Valentine's Day + other stuff

My Valentine's Day was so much fun! I only had to go to one of my classes.  I then got to hang out with Chad for about two hours then I lovingly ditched him, after giving him his Valentine, and went to the Lady A concert with Taylor and Emilee.  The concert was absolutely amazing.  I loved both Thompson Square and Darius Rucker, the opening bands, and I almost died when Lady A came out... they were amazing.

Notice his right foot :)

Because I had ditched him for Valentine's I wasn't planning on anything big for Valentine's day.  When I came home from the concert I found a balloon man on my bed with a sign around his neck that said "On our first Valentine's Day, You left me for Lady A.  Yes it was tough, but I was made of "stiffer" stuff.  And while all night I was blue, I stayed up waiting for you (sort of :) )."  Then to add to my delight I found a note with the man that said to check the fridge, where I found a key lime pie!  The combination of Chad Horch, my awesome roommates and Lady Antebellum made Valentine's Day 2012 one flipping amazing day. :)

This past weekend was President's weekend and it was full of things to do from a 50's sock hop where Chad got to show off his swing dance skills to hiking up Provo Canyon and drinking hot chocolate around a fire.  It has been a blast, but now it is time for school with midterms and a final (Geology, yay almost done!) all looming on the horizon I have quite a bit of studying and homework assignments to do.  But I am loving life and everyone that I get to share my life with! :)

Journalism Ethics

There are many aspects of ethics in journalism.  The five most important beliefs about ethics in journalism that I have are as follows.  First, getting as many facts as possible.  As a journalist I want to be able to say that I tried my very hardest to get all of the facts, so that I can give my readers or viewers the best and most accurate picture of a situation possible.  Second, treating people as people.  Even though it sometimes becomes hard to remember that the people that are being written about or talked about on television are human beings, that doesn’t mean that they are not.  Those people have feelings, reputations, and lives just like everyone else does and I need to remember that.  Third, not being influenced by outside forces.  When a story is being told by me the only reason that story will be told is for the people that will watch or read it.  I do not want money, a job, or anything else to influence the way I portray a story.  Fourth, when I make a mistake I will admit it.  Because I am human I will make mistakes, but when I do I will admit that I did and try to fix the situation in any way that I can.  Fifth, I will never fabricate news.  News should never be fiction, so I will only give straight facts and when I cannot find out something about the story I will admit it and make it clear that the information given is not all of the information that there is.