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.

   
                                                                  Sarah's Magazine Response
     I found Sarah Schmidt's article on magazines to be short, but full of information. She told what was important about magazines that make them different from newspapers. The way she told it, you knew what stood out to her the most in that lecture. The reason why I liked this post is because she tells how it stood out to her without going into deep detail that would not be necessary for a simple response.



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                                                   How will the Coverage Help?
       This article is about a law pushing for parity of coverage to all mentally ill people. Parity to physical illness. In the article, the writer violated many of the nine principles and seven yardsticks of journalism. The writer violated truth, loyalty, explanation, and make the important interesting.  The journalist never tells how the law would benefit those with mental illnesses. She am not saying in any way that I am against helping people with mental illnesses.
       First, truth was violated because in the article, it never explains that the coverage- from health insurances-given to the mentally ill will let them get the help they need. How will they get to the doctors if they cannot drive themselves? How will they know how to take the medication they need to help their illness? How do they know the treatment will work? They were not truthful when they said that coverage will help them, we will not know that until coverage is provided. We have no examples of where this has worked. This was not complete, therefore we do not know if it is true.
       Second, the principle of loyalty to the citizens was violated. They never pushed to seek advice from a psychiatrist. Getting professional input from psychiatrists will give the patient and the public more information about the coverage that may effect them. The public should be able to understand since they are the tax payers. This journalist talked to the trade group, American Health Insurance Plans, a trade group for health plans. This writer did not ask the trade group how parity will solve the problems of the mentally ill.
       Third, the journalists violated explanation because they never explained in the article how the community might be affected by this coverage. Many people would like to know if it will improve our community. For example: If someone with a mental illness were to receive medication and sell it instead of consuming it, the person buying the pills could make the community worse because of their addiction. The person with that mental illness would not benefit and their condition would not improve.
        Fourth, the journalist violated make the important interesting. She believe this journalist did so because the author shared about a story about April Blevins- a lady with bipolar disorder that did not get the support she needed. In Blevin's story, we learned about how she felt, but it never explained how additional coverage will help her outcome. In the article Blevins says, "But you suffer and your family suffers." The writer never told how her family suffered nor did Blevins ever explained if her few treatments helped her with her disorder.
        In conclusion, this writer did do a great job of getting the amount of sources (context), just maybe not the right sources.




http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/09/21/law-pushes-for-parity-in-mental-health-coverage-/2847889/

     
                                                          What About the Students?
        One of the Seven Yardsticks of Journalism is context. This means the article needs to have a good amount of sources. This yardstick was violated in an article about the cell phone usage throughout some high schools in the Jefferson County Public School system. In the article they are talking about how the use of cell phones can help the students learn better. In this article, they get interviews from a few teachers at the schools that passed the cell phone usage policy. This journalists never seemed to interview students on how they think it will affect their education.
        When people are not getting the students input on something that will affect them the most, then she doesn't see what the author of the article is trying to get across to their readers.



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                                                 A Better Understanding of Conglomeration
  I was looking through my classmate's blogs and decided I wanted to learn more about conglomeration because I did not understand that subject very well. I decided to use Alyssa Durbin's blog about conglomeration to explain how it interested me. I don't think this blog is too long or too short. It explained it perfectly. First, I think Alyssa did an excellent job of describing conglomeration because she tells what's good and bad about it. In the article she says, "It is positive because more money is raised and it is more efficient for one company to make all merchandise for a specific product. It is negative because of job loss, less competition, and less diversity of content." Later in the article Alyssa explains how it will have an impact on our media. I quote Alyssa, "Conglomeration can either help spread an idea or can make it seem less important." I now understand the purpose of conglomeration and the affect it can have on a company. In her article, she explains that conglomeration can cause monopolies. I knew what monopolies were, but, I didn't know how conglomeration affected them. Alyssa went on to say, "They do this because most people are not willing to critique their boss as they will be fired. Monopolies are a result of conglomeration." Over all, Alyssa did a great job explaining our class lecture. 



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                                                                        Hot-Cool Binary Model
        Looking back on binary models, I figured I needed some reviewing. Now, I understand the difference between one of the binary models (hot/cool) a lot better. When you need your full attention to do something, it should be hot; for example, a book. If it's cool, then it doesn't require as much attention, such as music or television. While you're listening to music, you can play a video game or watch television . This is very interesting to me because when you're reading a book and your mind goes onto another topic, you can read for pages and have no comprehension of what you just read. Most people prefer the cool model because it doesn't require all your attention. You could wash the dishes or, give your dog a bath while catching up on the news. Most people these days agree that television is more convenient for their busy lives. Most people are juggling school, family, friends and extracurriculars. This continues and the categories may multiply as they get older. Television is quick and easy to obtain without much attention, while a newspaper can take up your whole morning. That is why I believe books will demassify as time goes on. Some of the generations to come may not learn the patience and have the focus to even read through a book with the growing popularity of the television.

   

                                                  The Importance of Music and Recordings
           As I was looking through all of our lectures, I decided to use one that is fresh in my head-musical recordings. I really like this lecture because I never knew that music also transmitted culture, news, and language long ago. I thought it was interesting how people would share the news through music; such as the song, "Workin' on the Railroad". They're talking about how the railroad was being made and it was transmitted to other people. I found this lesson intriguing because one of siblings is a musician who records. Also, I never knew how Edison had such an impact on devices we use today, such as lighting and the phonograph. I also never knew that a phonograph was a recording system. As I listened more in class I came to find out that it wasn't until the 1920s when a microphone was made. I had never realized  that you could make a recording without a microphone.  When Edison invented the phonograph, you simply spoke, and it was recorded. I think that this lecture is so important for people who don't realize how important music has been ever since the 1800s because of its effect on the transportation of media.

     
                                                                        Magazine Demassification
       From the 1950's through the 1970's magazines demassified enormously. This is so interesting for me because I didn't think that TV was a large part of media during that time. As I listened in class, I learned that there were only three news channels available for the public. Not to mention that the TV was on during the afternoon hours so that the public could be informed during their lunch breaks. This contributed to the cut back of magazine sales throughout areas of the US that had started distributing magazines. With all of the advertisements on TV, many companies knew that sales were going to go down if they continued to advertise in magazines. Many companies then switched their advertisements to TV stations because there were many more viewers. As a result, magazines became less popular.