J1: News station

   One thing good that I notched WAVE did as I was recording the stories was focus on local stories. This could be viewed as good or bad. I view this as good because WAVE is a local news station so they are reporting on what the claim to be reporting on, local news. WAVE also had some national and international stories there were just few compared to the total amount of stories WAVE has. I believe WAVE overall is a good news station for television considering what the other stations are like in the Louisville area.
  

J1: Television

   I never realized what an impact television had on society. Talking about it in class made me realize what an impact TV had. Legalizing gay marriage is something that is going on right now in the United States. The show Modern Family for example, like we talked about in class, really effected the acceptance of gay marriage. I'm not saying Modern Family completely changed the way we look at gay marriage but it definitely changed the ways we view it.

J1: News Station

   With research I have acquired through watching WAVE 3 at 6 pm I have noticed that WAVE mainly covers crime stories. With a total of 74 stories 34 of them are crime. That is outrageous for having eight categories the stories could fall under. Honestly, the only crime that needs to be covered is crime that is currently going on. If the crime is solved and unpreventable the crime is then irrelevant. I think a good thing WAVE should do is cut back on the crime stories.

J1: Internet discussion

   Internet impacted every single mass media in some way or another. In class we discussed about how internet either over powered other forms od mass media or caused them to go online. That is why we have online shopping and television online.

Internet also effected music. There used to be big music stores in the bigger cities, now majority of people get their music from iTunes thanks to Steve Jobs. The internet is everywhere and people are on it constantly.

J1: News station 1

   Something I noticed about my news station, Wave 3, was that there weren't many stories. Some of the stories actually went into detail but not all of them. I think for only showing seven stories all the stories should be pretty in depth. The lead story in the show isn't always relevant.
  
   I also noticed how the weather segments were very long, along with the sports. I think there should be more news stories and less sports. There are whole stations devoted to sports so that is where the people wanting to hear about sports should go.

J1: Radio Discussion

     I never realized that radio was the first live mass media. I thought it was television. I would have never thought of radio. I found it interesting how department stores would advertise for radios in their store so more people would purchase radios. Radio changes the way people got news. Nobody had heard of live news, it was unheard of. Viewers always had a delayed reaction with other forms of mass media. People would gather around the radio and listen to news or sports games.

J1: Movie Discussion

  
   On 10/16 we had a really good conversation about movies. I had always been one to assume that movies were long, even from the start. Now I never thought the first were three hours but I just thought they were maybe an hour. Hearing that movies were short but yet so popular surprised me. When I'm thinking about it now, I understand. I love Youtube videos and those are very short. I understand now why people liked the short movies back then.

   It wasn't all about the movie itself though, as I discovered in class. It had a social aspect to it as well. People go to the movies with friends and family, some go alone but that's not typical. There is also the cultural aspect of movies. Movies have so much to offer and you never think about it until you think and learn about movies.

Media Critique #2

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/09/26/20709211-los-angeles-schools-halt-off-campus-ipad-use-after-students-hack-tablets?lite

  This article was featured under NBC's US news. When clicking on this section anyone would expect to find relevant information to the United States as a whole. This article was about Los Angeles and students hacking I pads. This information is not relevant to the United States as a whole. This article would be appropriate in Los Angeles or a California newspaper, not the US news. Local relevance is one of the seven yardsticks of journalism therefore it should be relevant. 
   Another seven yardstick that this article broke was fairness. Not once did the article get a quote from a student. That would have changed the article and would have made it more fair to everybody involved in this topic.

Response to http://emmamtravis.blogspot.com/

   I came across Emma's post about 9/11 photographs. It was something I hadn't come across through anybody's blogs and I was automatically interested. I totally agree with Emma on what she was saying about how it's good that we have pictures because we have something to document events from our lives. Without photographs we wouldn't have visual documentation of historical events. The pictures from 9/11 also tied in with photo journalism because they told a story. Overall Emma's post really got me interested to keep reading.

Response to http://olivialoy.blogspot.com/

http://olivialoy.blogspot.com/

   While I was looking through Olivia's blog I came across her post about recordings. I loved the example of the song "Workin' On the Railroad". I totally agree with what she said. The example she used was very creative and worked well. Her post really summed up how recordings changed communication.

   The topic of newspapers is always interesting. Learning the specific names for things like the kicker and deck of newspapers makes me feel professional. I feel like I'm actually apart of the journalism world when I know this information that not everybody has the privilege of learning. Learning the importance of newspapers today was also interesting. I always like a hard copy of things, I still cant bring myself to buy online books. Knowing the other importance's of newspapers. How they are non-linear and contain way more information than TV is great to know!

Magazine Lecture

   Another topic that I loved talking about was magazines. Especially when we talked about photojournalism. That is what interested me most about J&C. Just talking about it made me so excited to take the class in the future. Knowing how photojournalism came about as an innovation of magazines is something I would have never thought of. Pictures can tell a story but I never made the connection to magazines. This was by far my favorite topic discussed in class even though it was just a few minutes long.

Binary Models Lecture

   The lecture about Binary models was interesting. It explained how companies think, the Elitist Populist makes sense. I see the things going on, like TV displaying entertaining news not relevant, but I never fully understood or learned about binary models. There's not many places you could learn any of the binary models and I'm glad I'm learning them. I think it's cool learning about what companies think and what conglomeration is. I always knew the things companies would do to get money like go buy different advertisers and subscriptions. Actually knowing the mechanics behind this all is interesting.

Recordings Lecture

   Talking about how music came about really fascinated me. It was one of my favorite lectures in class. I love music, I'm constantly listening to it. The thought of not having music in my life disgusts me. I just don't want to imagine my life without it. Learning about how music came about was so cool! I never really thought about the mechanics of how music came. Recording is what made music possible for how we see it today. Music is mass communicated today but back in the days to hear music you had to be at a concert and that would just be group communication.

Media Critique #1

 

 

http://www.kentucky.com/2013/09/18/2828716/french-senate-votes-to-ban-child.html

 

   This article is about how France’s senate banned children 16 an under from competing in beauty pageants. This news isn’t relevant to enough people. This was featured in the Lexington Herald. This wasn’t made for The Lexington Herald but the news shouldn’t be featured on this website. In the 7 basic yardsticks of journalism it talks about Local relevance. This may be relevant to people interested in beauty pageants but only in France. It would be relevant for France to write about this, which they did, but the author of this (the associated press)got information from France.

    If people really wanted to know this information they might keep up with beauty pageant websites and that is where an article like this should be featured. A magazine about beauty pageants would also be a great place to feature an article like this; the news for Kentucky is not the place.

    This article was mainly a populist article. The author probably thought that the topic of banning beauty pageants was interesting for people, which it was, but it was yet again, not relevant. It would be a different story if this article was about the United States or Kentucky, not France.