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.