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http://blsj1.blogspot.com/2013/09/will-lake-being-little-harsh-on-syria.html

Yeah sure I might agree somewhat with this classmate of mine but I totally disagree with most points they made. First you obviously had to look at the original blog on Will's page which is also found on the link above ^^. But heres the thing, his blog didn't say anything about attacking Syria because they annoy us, his point was to say we are confused whether or not to attack them because of the chemical warfare usage. His blog was well written and had all information needed. This blog by Brigid was completely off track. I don't think she got the point. I'm not trying to bash her or anything, I'm just saying that she didn't understand what will was trying to say. That ties into our section about mass communication also, by this being an example of a filter in the decoding stage. She just didn't quite understand what was being said, or trying to understand. But back on the main idea that pushed me to blog about this situation. What I'm not entirely sure about is how Brigid thought this was harsh. Maybe it's sensitive subject, I'll never know.

Class Reponse: Magazines (J1)

Magazines, magazines, magazines. How wonderful they are! Even though they are marketed toward certain niches now they are still great resources for reports and fun to read. Some being informational and other for entertainment. They had first introduced investigative reporting, personality profiles, and photojournalism. It's amazing how a single magazine can include all of them though. Journalists, though, have to be watchdogs for the whole world, whatever nation that they are in or working for. This includes doing investigative reporting and personality profiles because the require lots of work. Anyway, at first I didn't really understand the points of having these purposes for magazines. I still really don't but they make more sense now because it makes sense to report like that and dig deeper for more articles. That's sort of on the topic of newspapers and writing. So on the topic of magazines they were the very first type of national media and are a very large part of mass communication. They communicate to almost every one who sees them and read them. With most truth and some interesting loops in them they communicate to all. That I do understand though.

Class Response: Parts Of A Newspaper (J1)

When we learned about the parts of the newspaper I didn't really understand why we have so many and how we actually use them all. But sitting down looking at a newspaper and seeing which parts are which it makes complete sense now why there are so many and how we use them. They keep everything organized. It's amazing of what they can do. And because every paper had each of these parts you can look on any paper that is published and find out where the parts are and how they are used. Mr. Miller did a great job explaining how they pertain to what we are learning about because what came next in the curriculum was magazines. Magazines tie into how articles are placed and published, also with photojournalism. The parts of newspapers also seem important to know because if you were to write an article that was going to be printed you would want to know where it was going and how to write it pertaining to how many people read it or if you want more people to read it while gaining credibility.

Classmates Blogs (J1)

http://insertcleverwebaddresshere.blogspot.com/ This response from another one of my classmates was actually a good, thought of point to. I am also a huge fan of almost any kind of music and when I read this, everything from the previous lecture just clicked. She has a point of making the mass communication of music more descriptive and that a larger audience can understand. To paraphrase what the lecture was about, it was about how music changes over the years and how when recordings finally were invented how it changed so much. Now people can share recording and it's a form of mass communication because it can travel through space and time, unlike older days when you could only hear the music or voices live and in person. I though she made a very good point of this. I had totally forgot and yet didn't quite understand how this effected so many things throughout out history.

Classmate Blogs (J1)

http://mallorysiegenthalerj1.blogspot.com/ I like how my classmate brought up the points of newspapers. I never really thought about it like she had. So when reading this class response it gave me a new perspective. When she mentioned the parts of the newspaper, I totally forgot about those. They really are important though and it's a clever way to put articles in that format. It makes it very easy to read. I personally like all the things she brought up in the response too because they helped me understand more of what the lecture was about and how to bring into todays terms with reading the daily paper and how to go about it.

Class Response: Binary Models (J1)

It's okay that most all binary models that are hot-cool are related. Even though they are they all are still different from one another.
 The main binary model that forms the others is hot-cool. Then branching from that is information-entertainment and elitist-populist. What confused me in the first place is what makes them different. Information-Entertainment falls under elitist-populist though. What elitist companies do is that they want people to know what they should. It's entirely what they think you should know and not much (if any) of what you don't need to know. It's usually news stations that are elitist. They don't care for money, they just want to get important points across. Elitist is NEEDING not wanting. The populist side is for entertainment only pretty much. These companies want money and that's why they are in business. They share un-important information, what you WANT but may not necessarily need.
 Information is elitist and entertainment is populist. I finally understand and when you do it's like something clicks and you know all the answers. And when you think about it for a while you start to question why do we even promote or watch these3 things. Well it's because we care and want to know. Humans are curious, even though curiosity killed the cat, we want to know what's happening in our world today. So I did a little experiment myself. I found it to be true that entertaining shows and channels were a lot easier to stay with than informational shows or channels unless they are showing something that really interests you.
 I also think that how the elitist-populist binary works is really cool. But then there is another model that doesn't really fall under the elitist-populist model. That would be the content-distribution model. This one is different by it relating a lot to the process of mass communication. Content being original thought of ideas which is part of the stimulus and encoding steps. Then distribution being distributing those ideas in content which is part of the decoding and transmission steps. I don't really understand this one as much. Why would we need to learn about it when it's common sense? Honestly, I have no idea. But now pondering upon it, I see the relation to the other binary models. Yet, what do they have in common to mass communication? Aha! See, they all require the steps to mass communication for us to know about them. You can find those is my other post on this blog. But now I see why they are so important to understand so you can relate them to other things.

Class Response: Mass Communication (J1)

Honestly I have to say that mass communication is pretty cool, considering all that goes into it. With the many forms then how you have to comprehend the infromation being spread with the process of communicating.
 First having to think of something to share, in the stimulus stage. Next encoding so your audience can understand. Then sending the message out into the world in many different ways that is technologically imputable as the transmission phase. Then decoding it to understand the message and finally, internalization when you don't memorize what you read but you understand it enough so that you can remember the purpose of it in the first place.
 This was very interesting to me because you know everything has a catch. With these steps to mass communication there are filters and impediments to disrupt the process. Internal filters such as physical disabilities, informational things like a language it's in, and physiological things that go along with personal beliefs/attitudes. Then there are the external impediments, which can include environmental noise, channel noise, and semantic noise.
 It's amazing how complicated it can be to get a message across to people all over the world through time and space. Seems to be more work than wanted by far. But after that the forms you can put your message in are almost endless.
Even though the lecture was kind of boring, once you think about it the options are endless of what can happen. It's really cool.

Navy Yard Shooting. Is It Really What You Need To Know? (J1)

Maybe everyone has heard about the Navy Yard Shooting in Washington D.C. by now. And it's a tragic thing that had happened that shouldn't have. But when you read articles or watch the news about it, shouldn't the information they give you be facts and be important? Well of course! I had ran over an article about this topic and this is what I found.
For one, the news report posted with the article had mentioned that 13 were killed during the shooting while the actual article had said only 12 were killed, along with many other websites and sources with articles on the same topic that were very similar. All had said 12 were killed.
This problem could easily be fixed by just finding out more specific details before writing or airing the story. Or the journalist could just look at others' articles they wrote and published.
In this story they had made the interesting important. There weren't enough concrete facts about what really happened, only what Alexis's life had been like with mental issues and physical traumas he lived through that might have attributed to why he went to the navy yard and shot. The important thing was where, why, how and what happened because of it. This article gave too much interesting that actually made the story boring and not enough fact.
NBC news should make sure their editor is looking over what stories are going out and the information that goes with them. It would make people more likely to read it more and also make the website more credible. This article was very unreliable.
The link is below to share or to compare to other articles.
http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/09/17/20542864-navy-yard-shooter-aaron-alexis-was-not-happy-with-america-friend-says