Radio

When radio came about it was the first live national media and they were able to have a relationship with their audience. They were able to have a relationship with their audience by having the audience call into the radio show. They also gave news as it happened, before radio it was impossible to give news as it happened. Radio transferred to music and talk shows when it demassified. Radio stations played a lot of rock and roll.

The Courier Journal Critique

The Courier Journal did a good job of reporting news and keeping the reader entertained, however I felt that they put themselves in a bad place when they cut back on the Metro section because they took a step closer to being like the TV news stations because now they have less diverse of content like the news stations.

TV News Terminology

This lecture was interesting to me because I learned new definitions that I hadn't known before. In middle school I was given some of these words like "toss" and "remote" with the definitions but this lecture helped me understand the definitions better and expanded my knowledge of TV news terminology

Internet Privacy

When we went over Internet one thing that caught my attention when the lecture was given was the threat to privacy. After the lecture i started paying closer attention to Facebook posts people were sending. I notice that one of my friends updated her status to " going to Virginia during Thanksgiving Break." Then they went on to tell exactly when they were leaving and how long they would be gone. People are so use to giving out information over the internet they don't think about their privacy anymore.

Television

The most interesting thing I learned from the TV lecture was that one of the major impacts was it influenced people's spending habits. It's hard to notice or realize it but the other day I was watching TV with my 6 year old sister and the TV station advertised a barbie house and the first thing she did was call her Nana and asked her to put it on her Christmas list. That's when I realized that it just doesn't affect grown adults but kids as well.

Movies

The most surprising thing I learned about why we still go to the movies is the overwhelming experience, with the big screen. dark theater, and the surround sound speakers. I guess I never gave it much thought since I go so often and since my dad has a home theater in the basement but after learning about movies in class this aspect surprised and interest me the most.

WHAS 11 Media Critique

While watching WHAS I realized that they disregarded the newsworthy yardstick. Most of the stories WHAS covered was crime and local, there was 41 crime and 82 local. For WHAS the lead stories fell into either the government shutdown and local crime, however their other stories also fell into these categories as well. Out of all the other stations WHAS had the least stories, while the other stations were running stories; WHAS ran commercials, weather, and sports segments. In a typical 30 minute show there was 5 minutes of weather, 4 minutes of sports, 11 minutes of commercial, and 10 minutes of actually news. The time spent on reporting sports, weather, and airing commercials could have been dedicated to reporting good newsworthy news segments instead of airing the same weather report over and over again.

Radio Demassification

 I enjoyed the class discussion on radio because I found the demassification aspect surprisingly interesting. When Television came about all the radio talent and shows left radio for television, therefore causing radio to demassify. when radio demassified it focused on talk shows and niche music station. This was interesting to me because before I studied this I thought radio had always been just music and talk shows.