But according to the geologist on TV right now, big ones usually wind down (bigger to smaller magnitutes) and not wind up... so i guess i can stay put huh!
Anyway, yeah i was sleeping, suppose to wake up at 3pm to do my Japanese homework (if i go for the class today), TV was tuned to A&E network, it was about the Waco Texas thing... Funny i kept drifting i and out of sleep cause i kept feeling the room shake but that always happen when busses drove past the house. So i didn't bother. Then i dunno, i woke up and was lying down and the room shook, a few seconds, like maybe 5 seconds, a litter harder and longer than the usual shake from the bus... then i waited for the sound of the bus to zoom past, but nothing. hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm... this time i didn't think that it was monsters beneath my bed (as i did the first time i experienced an earthquake here), and knew that it was an earthquake since it has constantly been on my mind (and on the news) anyway.
so i logged online to confirm it with my friends.
Michelle messaged me first. she asked me if i felt the shake.
yeap it was definitely an earthquake.
flipped to channel 63 CNN. and it was there: 5.3 magnitute Earthquake has hit Southern California.
whoa! i knew that when my teacher said to me that broadcast reporting was live and at the edge, i didn't think it would be THIS quick!
Bravo to journalism further when i logged onto yahoo and saw that they ALREADY had a story up. WRITTEN story, mind you.
Woah! i guess we writing reporters can kick them broadcast reporter's ass too! thanks to the internet of coz ;)
Welcome to the new edge of journalism.
for the better of course. Because i knew for sure that when i flipped the channel to CNN, i would get more information and confirmation of the earthquake. I actually also did that when the first quake i felt happened.
However, with that speed of reporting.... what would that do to the accuracy of reporting? What about fact checking? What about not jumping into conclusions just yet?
Does the need for information overide these safechecks that gives journalism its integrity?
anyway.
as for me... Journalism "graduate", i don't mind it, at least because 1) I got the information and assurance that i need and 2) hellz, it wasn't my neck on the line to have to report the news breaking story within the minute of the event! haha!
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