Publication Review

A. What is the article about?
The article is about a high school newspaper that was asked to submit their article about a visiting Supreme Court Justice for review. Many found this innapropriate and demeaning to the newspaper staff. It showed the government exercising control over the media at the high school level.




B. What do you think about the material/information in this article? How does it seem to fit with our journalism class?
It fits very well with our journalism class. Although our articles only need to go through our principles for the most part, a situation like this could occur at any time. I would be very offended if someone I interviewed or did an article on asked to review it before publishing. As a journalist, I take pride in my work. It would be very demeaning to be told that I was not mature enough to write an article that is factually correct.




C. What questions are you left with? What kind of articles in journalism would you like to read next?
I'm wondering why the school even handed the article over. Was it a legal obligation? Also, it seems to me as if maybe the press is making a bigger deal out of it than the actual journalism staff did. They most likely would have commented if they had felt strongly about the situation.