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  • A Quick Analysis

    (I can’t help feeling like this is a blatant flailing around of my ignorance, but here it is anyway.) ABC’s “Nightline” from 3/30 opens with a billboard:  headlines superimposed over clips, some complete with nat sound from upcoming stories—all very active scenes to give the audience the feeling of “things happening” that people tend stop…

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  • ABC Nightline 3/30

    Leaving this here to find later.  Supposed to analyze it.  Will update with that in a bit. ABC “Nightline” 3/30 Update:  Analysis posted and linked on Writing Assignments page

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  • Having to do with another class not unrelated

    It never occurred to me that it might be difficult to switch back and forth between writing with a flat-facts-news mindset and writing with a storytelling mindset.  I like talking to people and hearing their stories, but apparently somewhere in the last couple of years more or less I started looking for things as stories…

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