A. Top Five

     In every reporter's experience there are stories that should be covered but somehow never are. Most of the time, the stories go unreported because there are insufficient resources to dig into them. For a class project, select three to five subjects, on or off campus, that should be but have not been covered. How would you turn the ideas into journalism? Why did you select these stories? Your story ideas should be added to those of the other students, and then the list should be reduced to five stories. You can select one of the five to write, or the whole class can decide on which one has the highest priority and do that one. Write 350 to 500 words.

B. Entrapment

     The tabloid newspaper Globe paid a woman to invite TV sports announcer Frank Gifford to a Manhattan hotel room for a liaison and published photos of him embracing the woman. The tabloid hid a video camera in the room.
     An editor of the rival National Enquirer said: "It's one thing to catch a celebrity cheating and another to induce or entrap them. Without the Globe, there would be no story here. I'm in the tabloid industry, and this is way over the top. It's downright cruel."
     The Globe editorial director replied: "The issue is not what we did; the issue is what Frank Gifford did.... If we did something that someone would consider close to entrapment, I'd say so do the police every day in catching criminals. We caught a moral criminal."
     What do you think of the Globe's journalistic feat?