Journo Heros: Barbara Walters Presentation

For more information on Barbara Walters, below I provided a youtube video that I found very interesting. In this video you can also see the type of questions that she would ask people when interviewing them, which made her stand out from other journalists. I definitely recommend watching, in order to see the type of personality Barbara Walters has.

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Lincoln vs. The Press

Abraham Lincoln was a man of many talents. From an emancipator, to politician, a military leader, and many others... but what is not often talked about was his manipulation of media during the civil war. Did Lincoln violate the rights of citizens protected under the constitution or did he do what was best for the nation? During the time of the Civil War, the federal government restricted the first amendment, specifically freedom of speech and freedom of the press. Journalists and newspapers were restricted. You could have even been arrested if you were to speak out against the draft, enlistments, and even income tax. Lincoln and Military General John McClernand history.com During this time union generals believed it was best to restrict the publishing of battle plans to the for military gain. Lincoln ordered union generals to hinder the release of battle plans and restricted the press from releasing military information and battle plans. This oppression of th...

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For those of you who do not know, there is a prevalent issue in the world of Journalism today. Our press freedom is at risk everyday that we allow the torturing of Julian Assange to take place. Julian Assange, who is the founder of WikiLeaks and an Australian journalist, has been charged with 17 counts of espionage after leaking a host of secrets that the United States government has been keeping from us, those secrets that include the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. What brought a great load of attention was a video known as “Collateral Murder ”, this was a video of US soldiers shooting a number of innocent people and laughing about it from a helicopter in Baghdad in 2007. Assange is now being held in confinement in the Belmarsh Prison, one of Britain's most notorious maximum-security prisons by the United States government due to espionage. He is held in solitary confinement 23 hours of the day and is reported to be in ill conditions, sounds more like tort...

Rachel Deodato Q News Beautiful and Groundbreaking Mariana H. Qubein, High Point University’s First Lady, love for gardening began when she was a little girl who watched her parents work with roses and flower beds. This love for gardening would soon grow into a passion that has brought life and beauty to the High Point community and college campus. At the start of her husband's presidency at HPU, “the landscape became like a painting for us to envision a garden here and there.” The Eleanor Horsey Ridley Rose Garden The first garden to be planted was The Eleanor Horsey Ridley Rose Garden located in front of the Smith Library. The development of these gardens and the expansion of the tree canopy became known as the Mariana H. Qubein Arboretum and Botanical Gardens. HPU now consists of 28 gardens, nine plant collections, and more than 700 trees. “I have a lot of favorites but each is so different. The Ridley Rose garden stands out because I...

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