the letters from the word "0." William Jefferson Clinton is the 2nd.
A Hawaiian stamp of 1851 with a face value of 2 cents was the sole reason Gaston Leroux, a Parisian philatelist, murdered its owner, Hector Giroux.
Lawsuits filed by California inmates cost the taxpayers more than $25 million in 1994.
Archduke Karl Ludwig (1833-1896), brother of the Austrian emperor, was a man of such piety that on a trip to the Holy Land, he insisted on drinking from the River Jordan, despite warnings that it would make him fatally ill. He died within a few weeks.
Peter Karpin, a German espionage agent in World War I, was seized by French Intelligence agents in 1914 as soon as he entered the country. Keeping his capture a secret, the French sent faked reports from Karpin to Germany and intercepted the agent's wages and expense money until Karpin escaped in 1917. With those funds the French purchased an automobile, which, in 1919, in occupied Rurh, accidentally ran down and killed a man, who proved to be Peter Karpin.
When police arrived in Appleton, Wisconsin to remove a woman's children because of a complaint that she had given her 11-year-old daughter a "swirlie" (Holding her head in a flushing toilet). The woman reportedly said, "I haven't had a vacation in 13 years, go ahead and take them!"
A reward of $1,000 was offered for information leading to the capture and conviction of a man robbing taxi drivers. The man turned himself in and demanded the reward as a result. He received a 20 year sentence for aggravated robbery instead.
The Belgium news agency Belga reported in November that a man suspected of robbing a jewelry store in Liege said he couldn't have done it because he was busy breaking into a school at the same time. Police then arrested him for breaking into the school.
A couple robbing a store caught on camera could not be identified until the police reviewed the security tape. The woman filled out an entry form for a free trip prior to robbing the store.
A lawyer defending a man accused of burglary tried this creative defense: "My client merely inserted his arm into the window and removed a few trifling articles. His arm is not himself, and I fail to see how you can punish the whole individual for an offense committed by his limb." "Well put," the judge replied. "Using your logic, I sentence the defendant's arm to one year's imprisonment. He can accompany it or not, as he chooses." The defendant smiled. With his lawyer's assistance he detached his artificial limb, laid it on the bench, and walked out.
In 1970, Russel T. Tansie, an Arizona lawyer filed a $100,000 damage lawsuit against God. The suit was filed on behalf of Mr. Tansie's secretary, Betty Penrose, who accused God of negligence in His power over the weather when He allowed a lightning bolt to strike her home. Ms. Penrose won the case when the defendant failed to appear in court. Whether or not she collected has not been recorded.
A man went in to rob a bank. He demanded the clerk to give him all the money. They told him to go sit out in his car and they would bring him the bags of money. He agreed and went out to his car. In the meantime, the people in the bank called the police. When they got there the man was still sitting in his car waiting for the money and they arrested him.
In South Carolina, an inmate who was paralyzed behind bars says in a lawsuit that Spartanburg County jail guards should have stopped him from doing back flips off a desk in his cell. Torrence Johnson, who is suing for unspecified damages, said recently that he fell and crushed a vertebra while being held in maximum-security in 1998.
R.C. Gaitlan, 21, walked up to two patrol officers who were showing their squad car computer felon-location equipment to children in a Detroit neighborhood. When he asked how the system worked, the officer asked him for identification. Gaitlan gave them his drivers license, they entered it into the computer, and moments later they arrested Gaitlan because information on the screen showed Gaitlan was wanted for a two-year-old armed robbery in St. Louis, Missouri.
Dennis Newton was on trial for the armed robbery of a convenience store in district court when he fired his lawyer. Assistant district attorney Larry Jones said Newton, 47, was doing a fair job of defending himself until the store manager testified that Newton was the robber. Newton jumped up, accused the woman of lying and then said, "I should have blown your head off." The defendant paused, then quickly added, "If I'd been the one that was there." The jury took 20 minutes to convict Newton and recommended a 30-year sentence.
A Texan convicted of robbery worked out a deal to pay $9600 in damages rather than serve a two-year prison sentence. For payment, he gave the court a forged check. He got his prison term back, plus eight more years.
A man was arrested and charged with the robbery—of vending machines. The man posted bail, entirely in quarters.
A teenager in Belmont, New Hampshire robbed the local convenience store. Getting away with a pocket full of change, the boy walked home. He did not realize, however, that he had holes in both of his pockets. A trail of quarters and dimes led police directly to his house.
A judge in Louisville decided a jury went "a little bit too far" in recommending a sentence of 5,005 years for a man who was convicted of five robberies and a kidnapping. The judge reduced the sentence to 1,001 years.
Eugene-Francois Midocq, a French thief and outlaw, evaded the police for years, turned police spy, joined the force as a detective, and ultimately used his knowledge of crime to establish a new crime-fighting organization, the Surete.
Tyson Mitchell of Iowa City, Iowa walked into the police station, for some reason that nobody understands, and asked the dispatcher if he was wanted for any crimes. He was and was also arrested, on the spot. But wait! There's more! The police found several bags of cocaine in his pocket.
Organized crime is estimated to account for 10% of the United States' national income.
In a stroke of irony, the maximum security prison in St. Albans, Vermont, was responsible in 1996 for sending out public relations brochures enticing tourists to visit Vermont.
A guy wearing pantyhose on his face tried to rob a store in a mall. When security came, he quickly grabbed a shopping bag and pretended to be shopping, forgetting that he was still wearing the pantyhose. He was captured and his loot was returned to the store.
A man robbed a convenience store and ran out with a bag full of cash. He got down the street and realized he had left his car keys on the counter. When he returned to the store, he was promptly arrested.
Eleven days before the statute of limitations was to expire on the Brink's robbery in Boston, Massachusetts, that netted nearly $3 million in January 1950, one of the robbers confessed and betrayed his fellow robbers.
Spies must always know how to go underground—it's in the nature of their job. But during World War I, Heinrich Albert, a German operative in the United States, failed miserably at this task.
The guy was carrying in his briefcase plans to sabotage American factories. So what does he do? He takes the New York City subway and manages to leave his briefcase on the train! American agents following him recovered the documents.
Airport security personnel find about six weapons a day searching passengers.
Facts or fiction?
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Writing an Editorial
Another Tutorial by:
Alan Weintraut
Annandale High School
Annandale, VA 22312
Atraut@aol.com
CHARACTERISTICS OF EDITORIAL WRITING
An editorial is an article that presents the newspaper's opinion on an issue. It reflects the majority vote of the editorial board, the governing body of the newspaper made up of editors and business managers. It is usually unsigned. Much in the same manner of a lawyer, editorial writers build on an argument and try to persuade readers to think the same way they do. Editorials are meant to influence public opinion, promote critical thinking, and sometimes cause people to take action on an issue. In essence, an editorial is an opinionated news story.
Editorials have:
1. Introduction, body and conclusion like other news stories
2. An objective explanation of the issue, especially complex issues
3. A timely news angle
4. Opinions from the opposing viewpoint that refute directly the same issues the writer addresses
5. The opinions of the writer delivered in a professional manner. Good editorials engage issues, not personalities and refrain from name-calling or other petty tactics of persuasion.
6. Alternative solutions to the problem or issue being criticized. Anyone can gripe about a problem, but a good editorial should take a pro-active approach to making the situation better by using constructive criticism and giving solutions.
7. A solid and concise conclusion that powerfully summarizes the writer's opinion. Give it some punch.
Four Types of Editorials Will:
1. Explain or interpret: Editors often use these editorials to explain the way the newspaper covered a sensitive or controversial subject. School newspapers may explain new school rules or a particular student-body effort like a food drive.
2. Criticize: These editorials constructively criticize actions, decisions or situations while providing solutions to the problem identified. Immediate purpose is to get readers to see the problem, not the solution.
3. Persuade: Editorials of persuasion aim to immediately see the solution, not the problem. From the first paragraph, readers will be encouraged to take a specific, positive action. Political endorsements are good examples of editorials of persuasion.
4. Praise: These editorials commend people and organizations for something done well. They are not as common as the other three.
Writing an Editorial
1. Pick a significant topic that has a current news angle and would interest readers.
2. Collect information and facts; include objective reporting; do research
3. State your opinion briefly in the fashion of a thesis statement
4. Explain the issue objectively as a reporter would and tell why this situation is important
5. Give opposing viewpoint first with its quotations and facts
6. Refute (reject) the other side and develop your case using facts, details, figures, quotations. Pick apart the other side's logic.
7. Concede a point of the opposition — they must have some good points you can acknowledge that would make you look rational.
8. Repeat key phrases to reinforce an idea into the reader's minds.
9. Give a realistic solution(s) to the problem that goes beyond common knowledge. Encourage critical thinking and pro-active reaction.
10. Wrap it up in a concluding punch that restates your opening remark (thesis statement).
11. Keep it to 500 words; make every work count; never use "I"
A Sample Structure
I. Lead with an Objective Explanation of the Issue/Controversy.
Include the five W's and the H. (Members of Congress, in effort to reduce the budget, are looking to cut funding from public television. Hearings were held …)
- Pull in facts and quotations from the sources which are relevant.
- Additional research may be necessary.
II. Present Your Opposition First.
As the writer you disagree with these viewpoints. Identify the people (specifically who oppose you. (Republicans feel that these cuts are necessary; other cable stations can pick them; only the rich watch public television.)
- Use facts and quotations to state objectively their opinions.
- Give a strong position of the opposition. You gain nothing in refuting a weak position.
III. Directly Refute The Opposition's Beliefs.
You can begin your article with transition. (Republicans believe public televison is a "sandbox for the rich." However, statistics show most people who watch public television make less than $40,000 per year.)
- Pull in other facts and quotations from people who support your position.
- Concede a valid point of the opposition which will make you appear rational, one who has considered all the options (fiscal times are tough, and we can cut some of the funding for the arts; however, …).
IV. Give Other, Original Reasons/Analogies
In defense of your position, give reasons from strong to strongest order. (Taking money away from public television is robbing children of their education …)
- Use a literary or cultural allusion that lends to your credibility and perceived intelligence (We should render unto Caesar that which belongs to him …)
V. Conclude With Some Punch.
Give solutions to the problem or challenge the reader to be informed. (Congress should look to where real wastes exist — perhaps in defense and entitlements — to find ways to save money. Digging into public television's pocket hurts us all.)
- A quotation can be effective, especially if from a respected source
- A rhetorical question can be an effective concluder as well (If the government doesn't defend the interests of children, who will?)
A Dozen Online Writing Tips
By Jonathan Dube
Publisher, CyberJournalist.net
(Also published on Poynter.org and
in the book "Shop Talk and War Stories")
1. KNOW YOUR AUDIENCE
Write and edit with online readers? needs and habits in mind. Web usability studies show that readers tend to skim over sites rather than read them intently. They also tend to be more proactive than print readers or TV viewers, hunting for information rather than passively taking in what you present to them.
Think about your target audience. Because your readers are getting their news online, chances are they are more interested in Internet-related stories than TV viewers or newspaper readers, so it may make sense to put greater emphasis on such stories. Also, your site potentially has a global reach, so consider whether you want to make it understandable to a local, national or international audience, and write and edit with that in mind.
2. THINK FIRST ? AND THINK DIFFERENT
Before you start reporting and writing, ask yourself: What is the essence of the story I am trying to tell? Then think about what the best way is to convey that story, whether through audio, video, clickable graphics, text, links, etc. ? or some combination. Collaborate with audio, video and interactive producers. Develop a plan and let that guide you throughout the news gathering and production process, rather than just reporting a story and then adding various elements later as an afterthought.
Look for stories that lend themselves to the Web ? stories that you can tell or differently from or better than in any other medium.
3. TAILOR YOUR NEWS GATHERING
Just as print and TV reporters interview differently because they are looking for different things, so must online journalists tailor their interviewing and information gathering specifically to their needs.
Print reporters tend to look for information. TV reporters look for emotion on camera, sound bites and pictures to go with words. Online journalists must constantly think in terms of different elements and how they complement and supplement each other: Look for words to go with images, audio and video to go with words, data that will lend itself to interactives, etc. . .
Remember that photos look better online when shot or cropped narrowly, and streaming video is easier to watch when backgrounds are plain and zooming minimal. Tape interviews whenever possible in case someone says something that would make a powerful clip. Look for personalities who could be interesting chat guests. And always keep an eye out for information that can be conveyed more effectively using interactive tools.
4. WRITE LIVELY AND TIGHT
Writing for the Web should be a cross between broadcast and print ? tighter and punchier than print, but more literate and detailed than broadcast writing. Write actively, not passively.
Good broadcast writing uses primarily tight, simple declarative sentences and sticks to one idea per sentence. It avoids the long clauses and passive writing of print. Every expressed idea flows logically into the next. Using these concepts in online writing makes the writing easier to understand and better holds readers? attention.
Strive for lively prose, leaning on strong verbs and sharp nouns. Inject your writing with a distinctive voice to help differentiate it from the multitude of content on the Web. Use humor. Try writing in a breezy style or with attitude. Conversational styles work particularly well on the Web. Online audiences are more accepting of unconventional writing styles.
At the same time, don?t forget that the traditional rules of writing apply online. Unfortunately, writing quality is inconsistent throughout most online news sites. Stories suffer from passive verbs, run-on sentences, mixed metaphors and cliches. This is a result of fast-paced news gathering, short staffing and inexperienced journalists. This is also a big mistake. Readers notice sloppy writing and they don?t forgive. They?ll stop reading a story and they won?t come back for more. Unlike local newspaper readers, online readers have options.
5. EXPLAIN
Don?t let yourself get caught up in the 24/7 wire-service mentality and think all that matters is that you have the latest news as fast as possible. Speed is important online. But people want to know not just what happened, but why it matters. And with all the information sources out there now, in the end it will be the sites that explain the news the best that succeed. Write and edit all your stories with this in mind.
6. NEVER BURY THE LEAD
You can?t afford to bury the lead online because if you do, few readers will get to it. When writing online, it?s essential to tell the reader quickly what the story is about and why they should keep reading ? or else they won?t.
One solution is to use a "Model T" story structure. In this model, a story?s lead ? the horizontal line of the T ? summarizes the story and, ideally, tells why it matters. The lead doesn't need to give away the ending, just give someone a reason to read on. Then, the rest of the story ? the vertical line of the T ? can take the form of just about any structure: the writer can tell the story narratively; provide an anecdote and then follow with the rest of the story; jump from one idea to another, in a ?stack of blocks? form; or simply continue into an inverted pyramid.
This enables the writer to quickly telegraph the most important information ? and a reason to keep reading ? and yet still retain the freedom to write the story in the way he or she wants to.
7. DON?T PILE ON
Another story structure that has evolved online, mostly by accident, is what I call The Pile-On.
A common problem with online writing occurs in breaking news stories. In an effort to seem as current as possible, sites will often put the latest development in a story at the top ? no matter how incremental the development. Then, they?ll pile the next development on the top, and then the next ? creating an ugly mish-mash of a story that makes sense only to someone who has been following the story closely all day. Unfortunately, the only people who are usually doing so are the journalists. Few readers visit a site more than once a day. Remember this when updating stories, and always keep the most important news in the lead.
8. SHORT BUT SWEET
Most stories online are too long for a Web audience, and few readers finish them. Roy Peter Clark has written a wonderful essay arguing that any story can be told in 800 words ? a good guideline for online writing.
But let that be a guideline, not a rule. Readers will stick with longer stories online if there is a compelling reason for a story to be that long ? and if it continues to captivate their attention.
Making readers scroll to get to the rest of a story is generally preferable to making them click. Online news users do scroll. If someone has clicked to get to a page, it's generally because they want to read the story, and thus chances are high that they will. The Poynter eyetrack study showed that about 75 percent of article text was read online ? far more than in print, where 20 to 25 percent of an article's text gets read, on average. Print readers have less vested in any given story, because they haven't done anything proactive to get the article.
9. BREAK IT UP
Larger blocks of text make reading on screens difficult, and you're more likely to lose readers. Using more subheads and bullets to separate text and ideas helps. Writing should be snappy and fast to read. Keep paragraphs and sentences short. Like this.
Try reading sentences aloud to see if they?re too long. You should be able to read an entire sentence without pausing for a breath.
It also helps to extract information into charts, tables, bulleted lists and interactive graphics. Even a simple box with a definition or summary can help break up text and convey information in an easy-to-read format.
10. ELIMINATE THE GUESSWORK
People often don?t know what they?re going to get when they click on stuff. And people are not going to click on something unless they know what they?re getting. When they click on something that?s not worth it, they lose trust in you as a source and are less likely to come back and click on things in the future. So make sure you tell people what they?re going to get.
Studies show online news users preferred straightforward headlines to funny or cute ones. Cute headlines didn't do as good a job of quickly explaining what a story is about and thus discouraged online users from clicking through.
11. DO NOT FEAR THE LINK
Don?t be afraid to link. Many sites have a paranoid fear that if they include links to other sites, readers will surf away and never return. Not true! People prefer to go to sites that do a good job of compiling click-worthy links ? witness Yahoo!?s success. If people know they can trust your site, they will come back for more.
At the same time, journalists have a responsibility to apply news judgment and editorial standards to the links they choose. Avoid linking to sites with blatantly false information or offensive content. Select links that enhance the value of the story by helping readers get additional information from the people behind the news.
And of course, link to related stories on your site, past and present. This is truly one of the advantages of the Web. By linking to other stories to provide context and background, writers have more freedom to focus on the news of the day without bogging stories down with old information.
source: www.cyberjournalist.net
my upcoming birthday
Saturday, November 18, 2006January 11,2006. Less than two months from now i'll be 18. There are things i want to do. Things i want to accomplish. Things i want to experience.
I'll be 18 only once, and i want to savor the moment. I'll only experience this for once in my life. My transition from childhood to being legally adult.Of course i am excited at the prospect of my iminent freedom.
On my 18th birthday i WISH to:
1. Celebrate my birthday rather differently. I want to do something worthwhile. I want something memorable. Though i always dreamed of celebrating it inside an army camp (my friends say its totally IMPOSSIBLE and WEIRD), and though a friend already assured me she can do something about it, it wont happen coz that day is our mid-term exam. So, i have to settle for something feasible and something close to reality to avoid unwanted disappointments.
so, instead of my dream birthday, i opted for something simple. Like, passing my exam perhaps (duh!too OA). On my birthday i want to celebrate it with my friends, and enjoy with them.(Though this is rather traditional and quite OA, i dont have a choice)
2. I will buy something for my 'camouflage/army collection. I hope i could find that "army bandanna".I always wanted to own one but i can't seem to find it whenever im ready to purchase it.
3. I want to learn target shooting. hehehe. One of my dreams is to learn target shooting. I hope i could try doing this sometimes.
4.Buy a really nice stuff toy. I always wanted to replace the one i have.
5. Purchase books!Lots of them.(though i would also prefer if somebody would give this to me.)I really wanted to have those books by John Grisham, io lost my copies after somebody took it withput permission. Also those by Jack Higgins and Ann Rice.
…Im really a simple person..i only have simple dreams…
i do hope this time people would greet me on the exact date. And i hope somebody would finally remember me.
………………
In my life, a lot of emotions remain unexpressed.
And this is where they all go. And this is what they all become. Junks in Cyberspace.
So what about?
Wonder what it mean?
Sagbot- a hiligaynon term meaning "kalat" or trash. May also refer to weeds.
Why? Because most of the posts in my blogs (yes, not just this one) contains rants and ravings--junks of my life.
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I started this blog in 2006, my first official blog outside social networks. The title of this blog was different then. The writing was even more different.
I had neglected this blog for more than a year now. I would post something from time to time but never really updated it. And now I am trying my best to ressurect this blog and hoping that I could somehow import my other blog here.
I started this blog when I was 17, and three years after I am now in the cross roads of my life. And this blog will be one of the silent witnesses of the ups and downs of my life.
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