This past Wednesday the US House of Representatives passed a $819 billion stimulus package. The package, if enacted, will provide the governement with an extended coverage over the US economy by reshaping policy energy, education, health care, and social problems. The Senate is also preparing a measure that is near $900 billion. While both of these bills are being looked over in the Washington D.C. either one, if completly passed, will raise the US deficit to levels that have not been seen since World War II.
The main question is not "will either of these packages be passed" since President Obama has said that he wants a finale compromised version by Feb. 13th, the question for most people is "where are we getting all of this money from?"
While the House's stimulus package was being passed, leaders from China and Russia were blaming the downward turn of the world economy on US-led finacial system. With their investments in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, who had been the biggest foriegn investors in bonds the morgage giants for years, many Chinese leaders have been suprised and upset over the economic crisises. The Wall Street journal reported that "there is no evidence Beijing is pulling back on buying U.S. Treasurys" but that the Chinese central bank did quietly stop lending out its Treasury holdings for fear that borrowers will go bankrupt.
I don't know how the rest of the country feels, but this reporter feels like the country is on a colision course with bad economic policies and a rising debt. The results will not be pretty!!!! More to come as this long story develops further.
Friday, January 30, 2009
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
An article written about me (by me) *this is an assignment so don't judge me, I'm not narcissistic*
Matthew Antwine
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Reporting 3120
Thursday, Jan. 22, 2008
MEMPHIS--- While most of the students entering college focus on jobs in high paying professions like law and science for one student at the University of Memphis, Journalism is the only way to go.
For Matthew Antwine, 19, of Munford, journalism is a career that seems to make the most sense right now.
“People love to be informed about what is happening around them, whether it is local, state wide, nationally or internationally,” Antwine said. “And right now this world has so many history making events that we need journalists who know who to right and report. We need them as journalists to not only report these events to the people with journalist integrity but to also record these events for future generations.”
Antwine, a sophomore at the university, has recently become one of the new staff writers for the university’s paper The Daily Helmsman. The Helmsman will not be the first time that Antwine has had articles published, as he had ended an internship at his local county paper this past November.
For Antwine, the chance to be a journalist is a chance to bring a change to what he says journalism has become in this day and age.
“During this past election, I saw Saturday Night Live act more objectively in their parodies than I did with the journalists asking the candidates questions. I would have asked both candidates questions about their plans or their campaigns without being partial to one side, that is called being objective,” Antwine said.
As for the future of Journalism, Antwine is more concerned about the tactics and objectivism of journalist more than the move to online journalism. He says that as long as the integrity and objectivism are in the journalist of tomorrow the format of the way people read it won’t matter.
“Journalism is heading towards more online publications, and while that is sad it is not necessarily frightening for me,” Antwine said. “It isn’t what a journalist writes on, be it paper or on the web, it is how they write it and how they report a story that truly matters.”
Though only a sophomore Antwine says he has already noticed that his fellow journalism students carry a great sense of objectivism and journalistic integrity with them.
With graduation just two years away Antwine says that though it will be a long and hard road, he wishes one day to report on international affairs.
“Matt is the kind of person that likes to see the small things happening but he loves to see the big picture,” said his close friend Megan Brown. “He likes to inform his friends when something happens either nationally or internationally that can affect all of us.”
Article 1
Reporting 3120
Thursday, Jan. 22, 2008
MEMPHIS--- While most of the students entering college focus on jobs in high paying professions like law and science for one student at the University of Memphis, Journalism is the only way to go.
For Matthew Antwine, 19, of Munford, journalism is a career that seems to make the most sense right now.
“People love to be informed about what is happening around them, whether it is local, state wide, nationally or internationally,” Antwine said. “And right now this world has so many history making events that we need journalists who know who to right and report. We need them as journalists to not only report these events to the people with journalist integrity but to also record these events for future generations.”
Antwine, a sophomore at the university, has recently become one of the new staff writers for the university’s paper The Daily Helmsman. The Helmsman will not be the first time that Antwine has had articles published, as he had ended an internship at his local county paper this past November.
For Antwine, the chance to be a journalist is a chance to bring a change to what he says journalism has become in this day and age.
“During this past election, I saw Saturday Night Live act more objectively in their parodies than I did with the journalists asking the candidates questions. I would have asked both candidates questions about their plans or their campaigns without being partial to one side, that is called being objective,” Antwine said.
As for the future of Journalism, Antwine is more concerned about the tactics and objectivism of journalist more than the move to online journalism. He says that as long as the integrity and objectivism are in the journalist of tomorrow the format of the way people read it won’t matter.
“Journalism is heading towards more online publications, and while that is sad it is not necessarily frightening for me,” Antwine said. “It isn’t what a journalist writes on, be it paper or on the web, it is how they write it and how they report a story that truly matters.”
Though only a sophomore Antwine says he has already noticed that his fellow journalism students carry a great sense of objectivism and journalistic integrity with them.
With graduation just two years away Antwine says that though it will be a long and hard road, he wishes one day to report on international affairs.
“Matt is the kind of person that likes to see the small things happening but he loves to see the big picture,” said his close friend Megan Brown. “He likes to inform his friends when something happens either nationally or internationally that can affect all of us.”
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