WDRB Story "Jennifer Lawrence on how fame has changed her life"

While Jennifer Lawrence is a Louisville girl and it's cool that she is famous now, it it not newsworthy at all. In the article "Jennifer Lawrence on how fame has changed her life" the writer fails to follow the first yardstick of journalism which is newsworthiness. The article is all about what Jennifer Lawrence's life is like now and how it's different compared to before The Hunger Games. While it is interesting learning about a famous person from Louisville and how her life is different it is not newsworthy. This story has no long-lasting impact on a large audience. It's just one big celebrity story that does not deserve to be on a news website under the "News" category.

WDRB Story "H & M Opens in Oxmoor Center"

Story- http://www.wdrb.com/story/23968474/hm-opens-in-oxmoor-center

   In the above article "H & M Opens in Oxmoor Center" the writer, unknown, fails to follow the first yardstick of journalism, newsworthiness. The writer spends more than 3/4 of the article talking about the fact that people are very excited for the store to open, and giving reasons as to why people are so excited about H & M. The third paragraph sounds very much like an advertisement when the writer mentions, "The H & M concept is to offer very fashionable, high quality merchandise at reasonable prices." The writer then explains in the last two sentences of the article that the new store will benefit the store by drawing more people to the entire shopping center. Overall, the story won't have a long-lasting impact on a large group of people.

Classmate Blog Response- Drew Frey

Post: http://alfrey99.blogspot.com/2013/10/class-talks.html

I completely agree with Drew. I never thought about how long it actually takes different forms of media to catch on until I started taking Journalism. I was very surprised to learn that it took 5 years for the current name of "internet" to catch on instead of "arpanet". It's crazy to think that it took 16 years for the internet to go from 16 million users to 2.4 billion users. That's an average increase of almost 150 million users per year. From 1995 to 1996 the number of users increases by 20 million and from 2001 to 2011 the average increase per year is 190 million users, which shows that when the internet did catch on the popularity grew rapidly.

WDRB Story " Bourbon sold to raise money in memroy of fallen officer"

Story URL: http://www.wdrb.com/story/23872920/whisky-sold-to-raise-money-in-memory-of-fallen-officer


In the WDRB story on the commemorative bourbon bottles, written by Paige Quiggins, the writer fails to follow the first yardstick of Journalism which is newsworthiness. Yes, it is an interesting story and it is heartwarming to think of different ways Officer Ellis is being remembered after his death, but overall the story doesn't actually impact a large group of people in Kentucky. The only newsworthy part of the story is the very end of the story when the writer states " No one has been arrested in the shooting death of  Officer Jason Ellis. Anyone with information is asked to call police."  These two sentences affect the most people more than the rest of the story because they tell people that the shooter could still be out there and that they need to contact police if they know anything. In the end, this story was not newsworthy and was overall unnecessary considering the fact that there are two other stories about Officer Jason Ellis on WDRB's website.

Internet Lecture

I really enjoyed the internet lecture. Before the discussion I had never thought about the internet as a thing with all past mediums together. The past forms of media sat in the back of my mind while I was on the internet. I never though about listening to music on iTunes as an easier way of listening to recordings. One of the biggest things the lecture opened my eyes to was the fact that the internet made the cultural underground completely disappear. I never really knew what the cultural underground meant until our discussion but after the lecture I realized that the internet has not only gotten rid of the cultural underground, but it has also slimmed the amount of things that people think are weird or different.

Movies Lecture

I really enjoyed our movie lecture because of my interest in broadcast journalism and creating and editing video. Before our lecture I never really thought about who invented the first video camera. I really liked how Mr.Miller didn't just say. William Dickinson invented a camera that could shoot movie and sound". Instead of stopping there he went on to explain that Thomas Edison didn't actually invent the first camera that could shoot sound , Dickinson worked for Edison, and he also explained how the camera takes a bunch of pictures and then the images are clicked through very quickly to give the pictures a look that makes them look like one continuous movie. I never really thought about the social experience you get when going to the movies but after our lecture I realized that the movies is a cool place where everybody is fine hanging out.

TV News Terminology

I really enjoyed learning about all the t.v terminology because of my interest in broadcast journalism. Everyday of Journalism I would walk in and see the Broadcast Journalism story board and some of the stories would say b-roll and I had had no idea what that was supposed to mean. Whenever I would make and edit entertainment movies on iMovie I didn't have to know those terms, but for broadcast journalism you need to be able to keep your audience entertained while informing them of important information through interesting visuals. With the new terminology I have on the t.v news terminology I'll be able to better understand the way editors and anchors think. I'll also be able to use this new terminology to determine if something is prerecorded as a package from advertisers , like a VNR, or if it is a package that the channel created solely for the purpose of informing, not persuading.

Font Fashion Show

My digital design class has the Font Fashion Show this Thursday. Basically what it is is that each person in our class chooses a font, no two fonts the same, and then they have to dress up as their font would and walk around the room to music while everybody's watching them. The walk, costume, and music have to express your font, not the name. My font is Happy Days from fonts101.com. Since the font has a 50's diner style I'm dressing up in a poodle skirt costume I had from an old Halloween. My walk has some 50's dance moves in it and I'm walking to the song "Rock Around the Clock" sung by Bill Haley. The song I'm walking to is fun and old fashioned just like the font looks. While everyone is doing their walk around the room the judges will be deciding on 1st,2nd and 3rd place. Although I'm sure everyone's nervous I think we're all looking forward to it as well because it's our chance to get to know each other.

"It's the start of somethin' new..."

High school is a big step, and it is completely different from middle school. In good, and bad ways. When you start high school you're starting something totally new and different (hence the title of the post). At my high school students get so much more freedom. You don't have to walk in lines anywhere. You don't have to eat in the cafeterias if you don't want to. The second day of school my friends and I just walked out of the main building to go to a separate building and I was eating a brownie the whole way over. All I could talk about during the walk over was the fact that I was eating a brownie while walking away from my high school. But like I said earlier, there are some bad things too. Like the fact that I was exhausted all the time for the first month of school. All I wanted to do was sleep... and eat:l  But the pros of high school definitely outweigh the cons.

Response to Media Critique(J1)

Blog: http://graysonsmit.blogspot.com/

I definitely agree with this critique. The writer definitely made the interesting important, violating the seventh principle of journalism. It seems to me like the writer heard about the "car funeral" and thought " I have an idea! Why don't I write about this because people would get a good laugh about a guy giving his car a funeral even though it isn't very newsworthy." I liked the critique not only because it was written about an article that wasn't newsworthy, but also because it was short, simple, and got to the point.

Response to Media Critique(J1)

Blog: http://sydneyblocker.blogspot.com/

I'd just like to say wow! This article was amazingly written. Sydney didn't use third person and the article she critiqued wasn't newsworthy. The article I critiqued was also from usnews.com. From the looks of both our critiques U.S News isn't producing the best work right now. The only thing I would advise Sydney to do would be to put a link to the story before, after, or in the critique. I'd definitely like to read this article myself because it sounds like a good laugh. Sydney also provided a simple solution to the violation of the first yardstick. Overall this was a very well written media critique on an article that was in violation of the first yardstick.

Newspaper Lecture(J1)

Newspapers were a huge medium, and the fact that they started in the American colonies and are still around today is amazing. If newspapers had never been invented then we might not have the first amendment which is one of the most important. When John Peter Zenger criticized the royal governor not only did he help found the first amendment but his case helped the jury decide that the truth was the ultimate defense and that's what set America apart from all the other countries. I feel that without newspapers there would be very little freedom in our country. I'm very glad that newspapers were started because we wouldn't be able to write,say or practice any of our ideas and beliefs and who would want to live in that kind of country?

Binary Models Lecture(J1)

During our lecture on binary models I found it very interesting that there were so many different models because I only realized that forms of communication were either information or entertainment. I had no idea that information-entertainment was a binary model. The other models were really interesting to talk about because of the fact that you can fit any form of mass communication into one of the categories for each model. During the lecture I wondered if the elitist-populist model could be conglomerated because of it's relationship to the information-entertainment model which can be conglomerated into "infotainment". Is it possible for a media organization to try and get their version of important news out to the people while trying to get a big audience?

Magazine Lecture(J1)

I really enjoyed the magazines lecture because I learned so many new things. I had no idea that magazine innovations included photojournalism, investigative journalism, personality profiles and the first national advertisers. I never really thought much about magazines before the lecture because I only used them to cut out pictures for projects or to read about Lacrosse, but after the lecture I realized just how big magazines were and why they are still around. Magazines can be found very easily and are much cheaper than paying for cable or internet access which makes them easily accessible to lower income families. Although television and the internet are demassifying(or already have demassified) other media types I feel that magazines will always be needed somewhere due to either low income, bad technology skills or simply the desire to have an actual object to hold instead of a staring at a screen.

Photographs of 9/11(J1)

During the video that the class watched on 9/ll I sat amazed at the fact that photographers could capture such amazing photographs of such a tragic moment in history. The fact that the photographers could take such an ugly event and create amazingly beautiful pictures shows just how experienced and talented they are. The video shows how important photography is to journalism. When the articles of 9/ll were accompanied by one of the amazing photographs taken it gives the readers a deeper understanding of what that moment was like and how it affected so many people.

Media Critique (J1)

Article: http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2013/09/19/house-to-vote-on-cutting-40-billion-in-food-stamps

       In the article House to Vote on Cutting $40 billion in Food Stamps written by Lauren Fox and published on www.usnews.com , the writer fails to be fair to all sides of the topic. The  seventh yardstick of journalism is fairness and the writer is unfair by writing three quotes and six paragraphs opposing the cuts to food stamps and only one quote and two paragraphs supporting the cuts for food stamps.The writer could have easily avoided violating this yardstick by simply getting a couple couple more quotes from the supporting side or by cutting some of the quotes out of her final copy for the opposing side. In violating the seventh yardstick of fairness Lauren Fox's article also gives the impression that she opposes the cut on food stamps which violates the fourth principle of journalism which is "Independence". If the writer had simply fixed her errors in being unfair it would have also eliminated the impression that she wasn't being independent.