Fundamentals of Journalism

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/24/eel-removed-from-mans-bottom_n_1909231.html?ir=World

Well this isn’t something you read about everyday, it’s kind of shocking actually. I find this an interesting article to read even though I can’t really relate to it and it doesn’t really affect me. However, it was fun to read even though I got nothing from it. Just a humorous news article to pass the time. I don’t consider this very news worthy because it doesn’t really provide the readers anything they would need. It’s just for humor and if you can read through the whole article, you find that it starts to get a little boring because so much of the significant parts of news been kept confidential. For example, in the middle of the article it mentioned how the eel was removed, but what I want to know is how it got in the man’s buttocks. Unfortunately, the victim didn’t want to share the information. I respect the writer for respecting the victim’s want of privacy, but if such important information was kept out it wouldn’t make the article as great as it could be, Although, at the end of the article he mentioned about other eel accidents people had in other countries. I think he’d have a better time focusing on writing about the attacks in other countries or like how he mentioned a Chinese man had an eel surgically removed from his bladder because it swam up his genital when he was taking some eel bath or something along those lines.