Reviewing a Review: Saving Private Ryan

The movie that was being reviewed is Saving Private Ryan. The writer of this review gives good detail about what the movie is like and what to expect throughout the movie. The review gives you a good idea of how gruesome war can be. The reviewer uses the words "War is Hell" to describe how Steven Spielberg portrayed the movie. However, I don’t feel this review gives enough background information about the movie. He doesn’t summarize the movie besides that Capt. Miller (Tom Hanks) is leading his troops on a mission to find Private Ryan (Matt Damon.)

The point of view from this review is that the movie portrays war as hell. The reviewer does give plenty example of how that is portrayed throughout the movie. It is clear that the reviewer found this movie to be very enjoyable. In addition, I think he sways more towards giving his point of view rather than giving a better summary of the movie. He starts off with a strong point of view and sticks with it throughout his review.

Since I have seen this movie I thought that it was a good review because I understood everything he was talking about. On the other hand, if i had not seen Saving Private Ryan yet, I might find this review a little bit confusing. The Real Review

A Day in the Life of the Paparazzi

This story is about a journalist who follows around this guy Wagner, who is a paparazzi. Before reading this article my thoughts on the paparazzi were the same as most people's which is they are inconsiderate, rude, and don't let celebrities live a normal life. When in reality, the only reason these people have jobs is because we want the dirt and stories about celebrities. The paparazzi is only doing their job. They are just trying to make a living. Yes there are times when some go over the top and cross that line but in most cases the celebrities are not being bothered, they are just having multiple photographers snap their photo. The one question I have after reading this article is how much celebrities actually don't like the paparazzi because it seems like some might enjoy them taking their photos while they are out in public. Whole Story

Top Five Blogs

1.       Hoopshype is a website dedicated to all things NBA. They have weekly feature stories on different NBA players. The thing I like most about this website is their rumors page where you can find all the latest news on what happening in the NBA. They don’t just give you the major sports stories they give updates on all players. HoopsHype

2.       Seattle Sportsnet is a blog that touches on all Seattle sports. In addition, they will write about general sports stories but mostly only ones that are big news. It keeps me on the inside of all things relating to Seattle sports since it is hard for me to stay caught up since I am down in Arizona now. Seattle Sportsnet

3.       Terezowens is a blog that reports rumors and stories about athletes. This site doesn’t have much of a filter on what they report on athletes. If you are ever looking to find any “dirt” on an athlete Terez is your site because anything negative on an athlete and he will post about it with details. Anyone is allowed to report a tip on a story. This site seems to have really caught on in the past few years.  TerezOwens

4.       Truehoop is a sister site to ESPN. Truehoop is solely about basketball. They have multiple journalists you all write on different subjects regarding the NBA. It gives good insight on all subjects NBA. It is a really good site to look to regarding information of the NBA lockout. TrueHoop

5.       Fieldgulls is a blog that discusses all things about the Seattle Seahawks. Again, since I am currently not living in Seattle this blog is a good source of information to keep me updated with what is going on with my team. This is my favorite Seattle sports blog because it is very reader friendly. It has many options on the site, many links, and gives you the option to post on the site and share your opinion with other readers.  Fieldgulls

Feature Story: Tiger Woods

This story features Tiger Woods and all the drama and chaos that has surrounded him since his infamous night on Thanksgiving in 2009. The article covers all the details from the night when he crashed his Cadillac Escalade into a tree just outside his drive around 2 in the morning. This all came about because Tiger’s wife Elin Nordergen discovered that Tiger had been cheating on her with another woman after she had read through Tiger’s text messages. The story revolves around Tiger Woods and how he has handled the press and all the negative attention that has come his way since it became known that he had been in the middle of an infidelity scandal. This feature comes across an investigative feature along with historical because there is much to this story that you can never do enough investigating to come across revelations that you had never heard about before. Plus it is historic in a sense because our country has probably never seen such a superstar in the middle of a controversy that the whole country is invested in. The conflict in the feature is how Tiger Woods had been hiding for years all these women he had been cheating on his wife with and yet it had been kept a secret for so long. In addition, the conflict rises dramatically once it became public that Tiger had cheated on his wife, more than a dozen women came out over the next couple of weeks saying that had slept with Tiger while he had been married to Elin. We are still waiting to see how this story resolves because in Tiger’s case it seems that he can’t get back to where he was before this scandal broke on and off the golf course. I believe the main theme from this article proves embarrassment on Tiger’s part, along with sadness and disappointment from the Tiger’s fans and the public audience. We haven’t seen an athlete fall so far from grace so fast. Most athletes who have faced a scandal or a large time off from what they do best, they all were able to come back. However, Tiger still seems far away from where he should be. The author of this feature doesn’t necessarily give his point of view or opinion he mostly just talks about how Tiger is trying to come back into golf after dealing with all this negativity publicity and how he has handled everything that has been thrown his way.This story really grabs my interest because I follow Tiger Woods with a passion. I love the man’s competitive spirit and how he dominates his sport for so long. The story of Tiger’s downfall upsets me because I wanted to see him break Jack Nicklaus record of 18 majors and become known as the world’s greatest golfer. There are so many questions that I still have that I assume I will never figure out an answer for because Tiger has made sure that the majority of the juiciness of what he did and how it all went down will never get out to the public. But I do hope Tiger is able to make his comeback in 2012 and regain his throne as the world’s best golfer again.