MCS Final Project

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MCS Final Project

• News Segment Analysis
• Meredith Wise
• October 2009

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News Segment

• Channel One segment, Kid Flicks

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The Lead

• Dont let the stacks of DVDs fool you. Marni
  and Bertie Berna arent your typical movie fans.

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Who?

• Included in the lead of the story Marni and
  Bertie Berna, sisters, ages 15 and 17

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What?

• VO This is the home base for Kid Flicks, a
  non-profit started by Marni and Berni. Mission
  to collect and send DVDs to children in
  hospitals and it all began with a sick friend.

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Why?

• MARNI I had a friend who was sick in Ceasar
  Hospital with leukemia and while she was there
  she watched movies all of the time. So we decided
  to donate movies to the hospital that she had
  been at while she was sick.

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When and Where?

• VO Soon family and friends got involved. Six
  years later Kid Flicks now ships movies to
  childrens hopsitals in all fifty states and
  South Africa.

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How?

• VO Unlike video stores and theaters. Kid Flicks
  brings movies directly to patients, one hundred
  DVDs at a time. Many come from movie studios and
  donations from other young people like Marni and
  Barni.

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Code of Ethics - Fairness

• GOOD - Exercise special care when children are
  involved in a story and give children greater
  privacy protection than adults.
• Sensitive to health care privacy, especially that
  of minors. Did not show any kids sick in
  hospital.

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Code of Ethics - Fairness

• ROOM TO IMPROVE - Present a diversity of
  expressions, opinions, and ideas in context.
• Could have interviewed those receiving DVD
  donations such as a nurse or even a parent of a
  child in the hospital.