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Local Story Research

Louisiana's Representative, Mike Johnson, as of recently there's been articles of Mike taking action in the Pro-life/Pro-choice (Roe v. Wade) abortion movement. Numerous article's has been about this topic. In one, Mike worked on the House-passed Pregnancy Clinic Protection Act, which helped fend off attacks from naysayers (pro-abortion activists). John states, "There are 2,700 pregnancy care centers serving millions of women; they don't deserve this treatment. This is an important statement for Congress to make." (Hilburn, G. (2023, January 11). Louisiana's Steve Scalise, Mike Johnson setting the republican tone in Congress. The Times. Retrieved January 27, 2023, from https://www.shreveporttimes.com/story/news/2023/01/11/mike-johnson-anti-abortion-bill-sets-tone-setting-action-in-gop-congress-along-with-steve-scalise/69798911007/) Through twitter, there is a thread of the more info regarding the Pro-Life bill surfacing the state of Louisiana. Now known...

Fake News

 From what I've heard and/or seen from Younger adults, their main sources of News content would be Instagram, Twitter or any News outlets/articles (CNN, Fox, CBS, etc). The difference from this however, coming from more Middle aged adults (or elderly) their sources would be, News outlets, or Facebook. They seem to like less attraction with Social Media sources, than to the actual News sources on Television. Not a lot use Newspaper, there are still some who would mind hearing a radio station or podcast when in the car, but thing's have changed and moved onto a more mobilized form.  The way we grab an audience to be interested, is to keep things aligned with what people wish to see. Not everything needs to be boring with recent Politics, or a sad tragedy in said country. It could be about wholesome things, or amazing content such as a recent trailer to a movie is coming up to spread word about it. Or about an miracle happened during the holidays, humanity being humanity. With th...

Introduction

  It's great to meet you all, and thanks for reading. My name's Daaiyah (DIE-ee-YAH), and I'm a practicing Freelance Digital Illustrator. I've been working on digital art for about Ten years and more now, hopefully to do Character work or something similar to it. My style consist of Semi-Realism to Realism (usually when i do portraits on paper). A Fun fact to what i enjoy drawing, is Horror (from Slashers, Body horror, eldritch, etc.), Monsters, and Male anatomy. You can find examples of my work through my Instagram (@/unposture.mov), or Twitter (@/unposture_mov).  I join this course just for my associates degree in general, but would like to know more if this course would be useful in anyway to me or to peek any interest about journalism. I still don't know what to learn from journalism, but just look forward to learning anything that may be of help to me or better understanding to it.  From what I look at on the internet, Journalism is always continuous through th...