Dorm Room Bomb
This week I decided to comment about not an actual article but more or less a press release that is reported on in a newspaper. Of course any story that relates to colleges catches my eye so I immediately was drawn to a story on the front page of the USAToday web-page on on March 6 that described a situation of a student having an explosive device in his dorm room at University of California.
This was not an actual full article written by a journalist, but it was written more like a press release. There is actually no byline and no attribution to one source at all. The report gives credit to The Sacramento Bee and KTXL-TV for all of the information probably because it is more of a local story than national.
I like this type of article because it is straight to the point and gives you the most important information needed. Even though it was short, it even included quotes from the police involved and a spokesman for the university. An update was included that was written after the first report published. As aforementioned I prefer these articles to long, drawn out ones. I get all the information I need in as little as 5 paragraphs and that is how I believe news, especially breaking news, should be reported.
