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.

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.