Response to Plagiarism Post On Jaylin Fartow's Blog

Jaylin Farrow made a post about Plagiarism on her blog. I really enjoy how she gave us a new outlook on the fact that people plagiarise everyday unknowingly. It made me realise how people plagiarise all of the time and don't even know it. We have to make sure to be super careful about plagiarism. You can see Jaylin's post here: http://jaytfarrow.blogspot.com/?m=1

Booooooooooooooooooooooooks man...

I have a bit of a bone to pick with Mr. Miller right now. Yes we learned about books and the printing press, but how did fictional stories become popular? how did Classic poetry and fiction books get spread to an audience? Were there publishing companies back then? What about graphic novels? These are just a few of the questions that I have for Mr. Miller about books. I do think that it was a good lecture, and yes I may have just wrote this because I wanted an excuse to say that I have a bone to pick, but these are real questions that I have and I hope they will be answered.

Response to "How Dare They?!' Post on E. Streeter's Blog.

E posted his media critique  about The article that CNN did on Ahmed, the boy that got arrested for bringing a clock to school. One thing I wanted to say about E's post though, was that he claimed it as non- newsworthy even though it is clearly newsworthy. This issue is not about the student, Ahmed, it is about blatant racism in our country's public schools. Especially around 9/11 and Islamic people. This story affects Islamic and brown-skinned people as a whole. (especially woman who wear hijabs, since they are more easily picked out and labeled as Muslim. So yes, although E may not have thought so, this story is clearly newsworthy.Here is a link to their blog post: http://paperboy-productions.blogspot.com/2015/09/how-dare-theydo-story-on-that-i-mean.html

News Media Critique- Buzzfeed News

Based on the seven yardsticks of journalism, all news articles are supposed to be newsworthy. A lot of Buzzfeed news articles though, are not.In fact, Buzzfeed does not even have a way to categorize they're different types of news on their news app. Technology news, celebrity news, and sports news are all jumbled together with breaking news and actual newsworthy topics. Because of this, they make it very unclear of what is newsworthy and un-newsworthy. Putting non-newsworthy with the newsworthy keeps people from focusing on the newsworthy and defies the seven yardsticks of journalism.

Magazines

Yesterday in Journalism 1, we learned about magazines. It was really cool to learn how magazines started out as a form of mass media that had something for everyone, considering how many trade and niche marketed magazines there are today.In retrospect, I think that if magazines remained a general mass media outlet, it would be a lot harder to gain information on topics of your interest.I wish we had learned more about trade magazines and niche marketing though. All we really learned about was they innovations that magazines created. Mr. Miller left out a very important piece of information, how did magazines become a niche market?

Mr. Miller's Views On Elitist And Populist Exsposed! (Wow I'm Bad at Titles.)

 Mr. Miller's lecture on elitist and populist companies was, in my opinion, a good lecture over all. As part of our binary models lesson, it provided a nice insight on the world of journalism and how companies work. One thing that I couldn't help notice though, was the way he portrayed populist news companies. Now I understand that yes, they are in it for the money, but that does not make them bad companies or the wrong type of journalism. He should have made this more clear in his lecture and given us a better understanding on how these types of news companies really work and the motives of why the singular reporter in said company would release articles or share news, not the company as a whole.