School administrators nation-wide are attempting to solve the problem of cyber-bullying by their students. In the online article “Taking on the cyber bully: Middletown schools battles social media networks” by Jason Siedzik, a Middletown school administrator outlines the steps the school is taking towards cracking down on this out-of-control craze.
Middletown school administrators, along with actively researching solutions, have teamed up with the local police department to ramp up the resistance against cyber bullying, Justin Carbonella, Youth Services Director, said. The police have been helpful in getting Facebook posts taken down, but the matter still seems to fall into the “parental oversight” department. Carbonella feels the majority of bullying results from parents providing phones and computers with an all-access pass to those social media networking sites.
The headline, “Taking on the cyber bully: Middletown schools battles social media networks”, catches the eye with the use of strong action verbs when scrolling through the Middletown Press newspaper’s website. The want to read this article only increases after reviewing its basic news lead. Even with its two clichés, the reader is left wondering what the school administrators are doing to tackle this issue.
The nut graf, located in the third paragraph, expands on the information found in the lead and introduces the only source in the article with a quote. Quotes are abundant throughout the article and feature only one attribution, Justin Carbonella. Siedzik’s reliance on only one source begs the question of how reliable the information published actually is.
Although Carbonella’s quotations make up most of the article, Siedzik’s use of strong verbs engages and guides the reader through the article. Siedzik facilitates reader comprehension of the story through easy to read sentences and clarity when relaying facts. The inverted pyramid format further assists the reader in obtaining knowledge of Middletown’s active approach toward cyber bullying.
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