Dark Clouds Rise Over Lafayette County

Storms dropped three inches of rain on Lafayette County Sunday. Although the National Weather Service issued a severe thunderstorm watch, no damage or flooding was reported in Oxford's southern region.

Koretzky makes several good points in his article. Mainly how he says that print journalism is almost dead. This can be seen everyday by just looking at how many newspapers now have online versions and those who don't are far behind. Students should focus more on the digital side of journalism than the print simply because of that fact.

Although Koretzky's starts his story with mostly negative statements, I tend to agree with his argument. Todays generation is moving on to mostly an all digital media forum. Efforts by newspapers themselves are even diminishing with switch in how people reciever there news. I think was a fairly accurate report.

College Students and Multimedia-Growing Up

As I was reading Koretzky's article, it made me thing about something-five years ago, if you had asked half of the Daily Mississippian's readers to pick up a book or newspaper, you would have had better luck getting a brick wall to do the same. It was more fun to lounge around making Myspace layouts, and giving deep thought to your "top 8". Now, though, we are college students and on the move. It is simpler to pick up a paper on the way to class than to fight with Ole Miss's wireless network for a website connection, and easier to type up a story in 30 minutes than to spend hours putting together a webpage. Times have changed, and newspapers are no longer a dreaded bore of lengthy words, they are an easy way to stay up to date on the news. In a way, it's my generation growing up. It's interesting how we've made this change, and when I see a college student flipping through a newspaper, I wander if this is similar to the first time my dad told me to turn down my music.

I thought Koretzky started article off rudly by saying basically all the entries were terrible and he could not even find one that he like. But, as I read I started to agree with him at the end because I also believethat our world today has begun to get over consumed with Facebook and Myspace. I also think having these things such Facebook and Myspace makes people lazy at writing because they are accostumed to unformally writing on these certain websites. Therefore, I believe these certain websites have made people lazy writers through the years.

I believe that with all the technology we are open to it takes more of a toll on our lives than the ordinary. Everyone in today's generation is about facebook or myspace, even businesses put adds through facebook. I agree Koretzky has good points but people in today's generation are moving on.

College Journalism Students And Clashing Multimedia

The article was very interesting coming from a Journalist Major like myself. Since I am in college and went through the same Myspace and Facebook routine along with other people my age, I understand internet posts being not as big of a deal. The Daily Mississipian that I picked up yesterday made me smile and even giggle at the articles. They were witty and all I could think about was being able to pick up a paper with my name on actual processed tree! Old-fashioned is valuable and rare, and who doesn't want that?

Are College Journalism Students Bad at Multimedia?

Michael Koretzky, adviser of the Florida Atlantic University Press, thinks so. And he lists the reasons why in an article published here. Do you agree or disagree with his assessment? What do you think?

Welcome to JOUR 102 ~ Intro to Multimedia Writing at the University of Mississippi!

Hello, All!

An exciting semester awaits us. Be prepared to work hard, to learn some valuable multimedia skills and to have some enjoyable moments along the way. Become acquainted with this, our class blog. You will be posting your field reporting assignments and other multimedia work here during this semester.

D. Jackson
Instructor of Journalism