Never Stay Silent - Grant Hines

       "Nigger go home" read the note that was left on the young black intern's desk when she was still an intern at The Boston Herald . For some entering the industry, this may be enough to deter them from wanting to continue, but not for Gwen Ifill . In fact, because she didn't let that note bother her she was hired by The Herald shortly after graduating from Simmons College. From there, her career blossomed and she definitely broke through the journalism and TV broadcasting scene.      Ifill was born in Jamaica, Queens, New York City to immigrant parents, one of whom was an A.M.E. pastor. Her father's pastoring took the family up and down New England, with little to no money. Throughout her childhood, Ifill and her family lived in the houses of her father's church members as well as through assistance from the government. This did not hinder her education one bit, as she graduated from high school and then college, on time. After her time at The Herald, she

       The topic of news sources has been a recurring topic for me this year, especially since starting journalism courses. When Professor Joe Michaels recounted his experience directing NBC'S TODAY on 9/11  this year he explained that back then, producers required three credible sources before they went to air with information. There was no relying on other outlets for information (i.e. Attributing U.S.A. Today about a story that is run on The Today Show ). In Dr. Nahed Eltantawy's Reporting and Writing Across Platforms class, she taught the importance of cultivating and maintaining credible sources. This is important if you are assigned to a specific beat such as crime or government because it makes gathering information a lot easier. As I heard from the group that presented their EOTO 3 on Reliable Sources, this isn't the case so much in today's media landscape. Nowadays it's about being first rather than right. Since TV news is a money-driven business run by rat

       After having watched  Good Night and Good Luck  for the second time, I couldn't help but compare it to the way the media operates today. In 1953, the year the film takes place, was the beginning of broadcast TV and cable news did not yet exist. The way CBS then and the current cable news landscape operate had similar traits. For one, the topic at hand, whether people were communist or not based on speculation is a way that the network could stir drama based on nothing. In an odd way, it reminded me of the 2020 election and the baseless claims that Donald Trump was making to try to prove that the election was fraudulent. An example from the movie is the Air Force officer, Milo Radulovich , being discharged from the service because his family were known communists and he refused to denounce them. This example is more believable than the others, but what crazed me was the example of the internal conflict CBS had related to communists. On one of the stories that Murrow's sh