New York Times, Wednesday, October 21, 2009

In today’s paper one article that I thought was particularly interesting what the article on the reporter who sat in on the most executions ever. I thought that it was interesting because it is out of the ordinary for profiles to profile someone with such an interesting and different reporting beat. It was interesting to see a very different type of journalist then the status quo. Most would think it was odd and almost disturbing for someone to attend over 300 executions but Michael Graczyk just sees it as his job, and that makes it all the more interesting. He is very dry and unemotional when he talks about the actual execution, which does not surprise me at all because of how many he has been through and that he cannot get attached to anyone or his or her case.
Another article that surprised me was the one dealing with the car owners purchasing new cars within the same brand they already own or purchasing a different brand all together. The statistics that it presented were not what I expected in the economy. 20 percent of car shoppers stayed with the same company while back in the 1980’s four out of five stayed with the same company. I wondered if this had anything to do with the government money given through “cash for clunkers” this summer.