Today is the wonderful Hallmark holiday of Valentines Day. The semi-fake holiday that was just created from the good old spirit of consumerism. Don’t get me wrong, I like the holiday, I did a story about the holiday this week. It was one of those stories about a holiday that every other reporter is doing. So how does one go about separating themselves from the crowd? Not just a news story in your area that everyone is covering but pretty much everyone in the country and in the world.

I was on the Onion’s sports page the other day and was immediately drawn to this article titled: Huge Chunk of Nation You’d Never Want to Meet Excited for Daytona 500. So of course I had to check it out. Like most of the articles I have discovered on the site, it was short, funny, interesting and relatable.

I have been working on this story all week about a fundraiser that a local high school is doing for Haiti. The teacher that is ahead of the club organizing it has been really kind and helpful with setting up interviews and such. But, he has not been completely informative about the details of the fundraiser.

Social media began as a fad in the online world. A fad, that I have to admit, was not one that I wanted to be apart of at first (but of course I have changed my mind.) I was a late adopter of Facebook, I didn’t create my own page until I graduated high school which was about 3 years after it hit the scene.