Sydney Blocker's Blog Post

When reading Sydney's blog post about the new underground beginning on the internet, I very clearly understood what she meant and agreed. her post really made me think about this new underground that I had never thought about before. In our classroom discussion, we talked about how the underground was fading, but after reading Sydney's post I realized that it's not fading, it's been reintroduced into digital form. Most people don't know about this internet underground though, because it's the underground. What i mean is that what belongs in the "underground" category is there because it's not viewed by many people and they just don't know about it.

CNN Fairness

In this article about the Affordable Care Act and Obama apologizing, they only quote and cover the democratic side of the story. They never once talk about a republicans opinion on what Obama had to say. Although this article isn't about them, you need to cover every side of the story. One of the 7 yardsticks is fairness. This guidelines for journalists measures whether they cover all sides of a story or not. Especially when writing about politics, they need to get every possible side o the story which they rarely do. News stations never talk to liberals or conservatives, unless they're supporting that specific party. On other stories however, they usually do a good job. There is still room for improvement though, so they need to make sure they always cover every side of the story and stay unbiased.

WHAS News Story

There are many unimportant news stories out there, and this is one. WHAS has reported on this news story about a woman bringing an alligator onto a train. The 7th principle of journalism has told us that "it (journalism) must balance what readers know they want with what they cannot anticipate but need. What this means is that journalists need to give their audience information that is important and that will have an affect on them. This story of an alligator is not important. It's just an interesting, eye-catching story. WHAS should not even allow this story to be reported on. This story of the woman and the alligator is very weird and peculiar indeed but the readers don't need to know this information which is the opposite making the important interesting.

Response to Ginny

Ginny's blog about the Camm trial is both spot on true, and a little humorous. I love the pictures she uses to demonstrate what she is saying in her critique of the news stations. I totally agree with her about this news story and how over reported it was. Yes there is some importance to the story but reporting on it everyday is a little too much. I think Ginny did a good job with this critique and she makes valid arguments on what they did wrong and how they could have done better.

TV lecture

Television had a huge impact on radio. In fact, Radio wouldn't be what it was today if it weren't for TV. During our lecture about TV, I learned that television took all of radio's performers because they realized that now the audience could put a face with their voice and they could become more popular. This mass exodus of radio's performers leaving caused the audience to leave also. This in return made radio demassify and to change its content to strictly music or some talk shows. this is why today, we mainly hear music on the radio. I think this was cool  to learn about because i have always wanted a radio station that played ALL the music I like instead of one genre.

Wave 3 Southern Drawl Article

The WAVE website contains this article (http://www.wave3.com/story/23970405/well-shut-my-mouth-southern-drawl-voted-most-attractive) about a recent survey of which accent people find most attractive. This story does not abide by the first yardstick of newsworthiness which states that news stories need to have a "direct and lasting impact on a wide audience." The story WAVE has reported on does not have a direct and lasting impact on people. The fact that a survey showed a southern drawl  was the most attractive does not need to be reported on. People can give their opinion on the survey yes, but it doesn't impact anyone. WAVE needs to stick to reporting on other more important topics and news stories. If they could have changed the story to show an impact on people then it would have been fine, but they didn't.

The Internet

The lecture on the internet has truly been my favorite so far. The discussion was about how the internet has changed our world and the effects it has had on media. We talked about how everything you do on the internet stays there and you can't get it back. I learned that the internet has made media companies change their old ways to new internet friendly ways. For example, newspapers have now put their content online for you to see, some even being totally online with no hard copy. I think it will be interesting moving forward to see how news media and organizations adapt to keep their companies running. I certainly know that as we continue to advance technology everyday, media will need to think of new ways to get their audience to spend money.