...The San Joaquin River is the backbone of the San Joaquin Valley. The San Joaquin was not only the nation's more agricultural area, but it is also one of the best in the country. Once it was a magnificent 350 miles long, it is one of the nation's ten most endangered rivers. The river once flowed with enough water to support steam ships and a salmon migration it now goes completely dry.The article, River Plan Too Fishy for my Taste Buds by Bill McEwen was chosen to represent facts on the San Joaquin River plan. Bill McEwen wrote the article, after doing a background on him the audience can take into consideration that because of his 35 year career as a veteran journalist and his giant leap from newspapers to politics. These facts illustrate to...
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...Will the San Joaquin River Restoration Project persists of improving or deteriorating California’s drought? “River Plan Too Fishy for my Taste Buds” explains how the project will not help at all, something fishy must remain a secret. Bill McEwen publishes this article in The Fresno Bee, located in Fresno, because he believes the project subsists unhelpful. Fresno transpires as one of the fastest growing population county, and they accustomed to obtaining high temperatures. McEwen, a journalist, acquired a position in The Fresno Bee for 35 years. in addition, he dedicated four decades of all his knowledge to his community. McEwen, 1972 Fresno High graduate, attended Fresno State and majored in Journalism. I believe the San Joaquin River...
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...Will the San Joaquin River Restoration Project persists of improving or deteriorating California’s drought? “River Plan Too Fishy for my Taste Buds” explains how the project will not help at all, something fishy must remain a secret. Bill McEwen publishes this article in the Fresno Bee, located in Fresno, because he believes the project subsists unhelpful. Fresno transpires as one of the fastest growing population county, and they accustomed to obtaining high temperatures. McEwen, a journalist, acquired a position in The Fresno Bee for 35 years. in addition, he dedicated four decades of all his knowledge to his community. McEwen, 1972 Fresno High graduate, attended Fresno State and majored in Journalism. I believe the San Joaquin River Restoration...
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...I’m going to be talking about the River Plan Too Fishy for my Taste Buds. The author’s name is Bill McEwen. I choose this article because McEwen is right about the River Plan is right. Daniel Weintraub is not right and what he is doing about the river plan is not right. I am not against McEwen essay. I believe that SJRP is a waste of money especially $400. Several experts and famous institution says it’s success is impossible. Numerous studies prove this project will fail. Many farmers and people will be affected by the loss of all the water for the project. Farms are trying to make everything work so it won’t affect them but there is not much they can do. Not only are farmers trying to save the water but working people are helping...
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...san joaquin river restoration project is a project trying to restore the once energetic river where families went to go swim and fish. They need biology scientists and many other tools and time to do this restoration to the point where there's many people against the idea. The debate of the two articles between River Plan To Fishy for my Taste Buds by Bill McEwen In Fresno Bee and River Restoration Project Offers a sprinkling of Hope by Daniel Weintraub in sacramento bee. McEwen basically states that its a waste of time, and money while Weintraub says the River restoration is a good project to revive the once thriving river. Bill McEwen has worked for the fresno bee for 35 years with a reputation of an outstanding working person. Daniel Weintraub sacramento Bee for 15 years , a blogger , and a reporter and also writes for three popular newspapers like La times, sacramento bee, and Orange Country and even works on CNN. While McEwen can't be trusted Weintraub can. I agree with Weintraub and I think that the river restoration project should be passed and started. I believe that the San Joaquin River project was worth the 400 million...
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...Within the article, “River Plan: Too Fishy for my Taste Buds”, its author Bill McEwen writes about the plan to restore the San Joaquin River, and about the details that seem to create more negative effects than positive effects. This author appears to be more credible, as he gives a wider view of the situation than merely who approves of the idea. He gives details of how the restoration idea would ruin what little river remains, and become a drowning waste of money. McEwen worked with the Fresno Bee for over 35 years, writing multiple articles and having a heavy understanding of politics that other writers do not. The Fresno Bee pulls in an average of 264,603 daily readers, and publishing occurs in the California city of Fresno. Fresno itself...
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...Joaquin river is one of the most famous and longest river in all of Central California. The river starts in Nevada and goes through a big agricultural farm, then all the way to the Pacific Ocean, San Francisco, and Suisun Bay. In the 20th century the river came to a major halt, it was voted to have a delta built which caused an uproar in the wildlife community.Since the river is closed off from flowing the water is just sitting there, and all wildlife that took place there had to pack their things and move to a new location. The article “ River To Fishy For My Taste Buds by Bill McEwen” of the Fresno Bee’s newspaper company, whose credibility for this topic is real. McEwen despite the fact that he is in the river being built, but against...
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...I concur with Bill McEwen’s article “ River Plan Too Fishy for my Taste Buds” on the San Joaquin River Restoration Program. The San Joaquin River Restoration Program (SJRRP) planned on restoring the water flow to San Joaquin River from Friant Dam and its convergence with the Merced River, and revitalize the Chinook Salmon. McEwen has a much more superior expertise due to his 35 year career at Fresno Bee. He has become one of the papers biggest illustrious personalities as a sports and news columnist and opinion page editor.With an extremely further experience in the journaling world, it has won him an award-winning in reporting and he has a deep understanding of Fresno politics. His article was published in the Fresno Bee, located in Fresno,...
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...In class we read two articles about the San Joaquin River Restoration Project , a project that will cost the federal and state governments millions if not billions of dollars to complete and to put salmon back into the river.One written by Bill McEwen in the Fresno Bee Newspaper called “River Plan Too Fishy for my Taste Buds” caught my attention the most. The way that the author brought up every aspect to go against it and had strong enough evidence to support his reasoning on the restoration being a waste of money because studies show that it will be unsuccessful (logos), as well as having many farmers and people losing water for this project (pathos)and since institution say that success is impossible( ethos) it’s most likely a be a mistake...
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...The San Joaquin river, one of the most famous and longest river in all of Central California. The river starts in Nevada and goes through a big agricultural farm, then all the way to the Pacific Ocean, San Francisco, and Suisun Bay. In the 20th century the river came to a major halt the people voted to have the delta built, which caused an uproar in the wildlife community.Since the river has been closed off from flowing, the waters just sitting there and all wildlife that took place there packed their things and moved to a new location. The article “ River To Fishy For My Taste Buds by Bill McEwen” of the Fresno Bee's newspaper company, whose credibility for the topic occurs as credible. McEwen despite the fact that he agrees in the river to...
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...The name of the topic is “River Rights”.The name of the article I have chosen is “River Plan Too Fishy for my Taste Buds”.The author I have chosen is Bill McEwen.The reason I have choosen this article is because the author uses political and economic facts to support his opinion,which is very convincing.Bill McEwen is a 35 year veteran journalist and the opinion page editor of the Fresno Bee,which makes me believe that McEwen is the proven/better expert.The article was published in the Fresno Bee in Fresno,California.The Fresno Bee is run by The McClatchy Company and serves its news to over 500,000 people.I do not agree with the river project because I believe its a waste of money.The U.S. still has its Alaska salmon source. I am against the...
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...spend the money for the San Joaquin Restoration Project. Bill McEwen’s article, River Plan Too Fishy for my Taste Buds, clearly states his opinion on the controversial topic of the San Joaquin Restoration Project. The newspaper, Fresno Bee, published this article on March 26 in 2009 in Fresno, California when congress officially approved of the San Joaquin project. Due to the fact that farms surround Fresno, the people who live there consist mostly of farmers, and the majority of them do not agree with the river project. Bill McEwen, a local Fresno, proves as a credible source because he worked as a writer at The Fresno Bee for 35 years. I believe the river restoration project might head towards a disadvantageous direction...
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...should not spend the money for the San Joaquin Restoration Project. Bill McEwen’s article, River Plan Too Fishy for my Taste Buds, clearly states his opinion on the controversial topic of the San Joaquin Restoration Project. The newspaper, Fresno Bee, published this article on March 26 of 2009 in Fresno, California when congress officially approved of the San Joaquin project. Due to the fact that farms surround Fresno, the people who live there consist mostly of farmers, and they do not agree with the river project. Bill McEwen, a local Fresno, proves as a credible source because he worked as a writer at The Fresno Bee for 35 years. I believe the river restoration project might head towards disadvantageous direction because, as stated...
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...The San Joaquin River Project. I choose the, River Too Fishy for My Taste Buds because it perfectly explains why we should not have a river. I believe that Bill McEwen proves him the better expert because he explains how in the future we could have problems and how farmers need to learn how to compromise. River Plan Too Fishy for my Taste Buds was published in Fresno Bee, March 26, 2009. It talks about how the river will have problems in the future and how it’s possible for it to dry up and kill all the salmon so not only is it a waste of time but also of money. I believe that the SJRP is a waste of money especially $400. Several experts and famous institutions say it’s success, it’s impossible. Numerous studies prove this project will fail...
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...In the spring of 2009, the people of Fresno disagreed on whether they should restore the San Joaquin River in hopes of bringing back the Chinook salmon or not. Fresno is the fifth largest city in California and the San Joaquin river passes through the northern part of Fresno. There are some pros that come along with restoring the river, like increasing the population of the Chinook salmon, but the cons outweigh the pros. The Fresno Bee is a news source for the 510,000 people that live in Fresno and during March of 2009, they published Bill McEwen’s article, “River Plan Too Fishy for my Tastebuds”. McEwen’s intention in writing the article was to inform the people of Fresno that people need to appear as more relevant than the salmon, and they...
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