Current Events Reporting

1. What's being discussed in this article?
The article starts out by talking about Yang Zhizhu who was fired from his job because he had more than one child. In Beijing it is not uncommon for this to happen because the country tries to control the population and have often time suggested to couples to only have one child. It goes on to talk about how within the country people have started to become more and more discontent on the policy.Within in the country they have a lower birthrate than other countries and also the boy to girl ratio is off because of the lower birthrates. The government there has recently started to apply consequences to those who do decide to have more children.

2. When did the event happen? (Is this breaking news or something that's been analyzed and discussed for a while?)
This is not breaking news because policies like this have been apart of the culture in Bejing but within the last 30 years officials have been telling parents to settle for one child and use various other methods to end other pregnancies. But what is breaking news is the affects that this has had on their society.

3.What questions do you have that would help make this article make more sense to you? What more do you need to learn about to be able to report on this event?
I would want to know what made the country feel that this was an issue. I would also want to know why they would encourage parents to end the pregnancy if it was not their first child. I would also want to know if the policy applies differently to those who had trouble getting pregnant. I would also want to know more about what the birth rate was before they made these changes.

Which news worthy events do you remember from your lifetime?

1.- When the war started I was in 4th grade and we were on our way to Vacation in the Bahamas with my family. Hurricane Katrina. I remember this because my family had been watching the coverage a lot to see what was going on. I also had lots of family who lived in the area and we were keeping in contact with them., When the ipod came out. I remember this because my brother was really into computer stuff and he had been waiting for it to come out and I remember him trying to explain it to me and I just didn't get what was so great about it.

2. -JFK Dying, Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster, When Rock Hudson was Dying and no one knew why, First test tube baby