WARNING- Dull Content proceed wit caution.

WARNING- Dull content: proceed with caution.

This is what I think should have been written in front of the assigned readings for today. BOOO!!!

Ya ok speeches, meetings, conferences, news-releases= all important contents of reporting.

But they are the dullest part of the job. BORING!!!

Before I become too disrespectful let me say that I have attended news conferences and meetings for almost every story I published and some of them were actually interesting. But I love journalism despite having to attend and read these.

It's like doing school homework. Read the following or listen to the following and give me a 200 word summery. DULL.

I admit they are important to stories. When reporting on an event or group a reporter can better understand the situation if he or she attends a meeting where the issue is discussed and it would be highly inefficient when someone of importance had to give a separate interview to all media answering the same questions. I just wish there was a better solution.

Probably the real reason I am so sour about them is because of the difficulty to get accurate information about them. Unlike in an interview you cannot immediately ask for clarification. The people will continue to talk in their own lingo and by the time you figure out their first point they are on their 5th point. They are also harder to concentrate on then an 8am calculus class. A tired brain can hardly produce accurate information. And what's more scare to a reporter then reporting false information? Its a nightmarish dilemma.