Response to Wesley

Wesley! I loved your response to the radio lecture. You did a wonderful job explaining terms for people who might not understand what hot and cool mediums mean. Just think about it, if you are reading a really good article and come across a huge word you don't want to  stop and look up the word. You might find a definition that does not make any since. I noticed in some people's blogs, they use these humongous  ( get it, lol, I had to) words to describe their feelings in the fullest detail. After a while if there are to many words I can't understand I have a hard time wanting to finish the story that I am reading. Also, I can't believe the radio is that old either. Great job welsh keep up the good work!
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Media crtitiques

So far in class, we have had two blogging assignments. I remember before the first one we had a deep lecture about media critiques. At first I was nervous and thought I would not do it correctly. He gave us a paper on what a media critique is, not, and things that can not be critiqued. It seemed like so much information, and not to mention we had to refer back to the Seven Yardsticks. The Seven Yardsticks are rules that all journalist have to follow. If not, they are leaving themselves open for a ruthless media critique😉. Anyways, I was so happy that he gave us an example of a critique and places where we could find more examples. I was mostly afraid of accidentally targeting a website that was doing everything right. One thing I wanted to stress to everyone reading this, just because you disagree with what is written in the article doesn't mean it is not following the elements!

Whas11 critique

In journalism class, we have been following certain news stations for an assignment. After totaling the news stories, I noticed how few national and international stories there were. Three people in our group had the task of watching the news, I had to read it online. For the people who watched there were ten national and zero international! Online there were about 20 National and four international. I can understand why there isn't many international stories, but national I don't understand. We are close to election season and the candidates are going all over the country to win votes. Barely any of that shows up in the news. The online section is mostly covered with crime cases. I don't think WHAS11 did a good job at fairness. They should give each topic equal amount of time. I know on TV the show is 30 minutes long, but they can post whatever they want online.

Response to eli

Eli, I loved your intake of the newspaper lecture. During class I would listen and try to analyze all the information given to me. I thought it was really cool how you tied his lecture to your personal life. It gives you something to relate to. I know some people tend to shut down once they hear something they disagree with or something that doesn't interest them. Unless you are a teenager that does read the newspaper, I don't know to many teens that read the newspaper on a daily basis.  Whenever I go over my grandparents house at least one of them is reading the newspaper every second of every day. Your technique is really cool and that will give me something to look forward next time in journalism class. Maybe it will even help me with journalism tests!😂


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Response to Melissa's take on television

Melissa, I agree with you 100% it's like you read my mind. I found the TV lecture to be really boring and repetitive. First it was the newspaper, then the books, next recorded music and now television. They all go through a "golden age" and then hit rock bottom. I know Mr.Miller can't do anything about the past or the how the world works, but I was wondering if anything broke that chain of events. Also television is becoming a waste of time and a procrastinator's go to.People could be doing other things with their time than sitting and watching television. We may remember what we watched  for about a week or so and then it will forgotten. Nowadays people don't watch things that are relevant in their lives. Then again TV doesn't really put real life situations out there. http://pocketsecrets2015.blogspot.com/2015/10/response-to-binary-models-maya-malawi-i.html?m=1

Radio Response Lecture

    Even though the time for the radio has come and gone, it's mark on the world will last quite a while. The radio was the first live medium, which means people could receive something as soon as it was happening. For example, tomorrow is the football game of the season, and you want to be at the game but you don't have a ticket. Instead of waiting on next week's paper, just tune in on your radio and listen to it live. The only delay would be the time it takes the signal to reach the radio. I think radio mostly inspired television. If you think about it, TV is just a radio with a moving picture. Without radio, television might have taken a little longer to invent. So thank you Gugliemo Marconi for inventing the radio!

Life without Television?????

What would life be like without television? I know some people are thinking unbearable, but would it really? Humans are so lazy nowadays and TV plays a big role in that. In an average household, the television is on 7 hours a day. 7 hours!!!!! wow thats a lot. We have become tremendously  lazy! The TV keeps us indoors, stationary, and less sociable. All that time used to sit around we could be exercising. The U.S isn't really known as a healthy nation, and if people turn off the TV's we could get active! Not only does Tv keep you indoors, it also influences your spending habits. How many times have you seen something on TV and bought it at the store? You may not have been looking for that item, but you bought it to find out it doesn't work the way you want it to. People use the TV to influence your opinion. Now that it is close to the presidential election, its going to get hectic!

Review over WHAS11 online

           I have been following WHAS11 for about three weeks now online. One thing that they do consistently is, make sure the title of their articles can be understood. We have been keeping up with news for journalism class and it really helps that I can read the title and not have to search through the entire article. I noticed that the Courier-Journal would have headlines that barely give any information about the article. For example, there was an article called " Not as it seems JCPS?" I can assume the article is about Jefferson County Public Schools, but what about them. After a while of shifting through stories I am going to stop looking and start assuming.WHAS gives clear titles such as "Small Earthquake shakes Shelbyville, surrounding counties; no injury or damage." I can tell from the title that there was an earthquake that shook several counties and there wasn't any fatalities. Hopefully in the future they will do a better job!



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Student Reviews

I Found two students who i thought did a wonderful job on interpreting Mr. Miller's lectures

Keri's Blog: I thought Keri's introduction was composed very well. She tied in a personal experience and it flowed right into it. She also explained certain words that people may not have understood and gave examples. P.S. Love the title! I can't get enough of those BOOKS! Job well done!

Ryan's Blog: Not only did I love Ryan's intro, I could tell he spent a bit of time pondering over the ways of communication. I think he did a great job of telling his opinion and stating facts at the same time. I liked how he took a real life situation as an example to explain how his mind was working. Great Job!

Media Critique

         While i was reading the USA Today News, I found an article that was not newsworthy. It was about two dogs and one got trapped in a concrete wall. The other dog stayed for a whole week and tried to get his friend out. I am an animal lover don't get me wrong, but this is not newsworthy. Newsworthy articles contain information you are going to remember for a long time. I bet by tomorrow half the people would have forgotten the story already. The worst of it all, they had the story in the NEWS column! USA Today even has an entertainment column. The story was also very short, and it was originally a tweet. Information could have been falsified to make people want to read it. To read the article click here.

John Peter Zenger

       At first the newspaper lecture got off to a slow start, and find myself losing the battle with sleep. Then Mr.Miller started explaining the court case of John Peter Zenger.  John had been writing rude but truthful things about the governor  in his town. So he took him to court for libel, which is claiming that someone is writing false things about someone that is hurting their reputation. The governor  admitted that everything John wrote about him was true and the jury found John not guilty. The truth is the ultimate defense against libel.

        I thought this case was very important for the future of journalism. Without this case, freedom of speech would be very limited. News nowadays is about people in charge and journalist wouldn't be able to express how they feel or tell the truth in their articles.  The John Peter Zenger trial will definitely be remembered in the history of journalism!

Magazines

                The magazine lecture was the one I found the most interesting. It kept me engaged the entire class and soaked up the information like a sponge. I thought serialized fiction was the most important innovation of the magazine. Serialized fiction is publishing a chapter at a time in a magazine instead of the whole book. Back in the early years of book writing people were paid by the word. That meant books were long,boring, and no one read them. Serialized fiction brought the aliterate to the world of the literate. Aliterate by the way means people who can read, but they choose not to.
               In 1879 the Postal Act was passed; which led to subsidized magazines. Subsidized means finacial support, and in this case financial support from the government. The government realized that magazines were good for the country and made 1 cents per pound to mail magazines. Subsidized magazines finally gave America a national identity, and literacy rates started to rise.

Binary Models

       I thought the binary models lecture contained the most information. The two main categories are hot and cold medians. A hot median is something that requires your full attention, such as reading a book. A cold median is the exact opposite, for example you can watch tv while cooking dinner or doing homework.
       My favorite part of the lecture was when Mr.Miller explained information/entertainment and how it was becoming infotainment. The informational story/journalist is called elitist. Elitist journalist write to inform the public and not entertain them. The entertainment side is called populist. Populist journalism writes on what the public wants to get money.
      Sometimes large companies will buy smaller companies. That is called conglomeration. In the charts below it will explain the pros and cons of conglomeration for the company and the consumer.

                               Company

          Pros                                 Cons

 Money                                                            Decreased quality 

 Diversified 

 Replacing and promotions

                              Consumer  

      Pros                              Cons

so much pop culture!                         Less diverse content
                                                          Decreased quality

     

                                         

                                 

Printing Press/ GutenBurg lecture

                                      Printing Press

         In the beginning of the lecture  Mr. Miller asked," What do you think is the most important invention to date?" After a period of silence he answered his own question with the printing press. At first i disagreed with him, but my knowledge on the printing press was very limited. By the end of the lecture not only did i understand his point of view, i agreed with it.

        Johannes GutenBurg was not the first to invent the movable printing press, but he was the first one to do it using steel. He didn't realize how much his invention would make on the world only that it would make him a lot of money. Before him the Romans tried using rock and the Chinese tried using wood. 

                                                  

                                                   Life without Printing Press

                   1.  Lower Literacy

                   2.  No free public information

                   3.  No democracy 

                   4. No global culture

                   5.  No global and rapid exploration

                   6.  Smaller middle class/ widespread poverty

                   7.  No standardized language or history

                   8. fewer large scale wars

             The list above is only a small amount of what life without the printing press would be like.  I am unable to think of one thing that can be on this earth now without being effected by the printing press in some way. Mr. Miller did a wonderful job explaining this lecture. I was able to understand it and it kept me interested!