RESPONSE TO NEWSPAPER:ALI SHACKELFORD

     I think that Ali's response to the newspaper lecture was very relatable in the sense that we didn't understand similar concepts or ideals. I have to say that even though newspapers are still an occurring thing in society today, they are definitely not as popular, but I think that they have such more reliability and as of now technology in my opinion will not advance itself so much to the point that it will be available to everyone until later down the road. Also I think what you wrote about the 'Kimye" situation was funny because they seem to be this power couple and just can't seem to choose which direction to go in. (ha-ha get it...no?)

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RESPONSE TO INVERTED PYRAMIDS:MATTIE TOWNSON 

     "Today, we really don't have the worry of being unable to deliver our news messages out to the media companies that produce them" I think that this statement is so true and something that I think us American citizens don't appreciate as much. Knowing that we are able to spread news the minute it appears on social media is something to be grateful for. We are able, even at a young age, to speak our minds and to show the world what we are made of. I think Mattie did an amazing job on her reflection to this topic, it was extremely understandable!

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MASS COMMUNICATION

    I think this lecture was the most confusing lecture that there has been thus far and the one that was probably the most annoying to study because the entire concept of this mass communication is so long and tedious: it requires distance and it has to travel through space and time? WHAT?!!? There are so many details that you have to check off to consider something to be mass communication.

     I like the little diagram that you (Mr. Miller) created but in my opinion I think that that would've been enough for us to understand what mass communication is because there is all this other access information that we spent some time on that could've been used for something else.

     Then there is the concept of impediments and filters. I LOVED this part of the lecture, more specifically the filters because it got me thinking on the psychological part of it. After finishing this lecture I went home and experimented with the different types of mass communication and that was really cool because I was actually enticed to try something that related to this lecture.

      Nonetheless, this was still really confusing for me personally but I think that I wouldn't be going to Manaul if I didn't accept a challenge every once and a while.
      Mass Communication is like a pomegranate: it's all ugly and tuff on the outside, the color of flames that want to burn you alive and then you cut it open and take a bite and some good comes out if it...more so bad than goof but really mass communication is something that's crucial to our everyday lives. How we conect with people virtually and how content is distributed today 

    REPEAT

     Plagiarism seems to be an extremely touchy subject to high school teachers and I think it's something that they push too far on us because it's almost as if they expect us to cheat and use someone else's work knowing that being in the J&C magnet that's not likely. So when I found out that it would be our first lecture it was insulting to be honest because it was only five days after school had begun...what would us 14/15 year old students use off the internet only five days after school has begun?

     What teachers speak about is nothing new and we know that going to Manual is something that we should be grateful for and we are. Almost all of us were probably in a school and in an environment that was very tuff and very hard to be an individual. So coming to Manual, where there is so much diversity and so much creativity, the only thing that all of us want to do is to create, write, and speak our minds.

     Conditioning our brains to not plagiarize is a re-run of a simple addition equation in math. I think all of us are very aware of the consequences and the judgmental stares of teachers that would come our way if we were to do so. So there is no need to tell us over and over again because we know better, that's why we're Rams.
             In a teacher's point of view I can see how that would be worrisome because all they want to see is the progress of their students and how they grow throughout the year because it's THEIR OWN WORK. Even with the repetition of saying :"Use your own words" "Site your sources" there is really no cure for someone who has cheated in their life. If they did it once they will do it again and if they can get by with just WIKI responses they will. I don't see this obsessive need almost to repeat the same thing over and over again. Academic Dishonesty has consequences, and if us juveniles decide to break the law of "your words only" they will face the consequences.
        Repeating yourself isn't getting anywhere.

INFORMATION V.S ENTERTAINMENT

   The binary models lecture was something that was really interesting to me just because I never knew the back story if you will, of all of these models. I think the one that I found most interesting was the Elitist-Populist because the information that we got was so true. Elitist is all about "access to the world" there is no pretense about whether or not it has to do with celebrities or gossip, it is almost always information based. Populist is what really interested me because this generation is always on the latest trends, always has the newest technology, and always knows which Kardashian got divorced. As the lecture proceeded I realized that Mr. Miller was making a bad connotation to the Populist side of the binary model like it's the wrong way to run a business. Populist ties into demassification, it is almost like a niche, it reaches a certain age group (but of course being the generation we are it is significantly larger)that entertains their minds and gives them what THEY want and what THEY want to hear, that is their entertainment, much like news stories about the Middle East are to adults for example. It is all about perspective and what each individual finds interesting.

    But really there is this process that is apart of each model but it differs with each one and that's really cool to know the process of how things are put out into this world.

         I never really understood the concept of Horizontal and Vertical Monopoly other than Horizontal is illegal and Vertical is legal and that there is this really long process of a recording studio to the distributers.

    This is my favorite lecture that we've done thus far because it talked about niches and that's kind of like a fad and that's how a relate Demassification to those ideas of small groups being able to enjoy their certain likeness. There are things that will eventually pass as we evolve as a generation but it was still part of our time.
           Although this is something that I found interesting I wish we could've spent more time on these models because I think that there were some things that have another side; things that were unspoken and things that I think as a class, never got in depth to. An example of that would be conglomeration. I personally don't think it's fair for companies to buy out other companies, it's almost like an insult to smaller companies and businesses who work extremely hard to be where they are today and make themselves known to their nation. But is there a rule stating that a larger company can't by out a smaller company if they are financially stable or there isn't any particular reason to close it down? So many questions that don't have answers! 

WHERE WE ARE TODAY: BOOKS

     You don't have to be a genius to create something great that will revolutionize the future of the world. The creation of  the Gutenberg Metal Printing Press was something that interested me a lot, the lecture I mean, because I didn't really know the history of how that started and I never thought of how our world would be today if it weren't for his creation. 

     That being said he wasn't the first but I think he was more well known since he wasn't this super genius who wanted to conquer the world. He was just this average man who wanted to make the lives of other people easier, who wanted a world where everyone could read in the language that the majority of the society spoke and that's pretty admirable.

     If it weren't for his creation of the metal printing press there wouldn't be this wide spread of literacy. We as a nation today are so obsessed with technology and the wonders of it that I don't know any different. We would definitely not be as evolved as we are today and there wouldn't be this hustle and bustle of how to advance ourselves even more, and that includes everything.
      While we were learning about books and how they would effect our world if we were to not have the evolvement of the printing press and literacy rates came up in the lecture and I decided that on my own time that I would look up the literacy rates of America. It didn't come to my surprise that America did not have the highest literacy rate and that was extremely disappointing knowing that we are so called a nation of opportunity  and education. Why are we not making more of an effort to help these citizens of America to read, to learn the value of knowing what is going on around us. If anything, it is an embarrassment to what we stand for as a nation. 
     Books will never perish, they will never become something that wasn't know in the future generations. Knowledge is power and the power to read and write, to create something that is unexplainably and utterly yours is something magical, something so special that one can ever censor you from. The words that you write on a piece of paper or the words that you speak will are always remembered. So books, literacy, and evolvement of words is important. More important than America is making it seem  

IMPORTANT? I THINK NOT (MEDIA CRITQUE)

    http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2015/09/17/dog-stands-guard-week-until-trapped-friend-found/32546581/

     This article that was written September 17th about two dogs who were found after being lost for two weeks in Washington state. The journalists who wrote this: Susan Wyatt goes on to explain how Tillie (the dog who was not in the concrete ditch) would go out everyday to find help and how Tillie never left the side of her companion: Phoebe. Then it leads to things like how a non-profit rescuing organization posted the dogs information hoping to get some news back and it's a "happy/ go getting" article. One likes to think about how truly amazing animals are and how they do affect the lives of other people but this is not something to be placed in the NEWS section of a website.

     Dogs are great and all but not superior enough to earn an article about themselves. This is going against the seventh element of the ten elements of journalism which is: Make the important interesting. There is no need for the nation or the people locally to know that two dogs from Washington state now have a home and are safe. There are millions of people who have dogs and who only care about the well-being of their own. This also goes against one of the seven yardsticks, being the first one which is: Newsworthiness. This is definitely not news worthy because this will be on USA Today for a minute and gone the next, this does not effect a large group of people and will most likely (most definitely) be something the world will be talking about.

      Ms. Wyatt could've definitely left this article out of the news section...that's probably the best option at this point. Nonetheless, even if someone were to defend this article, there isn't much to defend. An article that is dead.