Freshoffthepresswithemma; Television review

Before I go over Emma Pagni's blog post I must say her entire blog looks quite official and the pieces of hers that I've read have been great! Now onto this post which I must say is very similar to most of the typical responses for this lecture, except there was one main difference. Pagni doesn't watch television. Making this entire lecture foreign information to her which is actually very lucky for her. I would've loved to relive learning about tv. Now I'm sure she had some sort of point of reference and knew what tv was but all the while I'm still quite jealous. The only thing I really have to say about Pagni's response, is that there's not much to say, it was pretty much like most of the responses out there, nothing really stood out except for the fact that she didn't watch television. Which I mean in the context of this I guess is important but at the same time I still think the response could've been a little less generic. All in all a great blog, very proffesional. You can find Pagni's blog here.

Datsomattie;Response to "Man conquers addiction, cancer and weight to compete in IRONMAN triathlon" review

This critique of a particular news story published on October 11, written by Mattie Townson, was complaining that a story about the iron man event and one mans experience was not newsworthy. The main and strongest point that Townson brings up, is the fact that, even though this story may be inspirational and human interest, it doesn't require the majority of the news block. I would have to completely agree with what Townson is saying and could not have explained it better myself. Because I personally rather dislike human interest stories that are not needed, which is the majority of them. And I'll admit that sometimes human interest stories can be fun or intriguing, but this is the news, not the tabloids. But this one honestly doesn't deserve coverage at all really let alone the majority of the block. It was a swift review and got straight to the point, I thought it was a very well made arguement and that most would agree with her when she says that. You can find Townsons blog here.

Pocketsecrets2015; Queen of Technicolor

This was very lengthy yet still insightful critique made by Melissa Perillo about her opinion on WHAS11s coverage over the death of beloved American actress Maureen O'hara. Throughout Perillo's critique, she discusses the topic of how WHAS11 seemed to be nitpicking her story for the most interesting parts, but still at times kept up with the truth while including good moments and bad. But still as a whole attempted to make her look good. Perillo does bring up a point in saying near the end that this doesn't really seem like they are doing this for her sake, and are really just trying to make the interesting important. My only criticism on this critique would probably have to be that throughout it, it never really had a solid stance on if it was newsworthy or not till the end, and all that comes before that is mainly context that wasn't as necessary as she might have thought. You can find Perillo's blog here.

Recorded Music lecture

I'd like to start this off by saying, I am a musician, and if I do say so myself, I had thought I knew a lot about the history of music and recording and such. The keyword in that sentence was, thought. I learned so much from this particular lecture, with a lot of the information actually being useful for me in my personal life. I, like most, was aware that before we had digital, we had CD, and before we had CD, we had records and tapes. But I thought that that was all, I was never aware of the fact that any of that, the first object we recorded music on, was a tin cylinder. A lot of the information we learn in this class, is mostly new to me and new to a lot of the students because a lot of the times, it's about things we take for granted or its things you don't necessarily need to know about and are therefore not taught about in normal schools. This was one of those cases. And I personally really enjoy learning about these things, my opinion is that it's better to have more knowledge than needed to survive if you really want to live. But back onto recorded music, which is something I think a lot of people in our modern society take for granted. Because the kids today grew up with it in the palms of our hands at nearly every second of the day. So it was quite eye-opening to hear about how my struggle originally went into it. I thought a lot of the information gone over in this lecture was more context that we would need later on and not something that would be that important in the grand scheme of things, but I still really enjoyed and found this lecture interesting.

Newsisforcats; WHAS: International news? I think not. Review

Newisforcats, Lauren Erdburgers blog, is not only a blog with a great name but a blog with mostly great content, and with this citique I found it continued the streak. In it Erdburger goes on to discuss about how she believed that WHAS, the need channel, was not providing news on the international level. This could've been quite a large claim all by itself, but I thought that Erdburger handled it very well, and even brought up some points that made me think about other news sources and question their international news status. In it she talks about how with a planet teeming with news worldwide, such as things like the war going on, ISIS issues, the Volkswagen scandal, and WHAS had only reported on one of these events, while the rest of their stories were either local or occasional national. Honestly I would have to agree with her in saying that WHAS should report on more international topics if they'd like to keep that international news badge. You can find the aforementioned blog here.

Simmonsfile; Air Jordan's

I had the utmost pleasure of visiting Thomas Simmons blog, and finding this critique of an article put out by a local news website. Simmons describes the article in brief but understandable notes. The article had mainly been discussing a police investigation after seeing an ad that was a person selling shoes that had allegedly been stolen. Which Simmons then goes into talking about how this as a whole was not newsworthy, on a local or any scale. And although personally I thought Simmons citique could've been a bit longer, and dive a little deeper into the yardsticks and talk a little bit about how it somewhat even made the interesting important instead of making the important interesting. I felt that overall Simmons tackled it well and was very to the point, which worked well. And I also agree with him in stating that a crime story on this level was most certainly not newsworthy. You can find the Simmons blog here.

TV lecture

I went into this lecture, like the movie lecture expecting to know a lot of the information, due to my high consumption level of tv and movies. But I was completely blown out of the water by some of the history of the tv and how it evolved from a trivial pass time that was considered boring, to being in the home of nearly every American in the country. Not only was the history quite interesting, but as was learning about the business and process involved with a tv show. This may have been due the fact that I had a lot of preconceived notions about television that I had thought were true and when I found out that either they were just facts of legends or not true at all, I was very confused. It was like getting my entire perception of television flipped on its head. The main fact that had thrown me off course was, when I first learned about television, I never learned that when it took a long time for it to really gain its footing as a mass media. So I just assumed from what's depicted in television today about the time, that it had, when first invented, been revolutionary and everyone wanted one. I always imagined a scene similar to that in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (the Tim Burton remake, not the original) where all of the children and adults rush into the store and try to buy them. But it was amazing to me to learn that was very very false. And that it was nearly the complete opposite of that, until actual shows were starting to play and then the consumers started to want them, but even then it took a little while for them to become interested even after the shows started. I personally really thought this lecture was very informational as a whole and seemed kind of fast paced but that may have been just the day.

Radio lecture

Now I will start by saying, in my previous review of a lecture, I discussed about how I thought a little bit of the information just wasn't sticking with some of other students. But on this lecture, it was the complete opposite. Of all of the lectures this seemed the most interesting to our class, because we'll to be brief, it is quite interesting and not many people really know the history of radio. Which we can blame a lot on the fact that we've sort of forgotten about it as far as a society. I mean sure we still use it from time to time but only in the car while driving or...no yeah pretty much only in the car while driving. It was most fascinating to learn that a lot of the stereotypes about radio that were shown in movies set in the 50s and most periods were radios were true for the most part. With entire families gathering around them to listen to either music, a game, a news event, a show or so many other things, just like how we are now a days with the television. It's just very satisfying to learn that the media was being more realistic than anticipated. And aside from that a lot of the information was just very intriguing, and even comical at some points. Such as when they couldn't travel to an event that was too far away they would piggyback on someone's coverage that was there and just make sound effects in the booth. Or when during some of the war of the worlds broadcasts some of the people actually believed that we were being invaded by aliens. Something about that is just hilarious to me, it sounds like the plot of a three stooges or a Marx brothers episode. Overall I thought out of the entire six weeks this was the lecture I, and the majority of the class, enjoyed the most.

Movies lecture

Being a huge movie buff myself, I couldn't help but enjoy this lecture. The only thing was, at points in it, it felt like those who hadn't previously been fans of movies or of the history of movies, couldn't really relate to or even understand some of the information being given to them. At times it felt like I was watching a bouncy ball being thrown at Velcro and it being expected to stick. I must admit though a lot of people could understand and comprehend it, but it seemed like there was a higher number of those zoning out. But that could've just been because of the day, there are many factors to go into it. I felt it delved into a lot of interesting points in the history of movies, and found the conglomeration vs. the monopoly quite interesting because I had never really learned much about the business of movies before. And, this does go without saying but this was all my opinion and may have just been my perception being skewed by my love of movies. All in all I thought it went over a lot of information that was better than expected when talking about something that could take years to learn about in a 60 min lecture.

Livinginthefastlucy; WLKY response review

At the beginning of this it seems very informal, which I can respect, these are blogs, and blogs are whatever the blogger chooses to make it, but in my opinion a post should be a bit more formal when critiquing a news station. In this particular critique, by Lucy Calderon, she brings up that the majority of WLKYs stories have been about murders, then starts to say that this isn't necessarily bad and that people should be informed about such things. This is where I would have to disagree with Calderon. If the majority of their past stories are murders that is indeed a bad thing. Just plain murders by themselves that don't affect the public in any way shape or form aside from being a death, are not newsworthy. Calderon then goes on to talk about how there are a lot of killings in Louisville, which makes this serious, which is where again, I must disagree. There are lots of killings everywhere, we actually have a fairly low homocide rate compared to that of some other states. But aside from that the rest of Calderon's blog was pretty fantastic, I must say though, I disagree with this critique quite a bit. You can find this critique here.

Response 4: Magazines

From this class lecture I learned a lot about magazines I never would have learned due to how its becoming a dying media. It has been demassified, and moved to niche advertising. But it was once a great American pass time that all would read and converse about. It created serialized stories, personality profiles and so much more making it so important for our history. It set standards in our society for later media to follow. For example the personality profile, more commonly known as tabloids, these were the interesting stories about famous people one could read and gossip about. Or do another, serialized fiction, later setting the idea that books could be series. This little piece of history set so many paths for the rest of literature to later follow which made it an fascinating part of our history.

Response 2: SimmonsFile

On the blog simmonsfile.blogspot.com, the author, Mr. Thomas Simmons, has written a media critique which I would like to discuss. The case of Simmons critique is about Fox News covering the Freddie Grey story, which was in Simmons opinion "the article was satisfactory, and could use some minor improvements to make it better". Throughout Simmons entire criticism, he keeps a strong point of view and stays on topic, while making the entire article condensed so one could understand what he was criticizing, even though they hadn't read it. In my opinion, it was quite the critique and was well worth the read.

Response 1: NewsIsForCats

On the blog, http://newsisforcats.blogspot.com, Lauren Erdberger has written a post about conglomeration. In said article she uses brief and almost terse sentences, but I feel it gets the point well enough across that one who was not at the lecture Lauren is writing on, would get a slight understanding of what it's about. Lauren covers most of the main points of the lecture and uses informing descriptions, overall, I believe it was a good response to the lecture in a whole.

Response 3: Newspapers

To me, I've always thought of newspapers as an American concept, something about them just seemed so...well, American. Maybe the ads, or the faux stories, but it seemed like it would be something more, not just from America. Well I was half right on that, although there were news type papers in town squares long before it, Publick Occerences. It was the first of its kind to be (as close to) a newspaper like we have today. Which this kind of surprised me, due to how most "American" things, were just hybrids of other cultures. But that's why these Newspapers were important, they created this national American culture that we were somewhat lacking before, they unified us as, instead of separate colonies, the United States. Making them one of, if not, the most important national media to occur throughout our history in America.

Response 2: Plagiarism

I learned a lot more from this lecture then I thought I would at first. Everyone has a basic idea of what plagiarism is, but you rarely stop and think, huh is this plagiarism in your daily life. But now being a manual student, it is important for one to ask such questions. With manuals academic honor code, not only was the entire message of this lecture was extremely important, the lecture itself was very informative about the laws and rules behind plagiarism. I found it extremely helpful and knew that it would come in handy in future years if I ever decided to do anything...questionable, all I would have to do is consult with my notes and see if it was plagiarism or not. The most important thing that I found in this lecture though, was the section on PowerPoints and pictures in them, mainly because I was not entirely aware of the issues surrounding them. Overall it was very helpful to learn about.

Response 1: Gutenberg

In all of the this lecture the thing that I found most interesting, was that, like with a lot of history, what you learned in elementary school was not the entire story. Normally in an elementary/middle school lesson plan, we would glaze over the subject just saying, Gutenberg invented the printing press yadda yadda yadda and that would be it, we'd be done. But in this we learned that not only was he not the first to 'invent' the printing press, but he was also not the last. With similar concepts and ideas spreading across the centuries around the world, each new one improving on the last. The only thing that Gutenberg did, was make someone else's idea a heck of a lot more efficient. Which I understand made books a lot more affordable and in turn increasing literacy. But all in all, he gets a bit more credit than he deserves, there's a lot more to the printing press than just one persons innovation.

How Dare They?!?!...Do a Story on That I Mean

One of the most important elements of journalism is to only report on newsworthy things. Without it, the news wouldn't really be news, it would just be information. The difference being that instead of reporting on things that deserve our attention the majority of the air time would be taken up by things we don't need to know. Primarily because most of these things wouldn't affect our lives in a longstanding form, if at all. That is why we, as journalists, must try our hardest to keep true to this extremely important element of journalism.
However I have recently noticed that one of the main news reporting industries in the US has not kept true to this element. CNN quite recently chose to do a story on Ahmed Mohamed, a 14 year old, living in Irving, Texas whom was arrested for bringing a clock to school. The clock had been a science project he had made himself out of a pencil case. The teacher was not impressed but in fact believed she was being threatened due to this young ninth graders race and religion. Now this story may be shocking, entertaining or possibly upsetting, but that doesn't make it news. This story lacks almost all the criteria: this will most likely not affect you, (unless you are the boy, that teacher or possibly his parents) even if this story did affect you, it lacks the longevity to affect you long enough to make it newsworthy, and lastly it is barely significant, it might be worthy of a school newspaper, but certainly not a national news organization. You can find the article I've critiqued here.