Monday, April 6, 2009
fill me in!
So since I wasn't able to attend class today, I was hoping everyone would be able to fill me in! I know the blog has been rather lame lately...but I'm going to try to kick it up so you guys can get some extra participation points! It would be great if everyone could leave a comment talking about something we went over in class. You don't have to summarize it all, but a paragraph or so will do.
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I really liked the topics we went over in Monday's class. We were discussing the different news values and what makes stories newsworthy. One of the news values we talked about was simplification. This value can be seen when watching the news especially when it comes to complicated stories about the economy or war. Simplification is making the news story understandable by all audiences. The news companies don't want to lose their audience's attention by using complicated terms and topics. But by using simple language and short clips, people stay tuned it to the story. Simplification also involves something known as binary oppositions. These follow the idea that crime stories emphasize a right and wrong, a good and bad, and sometimes a black and a white. Binary oppositions can be made more evident by using certain images and different words.
ReplyDeleteyeah, I would have to agree with Laura...I really liked what we talked about on Monday. I've never really thought about what makes something newsworthy or not. When I thought about it at first, it made me question if it's media shaping society, or society shaping the media...maybe this isn't really a valid question, but it was one that popped in my mind...what does everyone else think?
ReplyDeleteI found Monday's discussion to be very interesting. I feel that a lot of what we see on the news is false advertisement. I feel that the news always tries to use flashing headlines and words that will grab ones attention, instead of presenting the story the way it truly happened. I feel that talk shows like Nancy Grace really drag out specific news stories and always flash headlines that are new updates to a story when it is the same news just represented in a different way in hopes that you will watch. I feel that the news reports on stories that scare the public and rarely report on the good that people do in society.
ReplyDeleteok - so everyone has seemed to hit the high points of our class on monday. I agree with everything that has been said so far.
ReplyDeleteI have to say that I really examined what was being covered in the news and what wasn't be seen since we started these conversations in class. A good example of this happened a few days ago. The news did a story on the captain who had been taken by pirates - it was approx a minute and a half or so long. Another story that they covered was that the Obama family finally picked out a dog. They continued their conversation on the dog, dog names, when it is arriving, how the family got the dog etc. for 10 minutes! Personally, I couldn't believe that they barely reported the captain story but the dog was worth their time.
I also enjoyed the topic of discussion on Monday. The news values are interesting and it is so easy to relate them to everything you see. Now when I watch news broadcasts all I can think about are the aspects of these values that it fits into.
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