2009 Presidential Inaguration

To be honest I was pretty nervous the minute Pam said we had to interview people about what they thought of the inaguration. Interviewing random people has never been my favorite thing to do, especially about the topic at hand. I was lost and didn't know how to approach these people in order to get an answer from them. However as the night went on I felt more comfortable due to the fact that we were in groups and that if soemthing were to happend they'd had my back. By the end of the night I felt really good about the way things went.

We were a group of four media students walking around campus trying to find people that would take the time to answer a few questions. Some people were very kind about it but some people weren't very helpfull. We would approach certain people with a sense of insecurity because you just have no expectations whatsoever, you might walk away feeling uncomfortable, but you can also walk away pretty comofortable about what you did.

I was tremendously surprised at how many people didnt' watch it and at how many people didn't even care, quoting "It's just another President." I just can't beleive how some people, being american citizens aren't able to leave aside thier point of views and take a look at the historical moment not only America, but the whole world has witnessed. On the other hand you see people besides African Americans, that are completely overwhelmed, quoting " I never thought this day would come." It means something to them becasue they love their country and they have high hopes for what Barack has promised to do and change.

Being out there in the real world it's something very challenging to do, you hear and see many different things at once, you just don't know how to handle it. However when you finally realized you have made it through and have reality, true fact information, after a long time of discussing and obvserving, you now want to let it out into the world through a medium you think people are going to hear about. In this case, the medium used was Twitter.com

I have never used this tool before and thought it was great way to publish critical information anytime you needed to. Millions of people are going to be aware of it and this is a big gain, however what gets lost, is the fact you that you have limited space to write out the information so you are not abe to provide the information in a detailed, specific manner. In conlcusion I think is a very useful reporting tool.