Target aims to continue outdoing themselves as it continues to see growth in revenue and build on company traffic as well as guest relations. 

Brian Cornell, CEO of Target, came out with a letter to shareholders in the company’s 2022 annual report. Since 2019, Target has been putting up increasing numbers in traffic and revenue that they themselves didn’t even have plans for. As a supermarket giant, they aim to keep up the pace, but only at a steady level this time. 

“In the core pandemic years of 2020 and 2021, we spiked to never-seen-before growth rates that stretched our model to new limits,” Cornell wrote shedding light on the fact that not all of their recent growth has been steady. Cornell then went on to say that they as a company were able to manage this due to fundamentals, conciseness, and keeping guest relations well while doing so. He also feels like more and more people are putting their trust into target when it comes to their everyday needs which speaks to the loyalty and trust that Target has been able to build with their customers. 

Still speaking on loyalty and trust between the company and customers, Cornell said, “this flexibility and focus on guests consistently delivers growth whether in the pre-pandemic years of 2017-2019, or in the peak of the pandemic…” 

Target plans to keep up the accelerated growth, only at a steady pace this time and Cornell believes that they are in the correct place to do so. New revenue gain goals for the company’s future are blasting the anticipated revenue gain goals from before by nearly more than $35 billion due to their unanticipated scale of growth. 

With that being said, Cornell sees an opportunity to be able to save money for the company and continue growing steadily in the future while still being able to deliver quality product and experiences for its customers.

Down With Efficiency. (When We Get Around to It.)

To start I think this header is pretty mid. The thing that reeled me into this article was the header that you click on before opening the article that said “I Am So, So Over Efficiency.” I think this captured my attention because it’s in first person. I then came to realize that this is an opinion article. This then led me to question what the importance of this person’s opinion is? Who is this person enough for someone to care about their opinion?

I think I like this sort of option when it comes to news outlets because it’s different from traditional “news” format in which you’re reporting on an event or on someone else. It sways more towards the entertaining side of “news” as opposed to just being informative.

I do believe that this article is pretty boring to read though. From the start, it uses a lot of colorful wording that may be easy for someone to not want to continue reading. I like the message or the article though. I agree with a lot of the things that Parker Richards had to say, but I also don’t understand a lot of the points he’s trying to make.

Overall, I think it gets its point across in a concise way. It’s good to get away from the traditional news so I like this side of journalism that New York Times has to offer.

Thomas Ritchie, social and digital media expert, shares his personal interests and thoughts on new-age journalism in this interview recap.

From Waterloo, Iowa, Thomas Ritchie is a digital media expert who graduated from Mount Marty College. Ritchie grew up wanting to be a farmer as a result of the idolization of his grandfather, but ended up taking a different route in his career field. He also loved hockey, which he played all throughout high school, but went on to get a mass communications degree with a minor in marketing propelling him in to the business and media world.

For 25 years Ritchie did journalism at multiple different outlets, Argus Leader being the biggest, but he also has had a number of other jobs. Currently, Thomas works for the largest trucking insurance company in the world where he writes content for blogs as well as advertising content in order to get people interested in the company and to get people to understand the company is legit. “I miss journalism every day,” Ritchie reminisced when asked about his past in the field. He’s also worked in healthcare for some time, as well as teaching social media courses at a community college when social media was relatively new. He describes social media as being a big reason journalism has changed over the years.

“Journalism began to die out,” Thomas mentioned when talking about how social media has changed communications. He described media formatting as being a lot more strict before social media came about because it’s now a lot more common for media outlets to use an opinon-based type of journalism aside from the traditional television ‘news’ style.

He also got to experience the effects of social media first hand. Working at the Argus Leader, Thomas was alongside nearly 70 creative employers daily who worked with him as well, over the years that number of employers dropped down to less than 15 people. Nonetheless, Ritchie describes having worked at a large media outlet as being exciting. “I loved how going to work was never the same,” Ritchie said when talking about the Argus Leader.

Now, working in marketing, Ritchie believes that journalism transfers well. A lot of marketing involves being able to write and creativeness due to having to pull people into your business according to Ritchie. It’s different in a sense that you go from a lot of storytelling to advertising and targeting, but much of the skills needed in journalism and the media world are skills that are used in marketing.

The use of source criticism in everyday life is something that Joe Ciriaco deems as useful from day to day.

Source criticism is defined by many as a set of skills that allows for healthy skepticism when it comes to the nature of sources and human sources. Earlier I interviewed Joe, a senior here at Morningside University, about any useful skills of his and he decided that this skill is source criticism.

“Practice. You have to read that over time and you start to see themes and patterns that are similar. People have similar motives and as humans we can kind of understand how people think over time,” Joe said when asked how he acquired this skill. At Morningside Joe is a History major, so a lot of his studies have to do with history and the criticism of it.

Since Joe uses this skill in his field of study, I asked him when he plans to use this skill and in what type of setting. “I think it could be used any time you talk to someone.” Joe describes this skill as being a burden sometimes in a sense that it can be tough to have a normal conversation with people because of being over skeptical. Day to day life and in the media are the biggest places that Joe plans on using source criticism in order to ‘understand what’s in front of you’ and be able to avoid gullibility.

Powdered Hair to Hoodies: How Did the Senate Get Here?

I like what this article is doing. I usually do my news comments on sports but I went to the home page and this is the first story that caught my eye. First I’m thinking, powdered hair, what does that even mean? When did branches of the US government ever wear hoodies? I think a title and lead is always good when it gets you thinking and asking questions to yourself because then you get skeptical and want to learn more.

I like how the article puts the government in another light. It takes away from the seriousness of the government and puts them over into the fashion world which more people are probably able to closely relate to. Aside from that, I feel like this is a tough read, it still isn’t as interesting as it is informative which is something that could have been done better about the article.

Lastly, I do like the visual aspect of the article. It shows the relaxation on dress codes of senators as generations change. Also, the initial questions that I had about the article were answered with the visuals at the end because I was able to see for myself that not long ago Senator John Fetterman was seen out wearing an oversized Carhartt hoodie along with gym shorts and sneakers.

The 1972 USA Olympic Basketball Team continues to refuse Silver Medal amidst
Being Robbed of the Gold 50 years ago In Munich.

Many would consider the 1972 Olympic basketball game to be the greatest
injustice in Olympic history. The match for the gold took place just about 30
years after the United States’ WW2 victory, a lot of bad blood still filled the
air between the USA and the Soviet Union in which the animosity spilled over in
this controversial game.

 “Those medals are going to be in Lausanne, Switzerland, for a thousand
years from now,” stated a former player for the 1972 USA Olympic Team. Why is
that though? What could have gone so wrong that the team still refuses to
accept its loss to the Soviets and collect their medals even 50 years
later? 

The Washington Post reported that despite everything going on at the time,
the game wasn’t expected to cause any drama. Days before the game Palestinian
militants executed 11 athletes and coaches at the Munich Olympic Village. They
also reported that Avery Brundage, International Olympic Committee president,
stated that the games must go on despite uncertainty by Team USA members. 

A win over Italy in the semi-final game gave Team USA their 63^rd
consecutive win, setting them up to face the Soviets in the final for the gold
medal.

The final 6 seconds of the US-Soviet game were what made this whole
controversy. Sports Illustrated reported that Doug Collins of Team USA was
fouled hard, nearly unconscious. Down 48-49, Collins sank two free throws to
give Team USA the lead at 50-49 with just 3 seconds on the clock.

Sports Illustrated reported that an illegal timeout was taken by the Soviets
who ran on the court and demanded it from the refs. Following a missed violation,
the Soviets would get the ball and run the time out.

The game should have been over, but the refs gave the Soviets another chance
after making invalid excuses for them. Another play was made, but it was
suggested that there was a clock malfunction, so the Soviets were given yet
another chance to win. With 3 seconds remaining on the clock, the Soviets ended
up cashing in on their third chance and won the game, robbing Team USA of a gold
medal.

After protesting the outcome of the game, Team USA was outvoted 3-2 by other
communist nations in Hungary, Poland, and Cuba which was reported by the
Washington Post.

“The Americans have to learn how to lose, even when they think they are
right,” FIBA chief, Jones, stated to The Washington Post. Team USA was left
with an all or nothing acceptance for their silver medals meaning that the
whole team would have to accept them, or no one would receive anything.

After fifty years, the team still stands on their beliefs about the game
despite multiple opportunities to put it behind them and accept their medals.
As time continues to go on players on the team like Tom McMillen still hold
fears that the significance of the story is slowly being eroded by time. A
wrong never to be righted will very much soon be forgotten.

“It’s unfortunate because that’s exactly what the I.O.C. wants. Our medals
sit in Lausanne, and there are going to be fewer of us around for the 60^th
anniversary. History fades into the ether,” McMillen says via New York Times.

Many of the players from Team USA remain bitter about the situation to this
day, but some have taken something positive out of the ordeal. “You know what those
Olympics did? They made me grow up. They opened my eyes,” Collins went on in an
interview years following the 1972 Olympics.

Others from the team are still having a rough time getting over being
cheated by the Soviets in the gold medal game. Jim Brewer, power forward for Team
USA, was violently injured by a Soviet player during the game and was unable to
return to the second half. Brewer expressed, “That night was the end of the
world for me. It never goes away. A lie is persistent. I was bitter for a long,
long time.”

Even Brewer, who was injured during the game and arguably feels the most
emotional attachment to the 1972 Olympics out of all his former teammates, was
able to let go of some of the resentment that he had from that game. “I came
upon some pictures of the guys on that team, and some letters from that time, I
just started crying…I finally let it go that day,” the former power forward
expressed emotionally.

The members of the 1972 Team USA still have a soft spot in their hearts for what went down that year, but all in all the players were all able to move on from the situation of some sort. To this day Team USA still won’t accept their silver medals, though. That’s something that they will never be able to sit well with.

 

https://vault.si.com/vault/1992/06/15/robbed-of-gold-medals-in-munich-the-72-us-olympic-basketball-team-will-not-betray-its-principles-for-a-few-pieces-of-silver

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/09/sports/olympics/usa-soviet-union-olympics-basketball.html

https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/olympics/2022/09/08/us-ussr-basketball-1972-munich-olympics/

Replacing Nick Chubb won’t be easy, but the Browns ‘have to keep it pushing’

This article is mainly just about how in last nights MNF game Nick Chubb, Cleveland Browns running back, went out with a gruesome knee injury. Chubb will likely be out for the rest of the season which is a big hit for the Browns considering that Chubb is a top 5 running back in the NFL no question. They went on to explain the game and Chubb’s importance to the team being that Chubb is irreplaceable.

In my opinion the lead isn’t really captivating, but the article does a good job of being informational enough to keep one’s interest. For anyone who is interested in football and keeps up with the NFL I think this is an easy read in terms of making the reader want to read until the end. I think the article does a good job of keeping the emotional factor of a man being injured and having to miss an entire season after only the second game, while also being informative enough for you to understand the severity of the situation along with Chubb’s impact on the team. I would definitely say this article is considered news due to the timeliness, human interest, and impact factors that it provides given that it happened last night and that this is something the whole football community can feel.

Overall, I think this is a pretty spot on article because it doesn’t just highlight one person, it highlights him for the most part, as well as how his fellow teammates and the organization have handled the injury and what position the team is in going forward.

Today, I went on a little scavenger hunt to find two gentlemen who would be willing to have some short conversations with me.

The first person I ran into is Cheyenne Domley. Cheyenne’s original reaction to me was a bit caught off-guard, but given that he wasn’t in a rush to go anywhere he was more than open to talking with me and having me ask a few questions. Cheyenne attends Morningside University as a student and majors in public accounting. Being that in my head accounting majors dress pretty clean, I was surprised to hear what his major was given that he was wearing a red t-shirt and jeans. “Have you seen the newest Conjuring, the Red Door one,” Domley questioned me as I suggested he shoot me some movie recommendations. Personally, I’m not a big scary movie guy, but he seemed genuine and enthusiastic about it so I’ll take his word for it and check it out soon! Overall, Cheyenne was a pretty cool guy based off of the couple minutes we spent talking.

The next person I came across on my scavenger hunt was Justin! His initial reaction was very welcoming, I couldn’t sense that he was any sorts of nervous at all he seemed really calm. Honestly, I knew that he would be a cool laid back guy just based off of what he was wearing. Justin had on a skateboard hat, a fox t-shirt, khaki shorts, and low top skateboard shoes (vans). Since Justin is a sophomore student at Morningside from San Diego, I went on to ask him how he likes it being in the midwest. “It’s a lot more green out here, a lot more vegetation being that San Diego is the desert. Also, snow is interesting. Being out here is the first time I’ve ever really encountered snow.” I think he may have just been being nice because coming from California weather to the midwest would not be interesting to me at all! Justin all says that the people he’s met out here are great and that midwesterners have pretty good hospitality. Lastly, I also asked Justin for a movie recommendation letting him know that I’m into psychological thriller type movies. Justin suggested me to watch the newest Joker movie. He also recommended me to watch Tucker & Dale vs. Evil if I wanted to watch a comedy.

All in all, I had a pleasant experience talking to both of the gentlemen that I bumped into but Justin gave me the more comfortable feel because of his natural ability to be conversational have an overall welcoming vibe about him.

East Dakota as well as surrounding metro areas have ordered for the ban of hand-held radar guns.

Just yesterday, the East Dakota Highway patrol ordered a ban of hand-held radar guns over concerns that troopers may develop cancer due to the exposure of radiation from these radar gun devices. This ban also effects part of the Sioux City, Iowa area.

Something like this has never come about within the state police agency. The ban began to be the topic of discussion following 3 municipal officers filing workman’s compensation and claiming that the radar devices caused cancer.

If the ban were to go into effect, over 70 radar guns would need to be withdrawn from service as of immediately. The ban wouldn’t slow down much as troopers could still use the radar transmitters that are on the outside of the cruisers.

As of now, the whole situation is still something that is being taken into consideration. “The feeling is to err on the side of caution until more is known about the issue,” Adam Smith, spokesperson for the highway patrol, announced.

“How the Pennsylvania Fugitive Scaled a Prison Wall and Escaped”

First of all, I want to say that what this man did is pretty impressive given the fact that he just scaled up a wall in order to escape from a prison. Here, I don’t believe the lead to be too captivating but for some who may want to know more it does a good job at getting straight to the point.

I don’t believe that this article is newsworthy in my opinion. I think this is just something that is interesting and it’s outside the box of from traditional news stories that people who may be regulars are used to. It’s good to switch things up, especially given today’s media world and the fact that news outlets have to be more entertaining now in order to keep people coming.

This article is definitely more informative than it is news. I think for us way in Iowa this isn’t really considered news, but in Pennsylvania where the proximity is close enough to cause some fear, the situation should be considered news. Especially, given that the fugitive is still at large after over a week of escaping the prison.