Once again I'm going to talk about WDRB and what they decide to show on their 30 minute show. On October 28, 2015, six days away from election day, they talk about how a chocolate store opens its third store in Kentucky. They also talk about the Breeder's cup and how they are being hosted by Keenland this year. Out of 16 stories, seven of those were in the business category, almost half of the stories. Politics and government, well they have two.
When you look at all of the data of the WDRB stories, business isn't even the largest section with only a 18%, social issues is with a 28%, with crime on it's tail with a 22%. Yet on this day those are the lowest. Thanks for the change up in your show, WDRB, but could you try to do a little of everything instead of one specific topic plus a little extras?
Data on WDRB: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Cr2xQpga_XZUQOto0VwACwpZvFOu4amRY0_Qy2qPBaI/edit#gid=0
Friday, October 30, 2015
T.V.
In 1936, their was only 200 t.v.'s worldwide. Today 97% of the world have at least one tv, that number is larger than the number of people with indoor plumbing. Priority's people, priority's. Before I found the love of my life, Netflix, I would be one of those people who would watch an average of 7 hours of tv a day. Honestly i'd be the person who watches it much longer than that.
T.v.'s, like movies and just about every other source of journalism, went through a stage where nobody had one and then a huge boom, tv's boom went from 200 WW, to 1 million WW and it only took it eight years to do so. I think that's pretty fast, but honestly I don't blame people to want a source of entertainment that they can watch, and at their own home too. I mean hello lazy people rule the world practically and tv is one of those reasons why that is mostly true. The other part is ruled by politicians, but who cares about that when instead we can watch tv? I mean tv can relax us and tell us whats happening around the world at the same time and all we have to do is push a button. Sounds good to me.
T.v.'s, like movies and just about every other source of journalism, went through a stage where nobody had one and then a huge boom, tv's boom went from 200 WW, to 1 million WW and it only took it eight years to do so. I think that's pretty fast, but honestly I don't blame people to want a source of entertainment that they can watch, and at their own home too. I mean hello lazy people rule the world practically and tv is one of those reasons why that is mostly true. The other part is ruled by politicians, but who cares about that when instead we can watch tv? I mean tv can relax us and tell us whats happening around the world at the same time and all we have to do is push a button. Sounds good to me.
I Agree
On Thomas's blog, The Simmons File, I agree when he talks about how the story about a stolen pair of Air Jordan's were stolen is not newsworthy. The theft does not affect anyone but a few people, nor does it matter to people other than making them remember that their things can be stolen at anytime.
Now, if you look at WDRB now, the past, and most likely in the future too, they are very good at telling you all about thefts, and crime in general. This story is just another example on how WDRB takes local stories so far they aren't newsworthy, much less actually interesting, and that the only thing that their stories actually do is tell you where not to live, or to always be nervous. These things help nobody, so why keep doing it?
Link to The Simmons File story: http://simmonsfile.blogspot.com/2015/10/air-jordans-critique.html?m=1
Now, if you look at WDRB now, the past, and most likely in the future too, they are very good at telling you all about thefts, and crime in general. This story is just another example on how WDRB takes local stories so far they aren't newsworthy, much less actually interesting, and that the only thing that their stories actually do is tell you where not to live, or to always be nervous. These things help nobody, so why keep doing it?
Link to The Simmons File story: http://simmonsfile.blogspot.com/2015/10/air-jordans-critique.html?m=1
WDRB News
If you ever decide to watch WDRB I hope you want to know everything local, specifically in the crime, accidents, and disaster area. In a 20-day study of this news station they had a total of 135 stories, 108 local stories, 22 national stories, and 5 international stories. Yes, this is in the middle of a nation wide election and yes this is when we have a refugee problem happening internationally, but instead of focusing on these things they tell us about shootings and thefts. No disrespect to those who were victims, I'm very sorry that happened to you, but WDRB could at least take one minute out of their 30 minute show to talk about it, or take time out of the weather its not like its very accurate in the beginning.
Wednesday, October 28, 2015
Terms
Last week we learned about terms of t.v. news and the newspaper. While the t.v. has terms that seem mostly self explanatory (i.e. stand-up: reporter is on site introducing the package- live!) and looks easy on paper, when you have to figure out which is which on a test, and all it gives you is the script, it makes it considerably harder.
With the newspaper terms its also pretty self explanatory (i.e. Byline: Who wrote it) and does look easy in your notes, but their is also more words to remember, but i think this is what makes it easier to figure it out. For t.v. their is only ten terms you need to know, with the newspaper their's 12. Yes, the difference is only two but the more words their is the less each term means, which can help you narrow it down when trying to figure out what it means; instead of having less words, with broder topics that you might get mixed up on.
With the newspaper terms its also pretty self explanatory (i.e. Byline: Who wrote it) and does look easy in your notes, but their is also more words to remember, but i think this is what makes it easier to figure it out. For t.v. their is only ten terms you need to know, with the newspaper their's 12. Yes, the difference is only two but the more words their is the less each term means, which can help you narrow it down when trying to figure out what it means; instead of having less words, with broder topics that you might get mixed up on.
Movies
The lecture we did on movies is one of my favorite ones so far. While everyone knows how movies have come so far, from silent, to with sound, color, and now 3D, its no surprise its was a huge hit when it first came out and still now. Though I think that even though movies have advanced so much over the years with technology, the most interesting parts was the face that movie theaters would sell 90 million tickets per week in 1946. That's around 360 million tickets in one month. But even with movies always improving, so was other technology, which introduced the television.
With t.v. around, by 1955 movie sales were already down to 46 million TPW, that's already half of its sales in nine years, and today, its been halved again to 23 million TPW. I think that this is crazy, movies is my favorite invention- besides Netflix. With movies you can watch an entire stories, characters, plots, worlds evolve right in front of your eyes in a matter of a couple of hours. With movie theaters you don't have interruptions from commercials, or outside forces, you can sit down watch this amazing story happen then go back to your lives, or watch it again.
I believe movies are like newspapers, they're a time piece that might get smaller over the years, but they simply will never go away, they are just to important to our society.
With t.v. around, by 1955 movie sales were already down to 46 million TPW, that's already half of its sales in nine years, and today, its been halved again to 23 million TPW. I think that this is crazy, movies is my favorite invention- besides Netflix. With movies you can watch an entire stories, characters, plots, worlds evolve right in front of your eyes in a matter of a couple of hours. With movie theaters you don't have interruptions from commercials, or outside forces, you can sit down watch this amazing story happen then go back to your lives, or watch it again.
I believe movies are like newspapers, they're a time piece that might get smaller over the years, but they simply will never go away, they are just to important to our society.
WDRB News
In class we are assigned different tv news sources or the Courier-Journal to judge on what they talk about during their airtime. The first time I watched it- 9/27/15- gave me a real insight on what to expect in future showings of WDRB. For this episode their was 14 stories and seven of them were just on accidents, disasters, and crime. Out of the nine stories that were online, four of them were in those three category's also. While watching WDRB they did have two politics and government stories thankfully, with the 2016 election coming around and all, but only one online.
Since the second part of this assignment is to share the data and gather other data from other news stations, I was happy to realize that we had the second highest new stories all added up, second from Courier-Journal. This information gave me some hope on an interesting expirence of waching the news- something I would never do without it being a grade- but was very disappointed. When those earlier mentioned topics- accidents, disasters, crime- were all they ever talk about and those three government and politic stories were practically the only ones they did on the subject, i quickly realized that this is going to be a long and boring project.
Since the second part of this assignment is to share the data and gather other data from other news stations, I was happy to realize that we had the second highest new stories all added up, second from Courier-Journal. This information gave me some hope on an interesting expirence of waching the news- something I would never do without it being a grade- but was very disappointed. When those earlier mentioned topics- accidents, disasters, crime- were all they ever talk about and those three government and politic stories were practically the only ones they did on the subject, i quickly realized that this is going to be a long and boring project.
Thursday, September 17, 2015
Media Critique
On the WLKY website, in the news section, there is a story titled "Local T-shirt company pulls merchandise with expletive anti-police message." The article is about how Cafe Press pulls an anti-police t-shirts because of how they might be put into the law-enforcement fiasco and how they might be perceived. This article breaks some of the seven yardsticks like, newsworthiness and fairness.
This breaks the newsworthiness yardstick because to be newsworthy it has to affect you six months or longer, and when a website not many people even know of, cancels a shirt its not something someone remembers for very long, especially when there is more important things going on with the same topic and others. As they explain the story in either the video or written form it neglects to show how its allowed in the news section. It might be talked about some, but it doesn't show promise to actually matter in the future, because most likely something else will take their place in a week to a month on the same topic, law-enforcement.
The other seven yardstick they break is fairness. The fairness yardstick is about getting more then one side of the story, or at least one of the main participant to the story, the police. You would think that with an article on anti-police merchandise, they would try to see how the police feel and think about it. Instead they only interview Cafe Press, and the citizens, not the police officers, the ones they are talking about.
This breaks the newsworthiness yardstick because to be newsworthy it has to affect you six months or longer, and when a website not many people even know of, cancels a shirt its not something someone remembers for very long, especially when there is more important things going on with the same topic and others. As they explain the story in either the video or written form it neglects to show how its allowed in the news section. It might be talked about some, but it doesn't show promise to actually matter in the future, because most likely something else will take their place in a week to a month on the same topic, law-enforcement.
The other seven yardstick they break is fairness. The fairness yardstick is about getting more then one side of the story, or at least one of the main participant to the story, the police. You would think that with an article on anti-police merchandise, they would try to see how the police feel and think about it. Instead they only interview Cafe Press, and the citizens, not the police officers, the ones they are talking about.
Mass media
Another really good post is from Ali. She gives us another view of what mass media is and explained each part of the 5 part process -stimulus,encoding,transmission,decoding,internalization and feedback loop). She also puts in her input on how she sees the process of mass media. Thanks Ali for that insight, it gave me a quick review on mass media, filters, and impediments.
Here's a link to her page: http://alisinfoblog.blogspot.com
Here's a link to her page: http://alisinfoblog.blogspot.com
The hot and cold info
For those of you who are reading this and are interested in hot and cold medians, you should check out Sydney Tucker's page. She gives a good understandable definition of the binary model, while giving a relate able example. She gives us a insight on how she shes it and how she uses it in a everyday bases, while keeping her Sydney personality.
Here's a link: http://savingthecomments.blogspot.com/
The Glossy Cover
Magazines. They're like a newspaper, but bigger and glossier. They're like books, but much smaller. Magazines are a monthly thing, which gives them many advantages. One would be the investigative journalism, this aspect gives them longer to compose an story and get enough facts to make it longer and a causally even more informational.
Another thing magazines do is photo journalism. Magazines are practically the creators of that, they were the first ones to use photography as a way to show people whats happening, its also an easier way for people to get news without having to read about it instead. This went along with the times, people being alliterate, but seriously people you need to read more.
Wednesday, September 16, 2015
It's all about the money
In today's culture just about everything is about money. If you have money, then anything is possible. If you don't, well your out of luck. Sorry.
Any type of communications is a good example of this: television, newspapers, magazines, or books. These type of mass communications all get there money in some way that goes along with their theme. Like an author would get their money from circulation, people buying their books. Television makes money many different ways. One of the most famous is probably from advertising. You know when they shorten the show just to throw in a commercial every five minutes? Ya, that's them. They can also get money by government funding/grants like PBS
Magazines, newspapers, and radios would earn money these ways also.They might also go into sponsorship, just mentioning the company that gave them money. Another option they could go with is audience donations, where you give money to their already rich company, but hey, everyone wants more money right? Sometimes t.v. shows might do an donation shows, which we would call a philanthropic donation, where you give them donations in either "here's a few dollars" or "here i'm rich so i'll just give you a check."
Any type of communications is a good example of this: television, newspapers, magazines, or books. These type of mass communications all get there money in some way that goes along with their theme. Like an author would get their money from circulation, people buying their books. Television makes money many different ways. One of the most famous is probably from advertising. You know when they shorten the show just to throw in a commercial every five minutes? Ya, that's them. They can also get money by government funding/grants like PBS
Magazines, newspapers, and radios would earn money these ways also.They might also go into sponsorship, just mentioning the company that gave them money. Another option they could go with is audience donations, where you give money to their already rich company, but hey, everyone wants more money right? Sometimes t.v. shows might do an donation shows, which we would call a philanthropic donation, where you give them donations in either "here's a few dollars" or "here i'm rich so i'll just give you a check."
Monday, September 14, 2015
The Newspaper Life
Later that week we had another lecture concerning newspaper and how they have been used over the years, what for, and how they went from monthly to weekly to daily. We also talked about how John Peter Zenger made it able for the first amendment- freedom of speech; freedom of the press. Which is pretty much saying people can say what ever they like and if you don't like it too bad. Nowadays, newspapers get little attention since people now get their news off something technology related, but no matter what they will always have advantages over technology, and the main one being the simplest, its cheaper.
Newspapers are also share able, which everyone can like seemingly how phones or tvs are expensive as it is, and you don't just give your phone to someone and be like " Hey, you should read this article I found on my phone! Here, go ahead and read it now and tell me what you think later, m'k?" And if you do, are you rich? because I'm surely not and not many people are, plus newspapers are portable so its not like if you get one you're reduced to one place like a desktop or tv. They also have this amazing thing called news and facts, where they tell you newsworthy things and explain it properly - breath and depth- and if you want entertainment that bad then you can skip to that section and let the rest do the same.
Newspapers are also share able, which everyone can like seemingly how phones or tvs are expensive as it is, and you don't just give your phone to someone and be like " Hey, you should read this article I found on my phone! Here, go ahead and read it now and tell me what you think later, m'k?" And if you do, are you rich? because I'm surely not and not many people are, plus newspapers are portable so its not like if you get one you're reduced to one place like a desktop or tv. They also have this amazing thing called news and facts, where they tell you newsworthy things and explain it properly - breath and depth- and if you want entertainment that bad then you can skip to that section and let the rest do the same.
Books
Around two weeks ago, in Mr.Miller's class, we had an lecture on my favorite topic, books! Now, it wasn't about the first book ever to be made, or how books were invented, we can use common sense for those answers; the main point of the lecture was to talk about a man called Gutenburg, who invented the movable metal printing press. This printing press was made century's before, but with his invention it was much easier to make copies of the same thing, i.e. make more than one copy of a book nor did it have to be handwritten. The invention allowed literacy to spread, along with religions, philosophical, and political thoughts and views, science/technology to be invented, an easier way to teach people on how to do things, like a Dummies book. It also gave us a way to write down history, and maps, which were and still are very important factors to our every day life.
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