Defining the News

When I think of news I think of statistics,facts,information and even different opinions and views. I use the news for various things, sometimes for information and even for entertainment. It can help me settle an argument and help me form opinions. I usually watch the news and once in a while I will read a newspaper. When I decided if it's reliable or I not I do consider my source. I want to know where they got their infomation from. Usually I belive the news on t.v. and a fimilar newspaper. I sometimes become suspicious when its from other sources other then the ones I mentioned or when the whole story is based on opinion and the people telling the story seem unsure. Sometimes it can even be hard to belive the news on t.v and paper, and thats because I wasn't there so I don't know if a story is true or not I just have to be able to trust that source. The news in my opinion needs to sick to fact and not be so opinionated and do it to inform people not to pursude us.

Class Wiki

I think that we should have some type of organization and guidelines for the class wiki. We should each be able to choose what topic we want to work on and then someone from the group will edit the wiki. I don't think we should just be placed in a group because someone may not want to talk about a particular topic and be into something else. We should also have guidelines like the neutral point of view. We should all keep it to facts and not put are opinions on there. But lets also have fun with it and disscuss what topics we want on the wiki. Lets just have some type of structure but not be to strict and have fun with our class wiki!

Ads

#1 Our ad parody was a older woman trying to sell bud light beer. We were trying to make fun of the fact that on the majority of beer ads there is a beautiful female on the ad trying to sell the beer. The woman is suppose to attract guys to buy the beer, so we figured instead of a beautiful woman we would put a older woman on the ad. This way guys would see your not going to get a beautiful girl just because you drink bud light.

#2 I learned so much about advertising. I learned that it is hard for these people to try to come up with an ad that will actually sell their product. It was hard just trying to come up with an idea to make fun of something. I also didn't know there were so many steps you needed to take to come up with an ad. I actually had fun with the parody and learned so much from it.

Social Networking

When it comes to social networking and the big election, social networking has become very important. Especially on networks like myspace and facebook. You see pictures and videos, or you can even join groups. I took at look at myspace and right on the top bar there is a option that says Election '08. When you click on the icon you have a choice to click on a candidate, it will then direct you to that candidates own page. This can be so helpful especially when you want to
just see stuff about one candidate.

I also took a look at facebook, I am in the group call Barack Obama (One Million Stong). There are 771,762 members as of today. Just imagine how many connections there are. People using social networking to get their point across about who they want to win. Just by looking at these groups can make or break a candidate and help people makes their decisions.

On Monday Professer Troy Murphy made good points about social networking. He talked about MiVote and the reasoning for it. I personally think it's a great idea, if you want you opinion to be heard it's a good way. Now it may not be heard by who you want it to be heard by, but someone will listen. I also took a look at a couple of the sites on c-tools and while reading these articles I learned how big a difference social networking makes.

Social Networking is playing such an important role in this election and it's great. It makes more sense too, why stand on a corner yelling your views or trying to campaign when you can just put out a video. Even better you can go blogging and have a debate with someone. You might just learn something.