Sunday, October 23, 2016
Response to Maddie's Post: Demassification of Radio
Link to Maddie's Post
After reading Maddie's post about radio demassification, I definitely agree with what she said. This was one of the lectures I was able to be very engaged in because I had no prior knowledge about the beginning of radios. Maddie and I share similar thoughts about radio; we both think it's very intriguing that when radios were first invented, they were the big craze and everyone was fascinated with them, but now, we don't give a second thought to pressing a button in our car or in our homes and instantly hearing music or a talk show.
Although Maddie did a great job explaining radios and their demassification, there were a couple of things that I didn't totally agree with. First, radios didn't really "create" our national culture, magazines were the first to do that, they just enhanced it and enforced it in a way. Second, in my opinion, radios weren't really art of creating the teenage image. It was more of television and movies that made this happen because of the combined visual and audio of the characters.
Overall, I enjoyed reading through all of Maddie's blogs, but when I read this one, I wanted to respond to it because we shared ideas and at the same time had different views on certain ideas.
Response to WDRB "Man dies after crash in Trigg County"
Link to full story here
Today, I chose to respond to a story that WDRB decided to post on their news tab on their website. One of the first things that I noticed about the story was "Trigg County"; Trigg County is not all that close to Louisville, and last time I checked, WDRB was a Louisville news station. The story was about a man making a turn in his car and then going off of the road, hitting a tree, and passing away at the scene. Because this happened in Trigg County, a county that is almost 200 miles away from Louisville, this story breaks the yardstick of local relevance. It may be in Kentucky, but it doesn't have any relevance or impact on the people in Louisville, and this is where the story was posted because it was on WDRB. I'm finding that WDRB does this a lot; they find accident or crime stories that take place really far away, then they include it on their news website.
Today, I chose to respond to a story that WDRB decided to post on their news tab on their website. One of the first things that I noticed about the story was "Trigg County"; Trigg County is not all that close to Louisville, and last time I checked, WDRB was a Louisville news station. The story was about a man making a turn in his car and then going off of the road, hitting a tree, and passing away at the scene. Because this happened in Trigg County, a county that is almost 200 miles away from Louisville, this story breaks the yardstick of local relevance. It may be in Kentucky, but it doesn't have any relevance or impact on the people in Louisville, and this is where the story was posted because it was on WDRB. I'm finding that WDRB does this a lot; they find accident or crime stories that take place really far away, then they include it on their news website.
Wednesday, October 19, 2016
Response to WDRB Homepage
As I clicked onto the WDRB website and started scrolling through the top news stories, I started noticing a trend. Almost every other story was related to crime or about crime itself. EVERY OTHER STORY. Nine out of twenty-three stories on the front page of WDRB were about a crime.
One of the stories that particularly stood out to me was the title of, "Louisville woman reportedly hits step-father with broom handle in argument over Donald Trump." Not only does this defy the yardstick of journalism of newsworthiness, it also is not up to par with the yardstick of local relevance. The story may be local, but it is definitely not relevant; it a family argument does not affect the citizens of Louisville, so they don't need to read about it on their local news station website.
The story isn't newsworthy because it won't affect a large amount of people for a long time because it's a family argument that got a little out of hand, so people don't really need to know about it because it's not going to affect their personal lives for a long time
Today I was really disappointed in WDRB. I was stunned to see that almost half of the. reading new story were about or related to crime: it's not good journalism, for they're not abiding by the elements and yardsticks of journalism.
Tuesday, October 18, 2016
Response to WDRB Target Clown Mask Removal
Link to Story
Recently, Target has announced that they have removed a variety of clown masks from their stores and online website due to the recent phenomenon of clown sightings and social media posts of clowns with weapons. It's been frightening people all over the country as people start to continue this hobby across the nation. The removal of masks from Target stores has had a wide range of responses from customers and also other stores. The owner of the Caufield's Novelty in Louisville, Tracy Caufield, said that this is a decision that they never would've even considered. She also said she feels that there are still little kids and people who want to dress up as clowns who don't mean to scare anyone, so she said she owes that to the customers who still want to dress up as clowns.
To me, it's utterly astonishing that this event has taken over the country and that people are so scared that Target felt the need to remove clown masks from all of their stores. Dressing up as a scary clown to scare people is neither funny nor amusing, it's just weird and creepy, and it makes me sad and embarrassed that something like this is happening so much in our country.
Recently, Target has announced that they have removed a variety of clown masks from their stores and online website due to the recent phenomenon of clown sightings and social media posts of clowns with weapons. It's been frightening people all over the country as people start to continue this hobby across the nation. The removal of masks from Target stores has had a wide range of responses from customers and also other stores. The owner of the Caufield's Novelty in Louisville, Tracy Caufield, said that this is a decision that they never would've even considered. She also said she feels that there are still little kids and people who want to dress up as clowns who don't mean to scare anyone, so she said she owes that to the customers who still want to dress up as clowns.
To me, it's utterly astonishing that this event has taken over the country and that people are so scared that Target felt the need to remove clown masks from all of their stores. Dressing up as a scary clown to scare people is neither funny nor amusing, it's just weird and creepy, and it makes me sad and embarrassed that something like this is happening so much in our country.
Monday, October 17, 2016
TV Terminology
Today in class, we learned about all the different television terms we can use when awe are talking about our news station. Once I learned all the terms, I was able to identify the parts of WDRB, my news station, that went along with the terms. For example, I now know that when one of the reporters is at the location of the place they are talking about in the news story, this called a remote. They are reporting live from a location outside of the news studio. I also know that when an anchor or reporter says, "Back to you Tom," this is called a toss because they are introducing someone else with a new story. I also am able to identify WDRB's blocks, or the parts of the show between breaks. WDRB usually has three blocks with the beginning being the longest, the second starting with the second very long weather report, and the last is really short an usually covers sports. One of the things I found kind of funny was that when WDRB has teasers of stories that will be later in the show, they ALWAYS say, "Still to come..."; I have never not heard them say that when WDRB is giving teasers. Now that I have learned all of this TV terminology, I will be able to successfully use it in the future and in my media critique.
Connecting to Ella-Response to Ella Treinen
Link to Ella's Connecting the Dots Entry
After I saw that Ella had chosen to discuss and make connections to a similar topic of class discussion that I did, I knew that I wanted to respond to this entry, or "Connect the Dots", in Ella's words. I discussed the topic of television in one of my entries, while Ella discussed radio broadcast and then the time when television came into focus and how that affected radio.
I definitely am intrigued by the point that tells us that without television, there would be no so-called, "teenage years". There would be no idea that there is a time in everyone's life when they are free to let loose and have some fun with their friends without an adult constantly peering over their shoulder. We would be considered adults by this time in our lives; we would be getting married and starting a family if it wasn't for the image of a teenager that television was able to create, as Ella brought up in her blog entry.
I was definitely able to delve deeper into the topic of radio demassification after reading Ella's entry. I find it interesting how when a new technology becomes more prevalent, the big technology craze that was before it is forced to demassify as people become more interested in the newer technology, in this case television, rather than the old craze, which would be radio.
It makes me happy that television created the teenage profile, because without it, there wouldn't be that carefree time in your life when you're able to make your own decisions, rather than a playful child or a serious adult. Ella's entry definitely helped me to pursue more of the knowledge that comes from radio demassification and television invention.
After I saw that Ella had chosen to discuss and make connections to a similar topic of class discussion that I did, I knew that I wanted to respond to this entry, or "Connect the Dots", in Ella's words. I discussed the topic of television in one of my entries, while Ella discussed radio broadcast and then the time when television came into focus and how that affected radio.
I definitely am intrigued by the point that tells us that without television, there would be no so-called, "teenage years". There would be no idea that there is a time in everyone's life when they are free to let loose and have some fun with their friends without an adult constantly peering over their shoulder. We would be considered adults by this time in our lives; we would be getting married and starting a family if it wasn't for the image of a teenager that television was able to create, as Ella brought up in her blog entry.
I was definitely able to delve deeper into the topic of radio demassification after reading Ella's entry. I find it interesting how when a new technology becomes more prevalent, the big technology craze that was before it is forced to demassify as people become more interested in the newer technology, in this case television, rather than the old craze, which would be radio.
It makes me happy that television created the teenage profile, because without it, there wouldn't be that carefree time in your life when you're able to make your own decisions, rather than a playful child or a serious adult. Ella's entry definitely helped me to pursue more of the knowledge that comes from radio demassification and television invention.
Thursday, October 13, 2016
Taunted by Telvision
Ever since we finished our lesson on broadcast and television in class, I can't help but ponder the history of how radio broadcasting and television came to be every time I am sitting in front of my television at home. How did people come up with the idea of television? Why do so many people seem to be entranced in the world of TV? What is it about TV that creates such a semblance to our real lives? These are all questions I am able to answer after having learned the history of radio broadcasting and TV.
Radios used to be something that people would go to their friends houses and listen to something that would be on the radio show. Nowadays, that description seems to fit more into the TV category, which proves that when television was invented, it did indeed steal some of the spotlight from radios. When television was first created, people were amazed. Back in the 1930s, TV could be deceived by many people as something from the future; they simply could not imagine that they could have a box in their home that would show them moving pictures with audio. It shocks me that today, I don't know anyone without a TV in their house and more people have a TV in their house than indoor plumbing. So literally, TV has become more important to people than having running water, but there was a time when running water was new and not many people had it, so we can definitely see the process of technology turning into something basically everyone has as time passes.
Our perception of reality is influenced a great deal by TV. Because TV is so lifelike, too often we turn what happens on TV into how we think society truly is. For example, when people watch lots of crime shows, they think that the world is more unsafe than it actually is, because they see real people living in this altered version of our world on TV. Also, so many of the fashion trends, sayings, and stereotypes come from what we view on TV. When we see lots of people wearing a certain style of clothing on TV, that style becomes so much more popular in real life because we can think that TV is our actual reality. This process is followed for things we say and stereotypes we believe to be true; we see it in the TV world, then we incorporate it into our world.
I was so interested in this particular lesson because I was intrigued by how much TV plays a role in our daily life and how much we perceive to be our reality. It was super interesting to find out the reasons behind the rise of television and why it influences us so much, it was a little bit creepy; this topic definitely makes me want to find out more about how television taunts us.
Radios used to be something that people would go to their friends houses and listen to something that would be on the radio show. Nowadays, that description seems to fit more into the TV category, which proves that when television was invented, it did indeed steal some of the spotlight from radios. When television was first created, people were amazed. Back in the 1930s, TV could be deceived by many people as something from the future; they simply could not imagine that they could have a box in their home that would show them moving pictures with audio. It shocks me that today, I don't know anyone without a TV in their house and more people have a TV in their house than indoor plumbing. So literally, TV has become more important to people than having running water, but there was a time when running water was new and not many people had it, so we can definitely see the process of technology turning into something basically everyone has as time passes.
Our perception of reality is influenced a great deal by TV. Because TV is so lifelike, too often we turn what happens on TV into how we think society truly is. For example, when people watch lots of crime shows, they think that the world is more unsafe than it actually is, because they see real people living in this altered version of our world on TV. Also, so many of the fashion trends, sayings, and stereotypes come from what we view on TV. When we see lots of people wearing a certain style of clothing on TV, that style becomes so much more popular in real life because we can think that TV is our actual reality. This process is followed for things we say and stereotypes we believe to be true; we see it in the TV world, then we incorporate it into our world.
I was so interested in this particular lesson because I was intrigued by how much TV plays a role in our daily life and how much we perceive to be our reality. It was super interesting to find out the reasons behind the rise of television and why it influences us so much, it was a little bit creepy; this topic definitely makes me want to find out more about how television taunts us.
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