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Despite the direct conflict of interest, I covered a story on prevention of underage drinking. The CNY Underage Drinking Summit took place at Drivers Village in Cicero. I printed out the directions to get there and had my friend drive me. We were on 481 N looking for an exit called "E. Circle Drive." Well, that exit was no where to be found for the entire 25 minutes we drove at 95 mph, and my friend and I decided to take the nearest exit out, which was still ten miles away, when we saw the sign that pretty much said we're on our way to Albany and Buffalo now. Eventually we managed to get there before the summit ended, but I had to miss that part of it that I wanted to cover. Fortunately the speaker happily talked with me afterwards one-on-one and I got some pretty good soundbites so I'm satisfied.



One thing that I didn't know about, and didn't put on air either, was that the brain develops from the back to the front. (The back monitors basic biological functions.) It goes from the cerebellum (which monitors balance) to the frontal lobe (which is in charge of logical thinking). So evidently, or so the speaker told me, the reason that kids drink is because they have the urges to get drunk and get high, but don't have the proper brain tool to reason it out and tell them such behavior is risky and stupid.

As for the news cast, I have to thank my entire team for saving my butt. I spent way too much time cutting a soundbite, which leaves me almost no time for anything else. So Lara and Matt helped me revise my story, and Andrew put my story on the cart for me. God bless these wonderful people.

However, something did go wrong with my piece, and it's impossible not to notice it. For my fellow classmates who read this blog, wait till Tuesday and - "LISTEN....... and KNOW."