Response to Alex Cox's Blog

Alex keeps her posts short, simple, and easy to understand. I do wish that she would try to add more detail ti her posts because sometimes the lack of detail can be disappointing. One post that I liked was her post on television. While she could have elaborated on the pros and cons of television, I agree that television entices us to watch the next episode of a television series with it's use of cliffhangers. I enjoyed how she uses her television show preferences to start off the post. It left me wondering where she was going to go with her post. Overall, while I enjoyed her post, I was still disappointed by the lack of detail in her post.

Here's the link to Alex's post about television: http://newofnewsforyou.blogspot.com/2014/11/television.html

Response to Laurie Jonhatan's Blog

Laurie's blog posts this six weeks consisted of mostly her reports on WAVE and the one that I found myself agreeing with is her latest post titled "WAVE 3 News Coverage Overall". I do agree that crime stories were reported the most. I also agree that there were very little international stories, but considering it is a local television station, I'm not surprised. I appreciate how she used numbers and ratios in her posts to show exactly how the number of crime stories greatly outnumbered the number of any other stories. I also appreciated how she went back to her older television news logs to get examples of the types of stories WAVE reported on.

Here is the link to Laurie's post: http://dreaminreality14.blogspot.com/2014/11/wave-3-news-coverage-overall.html

Response to Kathryn Minor's Blog #2

Kathryn manages to communicate her ideas in short paragraphs, which make it easier for the reader to understand. One of her posts that I found interesting was her post about radios. She manages to summarize the class lecture and still add in her own opinion on radios. I did agree with her when she said that people use the radio for music rather than the news today. I also agree with her that radio allowed people to broadcast their opinions, which allowed us to hear how other people see things. One little thing that I somewhat disagree with is when she said that radio gave people news to talk about. While I do agree that people did get their news from radio, I believe that people have been talking about the news ever since newspapers were invented.

Here's the link to Kathryn's post on radio: http://kathrynminorblog.blogspot.com/2014/11/had-very-big-effect-on-both-society-and.html

Response to Emily Nolan's Blog #2

Emily's blog is very informative. Not only that, she also includes pictures that manage to drag my attention to her blog posts. One post that I really found interesting was her post about television. Not only did she provide evidence that supports her thesis that television was the huge competitor of mass media, she also used herself as an example. The fact that she used her former addiction to television as an example to support her thesis makes it more believable. Having a real life example makes understanding what she is trying to communicate easier. Also the way she uses italics and quotes helps emphasize how strong she feels about her thesis. She also ends her post with a call to action, as she urges the readers to go without television for a week. It is a simple, yet effective call to action seeing as I have been trying to avoid watching television all week.

Here's the link to her post about television: http://controversialwaffles.blogspot.com/2014/10/the-big-cheese-television.html

Recordings: The Beginning of an Era

Today I figured about what truly led us to have a growth in our technology. I believe that the earliest recording devices are what led us to advance our technology. The first recording technology was invented in 1877. It was the phonograph invented by Thomas Edison. As you can guess, the first recording device wasn't all that. It was very fragile and it could not be reproduced. Fortunately, Emile Berliner invented the gramophone in 1887. It was more durable than the phonograph. It was also reproducible and you could make electrical copies of your recordings. The gramophone was a huge jump from the phonograph. Then, Maxwell invented radios, speakers, and microphones in the 1920s. This had huge impacts on life back then. Musicians became more popular and culture was spread worldwide through music. From radios we then went to television and then the internet. To think that this may not have been possible without the phonograph. It's all about trial and error when it comes to technology. Edison tried to make a good recording device, but it wasn't that great. This led to Berliner to build upon Edison's mistakes and create the gramophone which led to the invention of modern media outlets.

Television: The Cock of the Walk

While televisions may not have started out so popular, but they're certainly on top today. Televisions began as a luxury that only the wealthy could afford. Now, there are more people with television than indoor plumbing. Why is that? Well first of all think about what television brought us. Television had already done many things that many of the other media outlets had done. It could broadcast across long distances and it could report breaking news. So why did television become so popular? Well I think it was because television could show visual images. Imagine if the War of  the Worlds incident happened when televisions were prominent in households. The people back then would've instantly dismissed this as there was no visual of this. I believe that people will believe you if there is actual visual evidence. Another reason why television became popular is because all the celebrities were moving over to television since they weren't well known in the public eye. People only recognized their voices, but some radio celebrities were still unknown because their radio voices differ from their normal speaking voices. As a result, radio celebrities moved to television. most likely because they wanted recognition. This caused radio to demassify and television became the top media outlet during it's time.

WDRB aka The Local Crime Beat

WDRB doesn't report a diversity of stories on television. Crime makes up almost half of the television stories. While I think it is important for people to know about the crimes happening around the area I think WDRB should report more stories regarding politics and international news. When the big senate race was near, there were hardly any political stories regarding the senate race. Also matters of international news such as Ebola or ISIS were hardly reported on WDRB. Once Ebola cases were found in the U.S I think that WDRB could have done more than two stories. While I don't think Ebola will be huge epidemic here in the United States, some of the more paranoid people would want to know this stuff. I think that WDRB should have at least  reported on Ebola recoveries so it would stop all the paranoia over Ebola. You literally cannot cough at school anymore without people thinking you have Ebola. Also, stories of the Islamic States are hardly reported on WDRB. Yes, I understand that local tv news stations will report more local news. However, you have to consider the magnitude of the story when reporting on something. I would rather want more information on Ebola and ISIS than whether or not a house is up for sale