Media-savvy Parkland students on what they've sworn off in wake of shooting

[LiberalArkie]

PARKLAND, Fl. -- When you're on lockdown, like they were at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, teacher Eric Garner says it's a little disconcerting having your students videotape you. "I'm like, I don't know how to feel right now," he said.

I pointed out that's what he taught them. "I know, I know," he replied. "They know what they're doing behind the camera. They know what they're doing in front of the camera and it's impressive."

Eric is the broadcast journalism teacher at Stoneman Douglas and one of the people responsible for making students at the school as media savvy as they are.

In fact, many of the kids you've seen on television over the past two weeks are his reporters. Much of the footage from inside the school came from his photographers.



https://www.cbsnews.com/news/parkland-media-savvy-students-shooting-florida/

[samnsara]

1. pair that with a degree in PoliSci...Foreign Affairs...International Studies....

...unstoppable

[pangaia]

8. And music and art history.

[lapfog_1]

2. Congratulations to Eric Garner

your students do you proud.

When I was in high school I also took a TV journalism class, producing our own High School News program. I was lucky to also be one of 3 students that worked on weekends at the local NBC affiliate as interns... and we got to do our own segments for Sunday local news... my highlight was interviewing Joe DiMaggio.

[Hortensis]

3. Those kids are impressive and this helps explain.

The most impressive thing to me, though, was how they grabbed the moment. They moved immediately, while the nation's cameras were on them for the evening news. I wondered all along who was responsible for that and still do.

[bobbieinok]

4. GOP, esp in FL, moves to BAN all such courses in school as subversive 3....2...

[pangaia]

9. Don't joke...

[bobbieinok]

10. Unfortunately I can easily imagine GOPers coming up with rationale to eliminate such

[OhNo-Really]

5. Amazing. My school had nothing like that. Wow.

[uponit7771]

6. Eric Garner has done a DAMN good job at preparing those students.

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[YOHABLO]

7. Back in the 70s we didn't have 'broadcast journalism' classes. Man em I old.