http://dreaminreality14.blogspot.com/2014/11/wave-3-news-coverage-overall.html
Laurie, over at her blog Dream into Reality, has made a great overall review for the online stories of Wave 3, during our study. She was tasked with investigating the website, and was provided us with a good view on Wave 3's net side. Now she has created a tell-all post on what she thought about them, which I imagine will provide good information for myself, and everyone else involved in our project.
Laurie's writing is well done and considerate, taking into account Wave 3's strengths and weaknesses in journalism. She also takes Wave 3's online portion into context with their television section, providing both parallels and comparisons. As I have said before, Laurie's blog is worth checking out, and if you want a different perspective on this project, I implore you to go check out her's.
In relation of my personal open on Wave to her's, I feel that I agree with her on the points she brings up. Like I said in my last Wave 3 blog post, I think that they have problems proportionally reporting stories, based on their relevance. From what she says about the website, it seems to follow this assessment to a greater extreme. They seemingly inject dozens of crime stories into their website, outnumbering all other stories, as a way to gather more views and shares. With this information, I think it could greatly reinforce the essay I will write, and perhaps the essay's of my fellow classmates.
Saturday, November 8, 2014
Tuesday, November 4, 2014
television to 'feelies'
Recently, I've been thinking a lot about my classes discussion on television, it's rise and descent as a mass media. I've also just finished the satirical Utopian science fiction novel: Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley. It's clear to see that, while we were discussing the influence of visual's on human minds, I could find quite a few parallels.
The society of Brave New World, is a society of institutionalized commercialism, developed for the ultimate amount of consumption, conformity, and established economic class system's. In the book, they refer to their primary form of entertainment as 'feelies', shows devoid of interpretation, controversy, and overall artistic value, only driving in societies conditioning. I believe that Aldous didn't make similarities between these 'feelies' and television by accident.
While, television isn't institutionalized or devoid of any artistic value, it does work to create an image for the common people to compare themselves to. We often confuse the enticing images on television with real life, and often use it's influence as a reference point when we lack better information. The inherent lack of homosexual's, women, and POC's on television will lead to a lack of reference for people within these groups and other's. And the reference's people are given are often negative and stereotypical.
The society of Brave New World, is a society of institutionalized commercialism, developed for the ultimate amount of consumption, conformity, and established economic class system's. In the book, they refer to their primary form of entertainment as 'feelies', shows devoid of interpretation, controversy, and overall artistic value, only driving in societies conditioning. I believe that Aldous didn't make similarities between these 'feelies' and television by accident.
While, television isn't institutionalized or devoid of any artistic value, it does work to create an image for the common people to compare themselves to. We often confuse the enticing images on television with real life, and often use it's influence as a reference point when we lack better information. The inherent lack of homosexual's, women, and POC's on television will lead to a lack of reference for people within these groups and other's. And the reference's people are given are often negative and stereotypical.
Sunday, November 2, 2014
Wave 3 Watch: looking back
Well, October is over, and we have finished our examinations on local news networks. This project has given me a better sense of journalistic proceedings on television, and how many different stations handle these proceedings, in better and worse ways. Soon I will compose a essay based upon our finding's, but I thought I could look back on my first time watching Wave 3, and compare it to my most recent post.
The top story of that day was the Fern Creek High school shooting, the first actual shooting in JCPS history. They spent the majority of the 6 o' clock news, and most of the days news on that breaking story. While they sometimes had to add filler during proceeding's, this was a good example of when extended news stories are warranted. Unlike the Ice Bucket Challenge accident, which had occurred quite a while back, this had happened only a few hours ago, and people were not only interested in the scene, it could importantly inform us on what had happened, and the implications of it.
Now, reexamining, I believe that Wave 3 did fairly well as a news channel, and only fell into the wider pitfalls of modern news, and only in the shallower parts. They still had a fair abundance of crime stories, and would sometimes put interest over importance, but overall, Wave 3 seemed like a more optimistic version of the local news channels most people are used to.
The top story of that day was the Fern Creek High school shooting, the first actual shooting in JCPS history. They spent the majority of the 6 o' clock news, and most of the days news on that breaking story. While they sometimes had to add filler during proceeding's, this was a good example of when extended news stories are warranted. Unlike the Ice Bucket Challenge accident, which had occurred quite a while back, this had happened only a few hours ago, and people were not only interested in the scene, it could importantly inform us on what had happened, and the implications of it.
Now, reexamining, I believe that Wave 3 did fairly well as a news channel, and only fell into the wider pitfalls of modern news, and only in the shallower parts. They still had a fair abundance of crime stories, and would sometimes put interest over importance, but overall, Wave 3 seemed like a more optimistic version of the local news channels most people are used to.
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