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Author:
Sherrie North
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Date Posted: 21:35:32 04/18/04 Sun
In reply to:
Rik Thompson
's message, "Human Interest" on 00:23:32 04/14/04 Wed
Hmm, I wonder which local papers you're talking about. I don't love the Standard Examiner for everything, but it does seem to have a lot of human interest stories...at least the way I define human interest (profiles of local people, businesses, local issues, groups, etc.)
>Looking back on all the places I have been and lived
>in this country I find it hard to believe that the
>local paper here does not get involved with the human
>interest stories that placard other newspapers across
>the country. I remember in Journalism class how I
>loved the HI story the most. Oh, news stories are fun
>to write, after you fall off the pyramid a bit, but
>there are not as rewarding as the HI. Writing the HI
>gives one a feeling for the article, whether it is
>human, or non-human. You have an opportunity to know
>and understand the topic, thus passing on that
>knowledge and understanding to the readership. Believe
>it or not it does do something else. It introduces you
>to that building, that business, that person, or
>whatever it is you are writing about. As you read that
>history, and get acquainted with it you will find that
>when you do run into that which the writer of the
>article has imparted to you it could spark your
>imagination and you could find yourself delving
>further into it on your own. Pretty soon you are not
>only involved in a history lesson, you are also
>improving upon your own education, and curiosity. I am
>quite the proponent for the human interest story as it
>introduces us to friends we may never know we had.
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