Radio Project Final
Spring 2008
Due:
April 29, 2008
Please write a radio newscast using the sound available (all actualities are linked to the names of the people - they are underlined) and the information provided with each of the stories.
There has been no value placed on them. You can present them in whatever order you would like, depending on your news judgment.
In this radio newscast you will include the following actualities: Clinton and Obama (in which order you would like) on the campaign trail in Pennsylvania, Reporter Dan Raveeve on Jimmy Carter's visit to the Middle East and Mark Cooper on high gas prices.
You must also do one of the two sports stories, the Cavs beat Washington and Scott Skiles hired as the new coach of the Milwaukee Bucks.
Please do not exceed 2:30 on the newscast.
You will be evaluated for:
News judgment
Broadcast Journalism writing
Use of sound
Leads and transitions
Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama campaigning in Pennsylvania
With 158 pledged delegates at stake in Pennsylvania, the largest state remaining on the party’s primary calendar, the candidates raced from Scranton to Pittsburgh to Philadelphia — and a smattering of suburbs along the way — to rally their supporters and win over a dwindling lot of undecided voters.
While Mr. Obama spent nearly twice as much on television advertising in the state as Mrs. Clinton in the final days of the race, she broadcast a new commercial that used historic images from critical moments in the country’s past to ask voters whom they could trust in the White House. It did not mention Mr. Obama, but closed with “Who do you think has what it takes?”
Mr. Obama, after three days of criticizing Mrs. Clinton with some of his sharpest language of the campaign, did not directly engage her. But his campaign quickly responded with an advertisement of its own that asked voters: “Who in times of challenge will unite us — not use fear and calculation to divide us?”
Pennsylvania has become a major battleground in the fight for the Democratic presidential nomination, with the future of Mrs. Clinton’s campaign most likely resting on the outcome. Even a wide victory by her would not overcome her deficit in pledged delegates or in the popular vote of states that have held nominating contests, but it would ensure that the race moved on to contests in Indiana and North Carolina in two weeks, on May 6
Reporter Dan Raveeve on Jimmy Carter's visit to the Middle East.
Jimmy Carter said here on Monday that in talks in Damascus, Syria, over the last several days, he obtained a significant concession from the militant group Hamas regarding Israeli-Palestinian peace and found Syrian leaders eager for a full peace treaty with Israel.
Mr. Carter said he extracted a promise from Hamas to respect the creation of a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza Strip negotiated by Hamas’s rivals in the Palestinian Authority if it were ratified by a referendum of the Palestinian people.
Furthermore, Syrian leaders told him, he said, that “about 85 percent” of the issues between Syria’s government and Israel had been resolved in prior negotiations and that it wanted a peace deal “as soon as possible.”
Given the general pessimism surrounding Israeli-Arab peace, Mr. Carter’s upbeat assessment had a contrarian quality to it, as did his decision to meet in Damascus with President Bashar al-Assad of Syria and the Hamas leadership. The Bush administration has shunned Syria and considers Hamas a terrorist group, as does Israel, and had asked him not to hold the meetings.
Israelis have not generally welcomed Mr. Carter on this trip. Many of them consider him hostile to Israel’s interests, especially since the publication of his book “Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid” in 2006.
On Monday, Mr. Carter called the agreement on a Palestinian state, obtained from Hamas in writing, important because it appeared to mean that Hamas, which seized control of the Gaza Strip last June, would not disrupt negotiations or implementation of any accord if the Palestinian people supported it in a free vote.
Mark Cooper of the Consumer Confederation of America on high gas prices.
[Note Mark Cooper is not quoted in this article; he is an expert on consumer activities]
The average price for regular gasoline across the USA was a record $3.508 a gallon Monday, eclipsing the inflation-adjusted peak of $3.413 set in March 1981 — $1.417 back then — according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
The weekly average rose 11.9 cents from last week. Diesel was $4.143, up 8.4 cents.
Separately, the AAA and the Oil Price Information Service, which use a different method, reported a U.S. gasoline average of $3.503 Monday.
The two surveys emphasize what Americans already know: However the price is measured, fuel is more expensive than it's ever been.
Drivers are cutting back. Gasoline sales have fallen 2% to 11% a month since December
LeBron James leads Cavaliers to playoff win over Washington
LeBron James scored 30 points, had 12 assists and nine rebounds and the Cavs played their best game since the Feb. 21 megatrade, blowing out the Washington Wizards 116-86 to take a 2-0 lead in an opening-round playoff series oozing with bad blood.
The 30-point margin of victory was the largest in Cleveland's 112-game postseason history, and the Cavaliers' performance was perhaps their finest 48 minutes since November.
Scott Skiles New Milwaukee Bucks coach
The Milwaukee Bucks moved quickly to find their new coach, signing Scott Skiles to a four-year deal and introducing him at a news conference Monday.
Skiles takes over for Larry Krystkowiak, who was fired last week after a disappointing season.
The 44-year-old Skiles brings extensive NBA head coaching experience and a disciplinarian approach to Milwaukee -- something the Bucks didn't necessarily get from their two previous coaches, Krystkowiak and Terry Stotts.
And Skiles didn't back away from his reputation for being demanding on players.
"I always feel like I'm supposed to apologize for that," Skiles said. "And I'm not sure that's the tack I want to take. Anybody that is going to come to work with enthusiasm, concentrate and play hard will never have a problem with me. I don't care if they throw the ball in the seats 25 times a game."
Skiles then added: "They'll be pulled out of the game before they get to 25, of course, but they will never have a problem with me."
Skiles was fired by Chicago in December after making the playoffs in three of his first four seasons as the Bulls' head coach. Skiles also coached three seasons in Phoenix. He is a close friend of Krystkowiak, and spoke to him last week about the possibility of becoming his replacement. Skiles said Krystkowiak called it a "great" opportunity, and doesn't expect the decision to take the job would affect their friendship.