Response to Kaylee's music class discussion

I never really thought about the fact that music will have to demassify because of the online piracy but know that Kaylee mentioned it, I realized it will. With all of the laws about copyrights and the restrictions no how you can listen to music online you realize that music will demassify sometime because of those aspects and many others.

Reponse to Ginny's conglomeration class discussion

I agree, conglomeration is fine because of the laws that are set in place, however too much of it could be bad not only because of job loss but also because there is less diversity of content. Which means eventually all content will be the same and who is going to pay to see the same thing over and over again, after awhile people will get bored then demassification happens and it all becomes one big mess which leads back to alot of conglomeration. A little bit is okay but too much could be bad.

Recordings

Recordings was an important disscussion because it gave me background information about what it was like before we could record music from our house and when music traveled to different towns the music would change to fit the towns culture, language, and religious beliefs. Also now that there is recoedings it is cheap to record and distribute and there are thousands of genres and nitches, before you could only listen to what your town listened to.

Magazines

I thought this was an important disscussion because this was the first time photojournalism was featured and could take up most of the page, National Geographic was the first to use this. Plus it was the first to have investigative reporting because there was more space for stories in a magazine then a newspaper

Yellow Journalism

This class disscussion was important because during the time of yellow journalism newspapers were starting to become something everyone could afford  of the penny papers. Also newspaper corporations realized that "muckracking" sold newspapers. Muckracking is scraping through someone's personal buisness to get stories.

Conglomeration

I thought this was an interesting topic to disscuss because I had no idea that so many companies were bought by other companies. I thought the chart was very helpful because everytime i think of conglomeration I picture the chart in my head, which will be very helpful for the test.

Media Critque

 

           "Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair's daughter held at gunpoint" was one of CNN's top world stories on Friday September 20, 2013. This story has absolutely no newsworthiness and is completely irrelevant to the rest of the world. First of all this happened in London, England, secondly it was an attempted robbery, thirdly there is no way a wide audience was affected by this, and lastly " no one was hurt and nothing was stolen" according to Rachel Grant a Blair spokeswoman; therefore having absolutely no newsworthiness as stated before because in order to have newsworthiness a story has to have a direct and lasting impact on a wide audience according to the newsworthiness  yardstick of journalism quality. If anything this should be a human interest piece, not a top world story. Plus Nick Thompson the CNN reporter that covered this story didn't know any major details like why the robbery happened or why the robber singled out the daughter. He basically published an unfinished story that not only gives incomplete information but also has the reader questioning the truthfulness to the story because the story didn't back up any of the information they found. The problem could be improved by having all the information before publishing it as a story; for instance why does this concern the world, not just the Blair family and anyone else who was directly involved or why it happened.