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.