Yay for winning new phones

Well yay for my little (6ft3?) bro, Rory, who won a phone (no its not a coincedence - thats the one pictured). Woo Hoo! i would like to win my degree so i can get out of this Godforsaken town - not one of my favourites at the moment!
We did have a very interesting debate in Journ today... How much should public journalism center around ideas in the head of journalists, and how much should be a representation of what the people themselves want to see? Should we be concerned with the 'issues' and uprooting inequality and foul play in their own community if its not something they themselves are that interested in. For example our JDD (Journalism, Democracy and Development) group are in the process of doing a story about matric dance story...Where is the journalistic merit in that? But girls in Standard 9 more than likely want to hear about it. ANd if in that story we can manage to slip in something that higlights the differnce between this celebration in Grahamstown East and West then all the better. I think we were all hoping for such interesting content and never before covered ground with this paper, however we still appear to be restricted by language and news values. Personally i don't see why a group that has the capacity to report in XHosa shouldn't - and i would welcome content from our workshops that is worthy. But here we pose another problem - what is worthy? It seems the questions here are endless. Our group i think is having the most rewarding experience with our workshops. The students are enthusiastic and interested, and thats such a change from the jaded students we are usually surrounded by. Perhaps what Siya said today is true - if you have nothing then any little thing seems amazing - however that does not take away from the validity of that feeling. And if people are being moved or moved to action, even debate, by our paper then what should be concernign us is the fact that that may stop when we are no longer producing it!
But while we (who?) are discussing journalism...
By an unfortunate typographical error we were made to say last week that
theretiring Mr Davids was a member of the defective branch of the police force.
Of course this should have read: "The detective branch of the police farce."
(from a New Zealand paper)