The Bears are on Monday Night Football right now. If you’re reading this blog and you’re wondering where my mind is at right now, it’s basically at Soldier Field in Chicago.
After the devastation of a loss last week, the Bears could use this win. Chicago could use this win. I could use this win.
I’ve already got a win from earlier today when the Patriots traded a fifth round pick to the Browns for a very talented receiver in Josh Gordon.
I’m also winning because there’s going to be a new Kingdom Hearts III between now and like, 10 AM tomorrow.
Why the uncertain times? Because Square Enix and Disney just like to mess with everyone.
They just said “tomorrow.” “Tomorrow” is today in Japan. Japan is where the big gaming conference, the Tokyo Game Show, is happening. So, I think they’re going off of Japan time. If they are, I will get very little sleep.
I’ll be damned if I miss the premiere of a new trailer, even it’s at 4AM CST (8PM Japan time).
Regardless, this is how everyone who follows the Kingdom Hearts series feels:
It’s also the 16th Anniversary of the Kingdom Hearts series today! On this day in 2002, my life and the lives of many other nerds were changed.
So, that’s pretty cool.
If you’re still reading, I still really haven’t found a subject to focus this blog on.
Maybe sourcing?
Sure, let’s go with that.
Because I want to make this blog as journalistically significant as I can, I’ll talk to you briefly about sourcing now.
Sourcing is very important for a quality, journalistic piece. Considering what’s going on at the New York Times right now and all that’s going on with Bob Woodward and Washington right now, you’re probably thinking, “How can these works be quality if they use anonymous sourcing?”
They can be with trust. Bob Woodward is a very trustworthy writer due to his past works involving Watergate. The op-ed piece is different because it supposedly came from the White House.
I’m not a politics guy. I do know that the anonymity of that piece is important because there’s more information to come.
If a source fears that their jobs, positions or their life may be harmed in the result of their information being released, anonymous sourcing is completely ok. This anonymous piece gives the author room to continue their work and reveal more about what’s going on in there.
Sources are the cornerstone of journalism regardless. The journalist exists to be the medium between the masses and the source. Journalists are the story tellers and the sources are the stories waiting to happen.
Get what I’m saying? Like, the Kingdom Hearts Twitter account didn’t tweet that tweet up there just so I could write a half-assed blog about it. I operate around the tweet as a story-teller and include it in my content so that the tweet itself reaches my audiences.
Sources can be easy or hard to find. Just make sure to be nice to people so that you always are on a good enough ground to call someone when you know that they can be a help to you.
It’s all about who you know; in all aspects of life.
Keep your sources close.
Yeah.
Go Bears.
I’ll see you at 4AM or whenever the new Kingdom Hearts trailer drops.
~DS
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