Wave 3 News Media Critique

Wave 3 News shows a pattern of reporting on neighborhood shooting and not getting opinions from both sides. It is very important that reporters get the opinions of people other than the just the ones who were involved or living in that neighborhood. By not doing this they are violating the principle of verification, which states that a journalist not only needs to have sources of their information, they need to report on both sides of the story. 

In a story Wave News reported about a man who shot a teen burglar in the arm, the are are a few quotes from people in the neighborhood, including the man who shot the boys and a couple from the police explaining what happened. There wasn't any quotes from people who lived outside of the neighborhood. Those people have opinions too! They should be included. I have also noticed this problem in other stories reported by Wave News, and I see it on their T.V. a lot. 

I'm also questioning the newsworthiness of this story and other neighborhood shooting type stories they report on. The only people that really concerns is the people who live in that neighborhood, or surrounding neighborhoods, and chances are those people already know. So why are they telling us about it? It's entertaining of course, but it is not real news! 

However if one neighborhood shooting was part of a pattern of nieghborhood shooting and the shooter has yet to be caught, it would be newsworthy because it is warning people that there's possible danger in their neighborhoods. 

I think Wave 3 News needs to rethink what newsworthiness is and focus more on what's really important.

Response to Ginny's Blog

I really like how Ginny (http://ginnycon12.blogspot.com/) describes what she is talking about as well as adds in her own opinion. So if i wasn't very educated on her topic, I could still understand what she wrote about. I also like how she adds a picture with most of her posts, it makes her whole blog more exciting to look at. She's also very "to the point" as she writes, so you don't have to read through a bunch of blabbing on about the subject to get to what shes saying. I like her post about magazines, it explains it very well and provides examples that help to understand the topic really well.

Sams Blog Response

I like reading Sams blogs (http://samwinreallife.blogspot.com/) because he words what hes trying to say really well and I like the humor in his writing. I know exactly what he means by those "That makes perfect sense" moments.  I have those all the time. I agree with what he said about the Newspaper Lecture. It is really interesting how Yellow Journalism got its name and I would like to know more about it. 

Class Discussion Conglomeration

When we talked about conglomeration in class it sounded like it was a really bad thing, but I think for some people it can actually be really good. Obviously if your the head if the conglomeration you would be making a lot of money, so it's good for those people. I also think it would benefit the people who really like their content. We talked about how things often get shoved through a lot of different types of media in a conglomeration, like there could be a really popular book and it would be made into a movie, a video game, a tv show, ect. Which leads to less diversity of content. But if you really like the contet then it would benefit you a lot because you would get to experience your favorite book or movie in multiple different media forms. So in that case it could be good. At the same time though, I understand why it could be really bad if you don't like the content then obviously it would be bad, but also a monopoly could form of a specific type of media. For example if one person owned all of the book publishing companies, then if they didn't like your book, there would be no chance of getting it published.

Class Discussion Mass Comunication

Mass communication is media that has the ability to reach people all over the world now and in the future. I never thought about how long mass communication lasts. Like if I make a YouTube video, it will be there even after I die. I think that's so cool. I also never thought about books being a technology. It's really weird thinking of that as technology because now we think of technology as phones and computers. I guess a long time ago books were the only technology available to people.
I liked this lecture because it made me think about all types of communication and Mr. Miller also explained it really well, so I feel like I have a pretty good understanding of mass communication.

Class Discusion Magazines

I didn't realize magazines had changed as much as they did. I just assumed they had always been aimed toward niche audiences. I thought the magazine lecture was really interesting because it changed the way I think of magazines. I thought they were just a form of entertainment only, but they we're actually very influential to journalism. They left room in their stories for photo journalism and personality profiles. I think that's really cool because those things weren't used in the newspaper because of lack of space. I also thought it was cool that they did a lot of investigative reporting. They  dug deep and "raked through the muck" to get the best information for their stories. I have a lot more respect for magazines now because of this lecture.

Class Discussion Movable-type Printing Press

If I was asked what I thought the most important invention ever was before this lecture, I probably would have said something like electricity or the internet. But now I think it's without a doubt the movable type printing press.  When Gutenburg invented his version of the printing press it changed the world. Because of his invention books became available to people other than the rich Kings and churches. Most importantly, the bible became more available because Gutenburg's printing press could produce more of the translated bible which made it much cheaper. This was important because now people could read the bible themselves and not depend on the church to tell them what it says. I think this was very important because now people could have their own ideas about god and be more independent from the church. Ideas could also be spread more easily, like political ideas could be written , copied, and dispersed throughout the country. The most important thing that happened because of this invention was the increased literacy rates. If people were illiterate there wouldn't be any type of technology because you would need a basic understanding of reading to do almost anything innovative. Gutenburg's invention is  the most important invention of all time because it led to literacy, independence, and technology.

What's up fellow earth creatures?