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.