THE STUDENT VOICE December 2016 Students pick their favorite journalists. This edition endorses some favorite unbiased. Because of her transfer status, Hannah journalists picked by each student in our gave some good advice to our MVCC students, Journalism EN 149 class. as did Carissa with much detail in the gift pack for students, profile article on a small town After studying several famous journalists, the heroine in the Coast Guard Academy, and students give evidence what they admire in the politics. Alana exudes patience and strength and journalists. While not all the students will go on her articles are insistently non-political but to have Journalism as their major or career, all intensely social, like the pipeline battle and have benefited from reading excerpts of famous scams in airline tickets. Belkisa is brief but journalists and heeding to their intense –courageous in her viewpoint on the recommendations of what makes good Superbowl, social and political issues. Anna journalism and interest topics. would love to save the world and one can see Above all, taking responsibility to composed her passion when she writes about Aleppo and and publish each paper was a result of strong the adverse effects of police profiling. And Alex team work and leadership. All the articles we Ambruso, a past student contributed his fiery published in our papers over the semester show sports articles. Six of our students can the passion for the subject matter that each confidently say they will take on journalism: student chose to write about, with heavy Hannah, Amajla, Chris, Carissa, Belkisa, Anna , emphasis on political issues, social concerns, and Alec.. sports, and Utica and at MVCC news. I enjoyed the class because I had the pleasure This semester we were lucky to have many of knowing and working with these talented and different topics handled by our class. David responsible students. Every class chat was an Penner was an asset in fixing our document with eye-opener for us all. his computer skills and Chris Gray could bring With that being said, I would like to invite in the many photographs. Penner contributed students to take this course, Journalism, En 149 some excellent articles on politics, and Gray on and use the opportunity to express your views, social issues and an unsung musician. While educate others, and enjoy the teamwork. You Amajla contributed some interesting articles on will be a part of an important endeavor at games, refugees, and health issues, she MVCC, The Student Voice. discovered her skill in composing the paper in a matter of hours. Hannah put much color in our Prof. Alina Mildred Treis, PhD political journalism, she managed to be 1 Index Amajla Tricic A Voice for the Silent ……………………………………………………..3 Hannah Francisco Following the American Dream…………………………………………..6 Alana Wielgosz Ted Conover …………………………………………………………….…. 8 Belkisa Nuhanovic Christiane Amanpour Dangerous Conflicts …………………….……10 Alec Ambruso Stephen A Smith his humor …………………………………………….12 Chris Gray Gay Talese Details of an American Journalist ………………………14 Anna Compton Clarissa Ward A Journalist in hotspots ……………………………..16. David Penner Glenn Greenswald an Influential Journalist ………………………..20 Carissa Constantini Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood and the New Journalism………..21 2 Amajla Tricic A Voice for the Silent Richard Harding Davis was born in During his time at Lehigh University, he Philadelphia on April 18, 1864. David grew up was active in sports, student organizations, and with opportunities and recognition because his student publications; but his grades did not often parents were Rebecca Harding Davis, a novelist, reflect his intelligence. It was his literary career and Lemuel Clarke Davis, editorial writer for that proved he had something important to show The Philadelphia Inquirer. He grew up to be with the publication of his short stories The somewhat of a celebrity due to his mother’s Adventures of my Freshman. Because of his works prior to her marriage to Lemuel. The father’s influence and importance, Davis writings dealt with the horrors in the Iron Mills snagged a spot at the Philadelphia Records in and it struck a chord with audiences. Because of 1886 and then joined the Philadelphia Press in the literary influences he had around him December of that year where he gained fame for growing up as a child, it is not a surprise that he getting involved with a gang of thieves and would aspire to become a writer himself one covered the 1889 Johnston Flood. But it was not day. Not only were his parents an essential part until he signed with the New York Sun in 1889 of his ambitions, but also the books and articles that he felt his journalistic voice would be an he read intrigued and inspired him. important narrative and his own true direction. His fictional stories were a huge asset for his Many Gilded Age literary and theatrical success considering the public loved his fictional greats frequented the Davis household. short stories and books: Davis found their world fascinating. The Barrymores, Drews, Booths - even Henry His career in fiction writing achieved its Irving – filled his life with a theatrical spirit first major success with the publication and sense of drama that pervaded much of of the "Gallegher" stories in 1890. Their his later work. His own life and work main character based on an actual would influence other writers, such as newspaper copy boy in Philadelphia, the Sinclair Lewis, Jack London, Theodore stories, later published in hardcover Dreiser, H.L. Mencken, and Ernest editions, were an instant success with Hemingway.” (Cresswell) the public. These were accompanied by the equally successful "Van Bibber" stories. A series of adventures and 3 mishaps of a New York bon vivant, the Davis’s report used no dialogue at all. Its stories gradually evolved the main main impact is visual, establishing character into a person embodying traits atmosphere through the eerie predawn light considered typical of Davis’ characters: and the desolate landscape, and epitomizing a strong moral sense of right and wrong, the prisoner’s bravery in his stride, posture, and generosity toward those considered and quiet self-control. Davis seems to less advantaged by society” (Cresswell). narrate in slow motion, which increases the tension while adding importance to each Because of his literary success, he was able to small particular. Rodriguez’s spirit is begin editorship under Harper’s weekly in 1890 symbolized by two objects, a cigarette (still and five years later he joined the New York burning after the execution) and a scapular. Journal where his trips to Latin American (Kerrane 71) proved to be a big part of his journalistic career He is credited with bringing back the first The story begins with Davis describing the avocados from his 1895 trip to Venezuela that full moon and glowing of the light before the resulted in his "Three Gringos in Venezuela and soldiers arrived to prepare for the execution. The Central America". His sense of adventure was motionless of the soldiers and the silence of the fueled through his trips to Cuba and in crowd in his writing showed the way the people developing popular stories. The crisis in Cuba lived with a brutal government. And it isn’t until gave him that opportunity to do so because of the prisoner arrives that there is almost a sense the outbreak of the Spanish American war. of liveliness and rebellion in the air with his Many reporters and journalists focused on the stance and walk, “but as he came nearer I saw administrative and tactical part of the war, but that he led all the others, that the priests on the what drew many to Davis’s writings was that it either side of him were taking two steps to his showed the real human drama of the war. His one, and that they were tripping on their own Cuban and Puerto Rican campaigns still remain gowns and stumbling over the hollows in their a major primary source for Spanish American efforts to keep pace with him as he walked, erect War research. Not only did he cover that war, and soldierly, at a quick step in advance of but also he wrote about the Russo-Japanese War them” (Harding Davis 73). Rodriguez soon takes and World War 1. His most popular novel, the power that the soldiers had and levels it on Soldiers of Fortune was made into a play and himself, proving his own superiority regardless later a movie. of the circumstance – that he was beyond the situation. He was described as handsome and The Death of Rodriguez was one of his shockingly young for something so terrible, but writings that truly captivated me, not just for the he did not seem to care, holding a cigarette narrative, but for the flow and elegant detail of between his lips without fear. The only time he the writing. He makes a horrid moment in Cuba let go of his cigarette was to kiss the cross. What sound like a tale or fictional story. The story spoke to me was the loneliness the boy must follows a man by the name of Adolfo Rodriguez, have felt. There may have been a crowd to a twenty year old farmer’s son who is sentenced watch and speculate and soldiers and priests to to death for bearing arms against Spanish commence the execution, but there was a crowd authority. The execution did not allow friends or of people who did not truly understand his family to be present. In The Art of Fact, Kevin cause. “This man was alone, in sight of the hills Kerrane mentions the significance of small he knew, with only enemies about him, with no detail and senses.