electronic journalism

This is all my opinion so if you think I am crazy feel free. I do not agree with news over the internet, no matter what source you are getting it from. I think that, as for this time period, the technology is just not safe enough. There are to many people out there that are way to good at hacking into whatever they want and changing those things. If some of you did not hear China had hackers steel 5,000,000 CLASSIFIED documents from the PENTAGON!!!! Hello red lights are flashing right there. Do no trust everything you see on the internet because for all you know the writer could be a 12 year old typing away. Then you go out and spread all this incorrect information around causing and infected grapevine.

I want to bring up a topic that not many people remember. The time when kids were not in the media because it was a taboo thing to do. At one point in time there was an un-writen rule that made it so kids stayed out of the media. If a child was in a movie it was almost like they did not become famous to keep them protected. They would just keep on acting until they were an adult and then become famous. Now we make children superstars, something that makes me sick to my stomache. You are ruining kids lives because no one can really handle the nova they become when you reach the top. You need more than just a sound mind. If you can not put a kids name in the paper for doing a crime why is it ok to have Hannah Montana on the cover of us weekly for her new LOVE OF HER LIFE. Really? How about those writers go after real people.

Bowling for Columbine

This movie was a waist of the film it was made on. Honestly this fat man makes his living making fun of anyone he interviews. If you have not yet noticed but no matter what your opinion is he will try and fight with you and make you look dumb. Michael Moore has to be my least favorite producer/director out there. He got under my fingernails and pissed me off while watching this movie for the last time. He takes isolated incidents and makes them into one big jumbled problem ball. That is it, and the people who are on camera are just staring blankly into the lens because everyone knows you do not put a child,s murder because of the lack of gun safe and gun control on trial in the same sentence. I really hope that all of you did not think that he did anything with this film. The fat man just needs money for his cheese burger habit.

week 8

I went to the BBC news website and the first thing i saw was EXPLOSION IN RUSSIAN NIGHTCLUB. As most people would be, I became captivated. The number of people who died was 76 and another 60 people were injured in the blast. The fire was blamed on a fireworks being shown in the club for the eighth anniversary. The blame goes to the club and 76 families need some form of compensation for such a stupid thing happening.

week 6

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCKxWQCs3f0&feature=player_embedded

Very racist commercial its just not cool.

Chapter 9: Television

Question: In order to make up for ads like these, what did some networks do to ease viewers’ anger

Answer: They said they would begin "offering" jobs. This does not make sense to me considering what the commercial is actually implying about a race of people. My opinion is that there is no such thing as race just different looks.

week 5

My favorite movie of all time was The Godfather. Not only is the plot well done but there also was new things that were used in the movie making it a break threw. They used a slow zoom in on many scenes. This was never seen before, adding dramatics to the movie that you never have seen. The movie was a smash hit and still is known around the world. People have their opinions that it is to violent but really the movie is about a culture and you must focus.

In class we talked about how FOX news station uses images, certain words, individual beliefs to get you to think along their lines. Myself included, and many others who watch their programing may think I have never seen any wrong doing on FOX's behalf. But after I watched this movie I realized that it is not just FOX who does these things. Today in journalism there are so many information feeds that are telling us things that are not news, they are only voicing their opinions. This is wrong in my eyes because we only get half of a story. They expect us to go out and find information they are supposed to provide us with. So when we tell our friends and family about and interesting fact we learned today we are not telling them garbage. That is all I am saying, because half of a story is not a story at all. It is an incomplete project that someone was to lazy to finish. That is all I feel these corporations need to do. Give me all of the facts so when I go out and promote the things you said (by promote I mean mention) I do not look like an idiot. The news should be like a debate, every side has a strong believer on one issue and an opposing issue is at the ready to tell you they are wrong. Not just one person saying "BLAHHBLAHHBLAAHHHHHH I am right follow me" that is a cult, sorry to put it this way but it is.