Warm-up: The Do's and Dont's of Asking Questions

1. Barack Obama-

 What was your motivation on becoming the president of the United States?

 

2. Daniel Girard

 How does it feel to be a Principal at Akins?

 

3. Lady Gaga-

 What made you for who you are today "Lady Gaga"?

 

4. Tyler Hamilton-

 How did you feel when you won your first Tour De France?

 

5. Lance Armstrong-

What was going thru your mind when you won all 7 Tour De France?

Tyler Hamilton Interview

Part A. When we watch the video provide an example of the following: 

• "Did you actually witness it"

• "He was using EPO in The tour De France"

• "Did you get a lunch bag? What was inside the lunch bag?"

Part B. Answer the following questions:

1. What question got the best answer from Tyler Hamilton?

"How did you feel when you got your "lunch bag"?"

2. What's a question you have for Tyler Hamilton that was not asked?I would wanna ask why is Lance Armstrong not admitting, and why did Tyler wait to tell.

3. What can you observe about Tyler Hamilton's behavior as he answers the questions? Does he appear comfortable or uncomfortable? How can you tell?
Tyler Hamilton seemed calm, and comfortable.

Types of Questions

• Closed Ended Question: A question that allows the interviewee to answer with a yes-no or one word answer.
• Open-Ended Question: A question that forces the interviewee or answer with more than a yes-no one-word answer.
• Follow-Up Question: A question that originates from listening to something the interviewee says.

Interviews: Preparing questions and Interviews

Dealing with Sources

1. How do you avoid one-word answers, according to Larry King? (2:15)

Ask questions, and ask "Why" a lot since if why is answered in one sentence it cant be a one word answer.

2. What does Linda Ellerbee say is the question that all interviews have in common? (2:55)

 All questions are "What it would like to be you" and all have the same in common.

Interviews: Preparing Questions

3. What problem can occur if you stick to a list of questions during an interview, according to Elizabeth Arnold? (5:30)

 What can happen is that your asking questions and not listening to the answers, and if you just ask questions and have a real conversation with them you can get a natural conversation and the person will be more out to give more interesting answers.

4. What is the example that Sam Donaldson gives in respect to sticking with a list of prewritten questions during an interview (6:30)

Sam Donaldson says "Where were you born," and the person reply "I'm gonna declare world war lll tomorrow" and then the interviewee ask "how old are you".

 5. What is Shirley Biagi's rule about what happens if you are talking more than 10 percent of the time? What is the result if you do this? (7:45)

 Shirley Biagi says "If your talking more than 10 percent of the time your talking to much..." . She says if you talk much during the time then the story will come about you and not the person your interviewing at the end.

Interviews: Listening

6. What does Joyce Davis say a reporter can get if you just "shut up" and listen? (9:00)
The interviewee will open up and talk more if you just sit there and listen to them.

7. What does Roger Ebert say is often more interesting than the answers an interviewee gives to a reporter's questions? (9:40)
 Roger Ebert says to watch people how they act is more interesting than the answers an interviewee.

Eagle’s Eye Leads

1.       Which of the 5 Ws and H are included in this lead:

a.       Who: Small group of Criminal Justice Members

b.      What: Get to go to Travis County Jail

c.       Why: Three year process

d.      When: During the school year

e.      Where: Travis County Correctional Center

f.        How:Because of the 3 year program.

2.       In your opinion is this an interesting lead? Yes in my opinion this is an interesting lead because its unusual and no one really gets to hear about students going to jail at this school to view how they are and how its like for their career.

3.       Does it make you want to read more of the story? Why or why not?

Yes it makes me want to read more of this story, because if i were to want to get into that program or that class it wuold be interesting to get to get out of class for 2 periods long and go visit the jail and observe what goes on and what the correctional officers did to work in the criminal justice field.

4.       What is the news of this story?Akins High School Criminal Justice students getting to go to Travis County Jail.

5.       Students journalists tend to have a hard time to write without including opinion. Read the article closely to detect OPINION. If you see anything that you believe to be opinion that is unattributed (not in a direct or indirect quote) to a source, copy the sentence that contains the opinion on your blog. 

NO OPINION

6.       Explain why you believe this section of the article is opinion.

7.       Explain how the writer could have avoided using opinion in the article.

8.       Explain whether you think the writer is biased or just sloppy with their writing.