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.

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

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.

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."

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.

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.