Wednesday, September 19, 2012

Page One: Inside The New York Times

News media has changed from being in newspapers and trying to get the story out first before the other newspapers and having the biggest story out there. We barely see newspapers around anymore; TV news stations have taken over newspapers and actually news magazines too.



Facebook and Twitter have taken over the media on vthe internet, espically Twitter. On Facebook all the news stations have facebook pages now so even if you miss the TV news you can always go on facebook and find out the latest hard hitting news that happened in your area. You can also just go on facebook and know the news before it hits the TV news at night. On Twitter people are always constantly updating what they see, hear, and experience.

 
 In the movie Page One: Inside The New York Times, they talked about how if you were a journalist and didn't have a Twitter than you weren't hitting the news first. Also when you're a journalist you have to go searching for the news on the internet, out in the world, just whatever it takes to be the one who finds the stories first. For example in the movie there was a story on youtube that was filmed and it was "hidden" so the journalist had to go in search for this story on youtube. The internet helps them find their hard hitting stories.

Monday, September 17, 2012

The Walt Disney Company

Walt Disney, we've all heard of him, watched his films, his TV shows, and been to his parks, but do you know the company and the current holdings of the company and what all is involved in the company? Well for starters, the Walt Disney Company is most commonly referred to as just Disney as we most know. The Walt Disney Company is used for entertainment purposes such as movies, TV shows, characters, theme parks, etc. What most people probably don't know is Disney is divided into four major business segments: Studio Entertainment, Parks and Resorts, Consumer Products, and Media Networks. Disney has also spread to several different corporations for example some of the corporations that Disney is apart of are ABC, ESPN, A&E networks, and ABC Family. The company also owns 14 theme parks around the world. Walt Disney is the largest diverse family entertainment and media enterprise. And of course, we all know mickey mouse is the official mascot of Walt Disney.





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Some good aspects of the Walt Disney Company are their spectacular films, hit TV shows, catchy songs, and adorable characters such as mickey mouse and minnie mouse. Disney has been around since the 1923. It is very well known and is possibly the most popular company in today's world, because it is known worldwide.


Some bad aspects of the Walt Disney Company is that there were several conspiracy theories about Disney having sexual innuendo or references hidden in some of their animated movies. Some of the Disney movies included The Lion King, The Little Mermaid, Aladdin, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, and Disney's orininal home video releases of The Rescuers.

 

Sunday, September 9, 2012

Television News and Public Opinion

The viewers of TV news are influenced by political perspectives they see on the news because political campaigners use the news and media to destroy their opponents in the election. For today's Preseidental election between Obama and Romney they agrue and bash each other all the time. They are trying to get ahead in the election. So people who are for Romney and against Obama will most likely believe anything the Republican party has to say about Romney and whatever they have to say about Obama.

 
 I was listening to The Bert Show one day on the way to school and they played back a speech that Michelle Obama had made the night before. It gives you a new outlook on the Obama family and mainly Michelle Obama herself.
The Bert Show on Q100 talks about Michelle Obama's DNC speech














I watch the news but I don't really care for the election, I feel like you don't really know who is running to be President unless you go to one of their meetings held. You can't really know them because the news only shows them bashing each other. So yes I feel like viewers on TV news are influenced.