Response to Lauren's Post on Internet
     Lauren Traylor's blog about the internet discussion we had in class was spot on. She talks about how the internet has caused some music stores to go out of business. "There used to be big music stores in the bigger cities, now majority of people get their music from iTunes thanks to Steve Jobs." The internet (including iTunes) have caused records to demassify because now you only have to buy one song not ten for a more expensive amount of money. I liked how she used this example. 

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                                                                   WORLD NEWS= GOOD!!
      On a more positive note, WDRB has done a great job of not filling most of its broadcasts with sports that don't affect our media. All other stations seem to report on them. Sports have their own channel, I don't think its necessary to put them into our news media. There are some cases in which sports would be very important to broadcast in the media in cases such as economic problems, health injuries, criminal cases of the athletes, etc... Instead of sports they fill the media with a one minute sections to show what is going on throughout the world. It is important for us to know what is going on in our world today. We normally have about four  international stories while a few other stations have none.

                                                                 
    When we go to our different groups in class I notice how WDRB is covering some stories but not all.  WDRB violated make the important interesting. They're covering less important stories. When in our groups we have a small discussion of our lead stories. I've come to realize that most of the other stations have more important stories than WDRB has. Other stations cover more interesting stories longer and with more detail. I can remember how they kept having their lead story about the David Camm trial, ( I am not saying this trial was not important it was just overused a lot to an extent where it wasn't important to report on.) while other stations had crime investigations or important politics.

                                                                  Detail Makes the Story
    WDRB has a lack of explanation on stories in between their lead stories and their kicker story. Their lack of detail in each story really puts you in a bad position. Later on you have to go find out more about a 30 second story you just watched. There was a story a little while back talking about the first legal whiskey still. That is all they mentioned. I found out later after Mr. Miller did some research that it was the first legal whiskey still since prohibition in Hardin County. I think WDRB needs to have less stories and longer stories with more detail.

                                                                     Over Using Stories
      Watching WDRB recently, I realized their over use of stories. This is a violation of inclusive. They have about an average of eighteen stories per show. That is a lot compared to other stations with an average of about seven stories (WAVE 3). The stories that they talk about are between thirty to forty five seconds long. Most people don't even have time to understand what has happened. People will forget what they've watched by the end of the show. Many of these stories that are broadcasted on WDRB, are never broadcasted on other channels because they're not very important. WDRB does a good job of summing up their stories.

                                                             Movies Theaters Make it Through
       Every time I go to a movie theatre I wonder how this business has lasted with their overpriced snacks, and somewhat expensive movie tickets. Why don't people just get popcorn from the grocery and rent a movie from red box?

       I came to found out in class, that movie theaters never demassified because of the social experience, genre variety, culture influence, and the BIG screens. As I thought about these factors, I realized that is very true. Most of my friends will go to the first showing of the movie they were dying to see, just to tell everyone they were the first and to have the experience. This was very interesting to me because I normally watch it at home with lots of distractions, but I don't really mind because I can pause, rewind, stop, or watch it later. Another big factor of why movie theaters are still in business is to get the movie popular and to gain more profit.  I enjoyed this lecture because I never realized what the importance of a movie theatre was.

                                                                  Parts of a Newspaper
    The parts of a newspaper is one thing I was surprised by. I would've never guessed that an inside box would serve as an index. The parts of a newspaper are normally relevant to what they're called: the column (just a column), logo (like Courier Journal), caption or byline (description of picture), and headline (topic of the article). But as i said, there are a few that I would've never guessed. The ears was one of the few that i wouldn't have guessed. The ears are just the parts on the page that will say By: Courier Journal or by another news company. This interested me so much for some reason. As soon as I got home that day, I got a newspaper and started looking at the different parts of the newspaper.