Wednesday, December 14, 2011

3.3a Consider the Ethics of News Reporting

What does the role of censorship play in the news? Censorship is a huge way of filtering, changing view points, or even controlling the news.
  The government is the best example for this topic, in the United States they never will show their soldiers who have died being brought home. Even other country's like China and Iraq, they are cutting off the freedom to know what happening in their country and even around the world. I believe that if the people don't see the wrong of what they do how can they learn and fix it and make sure it does not carry on to the next generation. If someone was accused the public should know the whole story but it should never be one sided. In the code of ethics it even says we have to like:

  •  Give voice to the voiceless; official and unofficial sources of information can be equally valid.
  • Identify sources whenever feasible. The public is entitled to as much information as possible on sources' reliability.




Thursday, October 27, 2011

1.4 Global Cuture and Sterotypes

            Our many nations have many different cultures and ways that always have different meanings to other people. For example the word "fag" in Canadian English is meant usually as a offensive term meaning used as a disparaging term for a homosexual man, and in British English the word means a student at a British public school who is required to perform menial tasks for a student in a higher class.
            Other media gets posted on the web in places like "Youtube" and their meaning will look different to someone in a different country, province, or state. Another example for this is a "KFC" commercial looks like a white man is calming down a bunch of rowdy black people with a bucket of chicken. The true meaning to the commercial is that the white man is at cricket match and he just pulled out the bucket of chicken to stop them from cheering for the team he is against. We all just need to look at it from that cultures perspective instead of freaking out right away and calling it racist or sexist. This is also a idea that shows that countires should be more open to learning not just about their own but around the world!

Friday, September 23, 2011

Profile of a Media Consumer


Sun
Mon
Tues
Wed
Thurs
Fri
Sat
Net
5
3
3
3
3
4
7
F-book
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
V-Games
6
0
1
1
2
5
6
Music
5
3
4
3
3
3
5
Movies
4
2
2
2
2
4
5

 I spend most my time on the interent because it is my major souce for entertaiment, how to do homework, and see the news but isn't my favorite choice. My favorite would be playing video games because it is fun and is like a book and takes me away from reality and puts me in a different body or soul.