Courier Journal Article Critique 2

'Two Bardstown Road Buildings For Sale' is not a civic contribution or an enterprise related article. In the article, it talked about how 115 year old building are now for sale on Bardstown Road for commercial use.

The article explained that the two buildings for sale are between 10,000 and 30,000 square feet and how they are now being used to store MetroSafe communications equipment. The article also mentioned that the homes will be auctioned to commercial buyers and then put into use for whatever the buyers needs are.

I thought that this article was only reaching out to commercial home buyers. Why would I need this in the long run? I do not have millions to spend on an old creaky house. Why report on this when we are having an election in a matter of days?

The reporter of the article also never reached out to any commercial buyers and how this would affect them in the long run or what they would do with the property. This would have made the article more interesting, made it important, and made more people possibly get involved.

Overall, the article was only reaching out to a certain audience and is not newsworthy.

Read the article here:
http://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/local/2015/10/27/two-bardstown-road-buildings-sale/74700684/

Courier Journal article Critique

The article 'Chick-Fil-A Planned on Bardstown Near Costco' is neither relevant nor newsworthy.

I found the article while scrolling through local news because I am in the courier news group. When I clicked to see the rest of the article, I was surprised that this type of article is in the news.  This article has many problems, one being that it is only one sided. The article never reaches out to the audience or the consumers of Chick-Fil-A. The only opinions presented are those of the design crews who came up with the design and location of the new restaurant. The article is only informing readers about the new restaurant. After reading, I felt uninformed. Why a new Chick-Fil-A? Why there? What are the estimated sales going to be? There was also a part in the article talking about a nearby movie theatre and I thought that that was going off topic so I was very confused by that.

This article had no real purpose besides to tell consumers about a new restaurant on Bardstown Road by the Costco. It is not newsworthy because it does not explain, or visit both sides of the story.

Read the full article here.
http://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/local/2015/10/27/chick-fil--planned-bardstown-near-costco/74672498/

Television

Today we finished our lecture about television. I think that the mass mediums are a very interesting and broad topic and learning about ones that are in your home are especially interesting.

I really liked the part from the lecture about how they would advertise how certain movies, movie theaters, and tv sets would have color by putting that at the beginning of the show. It made me think about all the old movies and how they show 'colors provided by technicolor' at the beginning. Then I remembered The Wizard of Oz and how amazing it would have been to see that when it first came out because it was the first movie with color.

I also really enjoy talking about the business side and the impacts of mass mediums because a lot of people don't really think about that when they sit down to watch tv or go see a movie. I thought that it was crazy to hear that the average amount of hours watched was seven per day. One impact of tv that really seems relevant and like it is still heavy today is the political advertisements. Since local, and national elections are coming up, it makes sense to broadcast lots of ads about candidates and their platforms. I feel that their are always local elections going on so we always see political ads on tv.

Radio

In the beginning, radio was used for advertising. Broadcast was all live and was group communication because not everyone could afford a radio. I thought that the history of radio was very interesting. I never knew that radio was used for church, and a mass form of advertising. Now, radio is mainly advertising and I never connected the old radio with the new radio.

During the lecture, Miller told us that KDKA was the oldest radio station and that it still exists today. I immediately wanted to hear what their radio station sounded like and how they broadcasted music, news, and advertisements. To my surprise, KDKA was mostly local traffic updates, news, and weather. I was disappointed because, to me, radio is music and blocks of weather and traffic updates, not multiple blocks of traffic and weather.

  

Response to "Newspapers" by E. Streeter

I enjoyed reading E.'s response to the newspaper lecture. I agree with what they said about the media of a newspaper seeming very American. Yes, other countries have newspapers that are successful and even better produced than some of those in America. But, newspapers are a very American thing. Every one knows that the perfect idea of an American family is, a boy riding a bike, and throwing the daily paper on the lawn. Mom is making breakfast and Dad is reading the paper in his robe. The newspaper is like hamburgers, American, but made everywhere in the world.

I also really enjoyed what they said about how newspapers have unified the colonies. I think that by having national and international news sources, we are able to stay connected with the world and learn and, in a way, experience other cultures.

See their original response here:
http://paperboy-productions.blogspot.com/2015/09/response-3-newspapers.html

Movies

The way that our world has technologically advanced, completely blows my mind. In class, we always start out by talking about the history. I really like how we do this because it allows me to think about all the people who got to experience these things develop around them. My parents and grandparents always tell stories about how they would sit in the living room and listen to a baseball game, news, or weather. Now, our generation can pull out a hand held device and search the web virtually anywhere.

Personally, I am very interested in the film industry, so learning about the impacts, the history, and the importance of movies today was very intriguing. I had always thought that the beginning of movies began with the start of the twentieth century. When Miller first started discussing movies, he started telling us about moving pictures with sound. I remember watching old movies with my grandparents in black and white. This is what really got me interested in film. I also remember watching old movies with Charlie Chaplin running around faster than he should be.

I never knew that some silent movies sometimes had a live band that would play music to keep the person rolling the film on track. I though that that was very innovative and helped people keep on track.

Since I am looking into a profession that might involve cinematography, film, and directing, talking about the importance of movies made me feel like I had a secret advantage to the industry. Film producers try to make the audience feel like they are fully part of the experience. They incorporate emotion and make movies a big production to get the audience involved. I like to feel like I am a part of the movie and I want to make other people feel like that by creating movies.

Courier Journal Response

The past few weeks we have been analyzing news sources and tallying up how many local, national, and international stories there are. We also tally what each article is about. I am in the Courier Journal group.

I have noticed that a lot of the Courier Journal stories are about local events. There is a lot of coverage of things about social issues in education. There is also a number of national stories about health or things about crime or sports. The international news follows the conflicts in the Middle East which a lot of other news sources are covering.

I also noticed that there is not a lot of political coverage. Yes, there are a few articles about who is running and polls about who would vote for which president if they had to vote tomorrow, but it does not go into detail. I think that there should be more coverage of the upcoming election here in Kentucky that will be happening in early November, or the presidential election next year.

I think that the Courier Journal is newsworthy, but thy are not covering all of the news stories that they could be to make them more successful.

Media Critique

The article "'Turd Ferguson' makes it to real Jeopardy'" is not newsworthy or relevant.

In the article, it talked about how a contestant answered the final jeopardy question with "What is the ballad of Turd Ferguson p.s. hi mom?" The article also had tweets from several people and their responses to the episode of jeopardy.  People are saying that the contestant is their hero. Videos from the episode end with CNN saying that the response was a prank.

But how is this relevant? Yes it was funny to some viewers but this is not news. And the fact that the article was under the money section was unbelievable. I was astounded at why this is on one of the most "reliable" news publications.

Yes the article is true, has multiple views, and has room for dissent. But the article is not relevant to me. It is not local or will have an impact on my life in the long run. After reading the article I was asking myself questions like "so what?" which I guess makes the article have no explanation.

Another one of the big yardsticks that this article violated was the yardstick of enterprise. The article author was mainly reacting to what the contestant did and not investigating why or what her intentions were.

Overall, this article is for entertainment only and is not newsworthy.

http://www.cnn.com/2015/09/17/entertainment/turd-ferguson-jeopardy-feat/index.html

Response to "Ellitist/Populist" by Nicole White

In Nicole's entry about ellitist and populist media, she talked about how we spoke about populist news companies. 

Nicole said a lot about how being a populist company does not make you a bad company and yes, populist media companies are in it for the money and this doesn't make them bad companies. These types of companies want to make more money to reach different groups of audiences which is their main purpose. My theory is, the companies that are now populist started as elitist but figured out that that type of media with their magazine or newspaper company, could not make money.

Below is a link to the blog entry.

http://www.meme-queen-trash-horder.blogspot.com/2015/09/mr-millers-views-on-elitist-and.html

Response to "Mass Communication" by Emma Pagni

I really like how Emma related the types of communication with primary and secondary sources. After reading this entry, I really thought about that and even went back to my notes to relate them together and now I feel like I have a completely new viewpoint of it. I also really liked how she related filters to distractions and impediments to disruptions. 

I also wanted to address the part about decoding and internalization. Decoding is like the physical copy of the media: like the video, article, movie, book etc. And internalization is internal. Its just like comprehension and without it then the media is not considered mass communication.

Below is a link to the article.

http://freshoffthepresswithemma.blogspot.com/2015/09/masscommunication-i-thought-that-this.html

Books

Books are one of the most influential medias of journalism. Without them, we would have no widespread literacy, no public education, there would have never been a Renaissance Era, and most importantly, there would be no journalism.

Before the first invention of books, a vast majority of society was illiterate. The only people who could read were the wealthy and people of power. A world like this would most likely have been very dull. I know that it would drive me crazy if I didn't know how to read or write. The very first people who started making printing press' were the Mesopotamians, Romans, Chinese, and Egyptians. China was in the lead with technology by 1040 CE when the creation of the movable type press was created. I feel like after this technological advance, China never really went back, they kept advancing and left everyone else in the dust. I thought that it was really interesting how we talked about the history of the type press' and how they relate to how knowledge is power. I really found the Pre-Gutenburg Era to be fascinating.

I really like how Miller explained the history of the printing press because it gave you a better view of how it evolved and how it has become what it is today.      

Comment on Mass Communication Blog Entry by Emma Pagni

http://freshoffthepresswithemma.blogspot.com/2015/09/masscommunication-i-thought-that-this.html?showComment=1442354111951#c8936456473089622253

Above is the link to my comment on a reply to our mass communication discussion.

Magazines

Today we had a discussion about magazines. I found the concept incredibly intriguing. I had no idea that magazines were so old. I knew that newspapers dated all the way back to the 18th century and even further but I didn't know that this was true of magazines. To me, a magazine is bigger than a newspaper but smaller than your average novel with glossy pages and a glossy cover, which made me believe that they were not very old.

The discussion was very fascinating because the way Miller explained what was inside of the magazine reminded me of what is inside of the literary magazine, One Blue Wall. Miller explained that in old magazines there was serialized fiction, children and adults fiction, personality profiles, and investigative articles. In later years when we could print photos, photo journalism was introduced. All of these things are included in One Blue Wall. I think that magazines today should revert to the original content of magazines. Whenever I see a magazine I can't help but think "I would never read that, it's full of gossip and garbage," which would not be true if we reverted to the original content of magazines. I think that it would be really cool if we continued to do serialized fiction in magazines today.

Another part of the discussion I really found interesting was when we talked about how it gave people a reason to be literate. I completely agreed with this. It's interesting how many conversations you have a day about things you read about or saw on the news or read in a book. This would definitely give people a reason to read so that they can be part of the conversation and not be left out. I know that what really got me to start reading was hearing people talk about books in and out of school and give amazing reviews and have long and drawn out conversations about an article or book.    

Demassification

Since the actual concept of demassification is a response, it allows people to understand more about it because they can relate and understand it.

To me, demassification makes a lot of sense. Put yourself in a situation where demassification would occur.

You are a CEO of a major magazine publication. You are having a meeting with your sales officer who tells you that your overall sales are down since the publication of the new food magazine. Your magazine has a food section but it is not the whole magazine. Ten years ago when you started the publication, you wanted to be able to reach everyone with your magazine but now people have interests, and they only want to read about their interest. After research of other magazine publications and retrieving data about your own, you decide to target only a few audiences with your publication. You cut your food section, self quizzes, and sports section and leave the fashion and celebrity sections so you can target a young adult audience.

This is demassification, it was a response to your lower sales. To keep yourself from going underwater, you changed audiences and targeted young adults. A lot of demassification has to do with advertising, if you see advertising in something changing, then demassification is happening with that company.  

Comment on Elitist/Populist Blog Entry by Nicole White

http://www.meme-queen-trash-horder.blogspot.com/2015/09/mr-millers-views-on-elitist-and.html

Above is the link to my comment on a reply to our types of media discussion.

Conglomeration

I think that the concept of conglomeration is one of the widest concepts of mass communication. I find the topic very interesting and fun to learn about. Following the lecture, I was really thinking about how we can see conglomeration in our everyday lives.

 I remember from class we talked about how Disney owns other networking channels like ABC and NBC. After class, I tuned in to these channels and watched for a bit to see if I could pick up on any signs that conglomeration was present. I knew that conglomeration was in affect for the channels like ABC when a commercial for the show Once Upon A Time came on. I watched the show in the first few seasons and then lost interest after a while. From what I remember, Once Upon A Time is a show based on fairytale characters and creatures that are virtually "stuck" in Storybrook, Oregon. The fairytale characters were the classic characters like Rumpelstiltskin, Little Red Riding Hood, and The Elves and the Shoemaker. But as it has progressed, more and more Disney characters have made an appearance on the show. In the commercial, Disney characters like Merida from Brave and Elsa and Ana from Frozen are being introduced in the upcoming season. Using my knowledge from the conglomeration lecture, I figured out that this was a sign of the type of conglomeration we talked about. Disney is the bigger company that bought out so many other smaller businesses, like ABC and NBC. The introduction of the characters in the show Once Upon A Time, which is produced by ABC, which is owned by Disney is a type of self promotion and advertising.

I thought that the fact that I could make these type of relations was really interesting and the way that I remember information. I hope that we continue to have lectures where I can relate the information to outside sources.