Imagine you are the reporter of local daily of the city prepare a news report on pulling down the satuae of happy prince
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A good way to approach this assignment is to first think about what facts a reporter would have about the situation, and the chronological order of the events. Usually a newspaper article is interested in telling the facts of the story in the order they happened. Reporters also need to prioritize information that is interesting and useful for everybody to know. The events that we know about the statue being pulled down are:
The mayor and the councillors found the statue with no ruby, sapphires, or gold.
They also found a dead bird.
They decided that the statue should be torn down because it looked too “shabby.”
They argued about who the new statue should represent.
To understand these facts, the reporter would usually have to do an interview. I think a reporter might interview the mayor. You can imagine that interview, based on what you know about the mayor and the people in the town. The reporter might ask questions like “Why should we pull down the statue?” or “Won’t it be too expensive to pull down the statue, shouldn’t we give that money to the poor people in our town instead?” How do you think the mayor would answer these questions? What other questions could you ask the mayor to make your article interesting?
Depending on when you, the reporter, will be filing the story, there might be more facts and events you can talk about. For example, the reporter could also interview a worker at the foundry who found that the leaden heart would not melt. The reporter could interview a councillor who thinks the new statue should be of them and not of the mayor.
The mayor and the councillors found the statue with no ruby, sapphires, or gold.
They also found a dead bird.
They decided that the statue should be torn down because it looked too “shabby.”
They argued about who the new statue should represent.
To understand these facts, the reporter would usually have to do an interview. I think a reporter might interview the mayor. You can imagine that interview, based on what you know about the mayor and the people in the town. The reporter might ask questions like “Why should we pull down the statue?” or “Won’t it be too expensive to pull down the statue, shouldn’t we give that money to the poor people in our town instead?” How do you think the mayor would answer these questions? What other questions could you ask the mayor to make your article interesting?
Depending on when you, the reporter, will be filing the story, there might be more facts and events you can talk about. For example, the reporter could also interview a worker at the foundry who found that the leaden heart would not melt. The reporter could interview a councillor who thinks the new statue should be of them and not of the mayor.
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