Never Stay Silent - Grant Hines

       As an aspiring journalist and frequent consumer of the news, across many platforms, I see AP and Reuters content EVERYWHERE. These wire services have been a prominent source for many mainstream news outlets in their information sourcing, especially when it comes to photos. In my consumption of news, AP comes up a lot more than Reuters as a source for stories and has seemed like the more popular option for outlets to use.      It was interesting to hear the innovation and trends that these wire services set when it came to technology. When Reuters first started in 1851 they used the telegraph to transmit stock market quotes from London to Paris, which was revolutionary at the time. Before the telegraph, and other devices like the wirephoto , a story that would take days to reach the other side of the world, could now be sent in a few minutes. The telegraph would send morse code messages from one device to another through a line. In a sense, it was a form of email before the inte

  Throughout the history and workings of the supreme court, one thing remains remarkable that Justice Day O'Connor pointed out. "Whether you have a high-priced attorney or you're a prisoner writing from their cell, everyone is afforded the same petition under certiorari." If the president is trying to explain to the court that what he is executing is constitutional or a convicted felon is trying to get their conviction overturned, the court affords the right to be considered to everyone. What I took away from the  documentary  was not so much about the court itself, but the justices and their lives. It seems that getting appointed to the bench is a humbling experience in itself, but the justices are humble among the other justices as well. Despite their difference of opinions, including matters of life and death, they can still have civil conversations and be friends. Justice Ginsburg said in a  Hulu documentary about her life that she would get along quite well with

       I have always been a person that could talk someone's head off for hours, about any and everything. I have always been one to know, what I like to call "dumb facts," small stuff that an average person wouldn't know or doesn't care about. Although oftentimes, I feel as if they should care about them. One of the main reasons I choose High Point University was because my freshman year was the premiere year of the Webb School of Engineering. Yes, I came to HPU intending to be a Computer Engineering major, isn't that something! From the end of high school up until the start of my time at HPU, the idea of becoming an engineer was waning, and I knew that a career in the field of communication was my true calling. I cracked four weeks into the school year and declared Media Production and Entrepunership as my first major, and now I am a Journalism major on the Broadcast track. Why Journalism?     I didn't realize it until my late teens, but I have never rea