Defining The News

News today is very simple, as it was thirty years ago. It only takes a few things to make news, News. The things that do this are whether its timely,compelling,shocking, and many more. You always see sad stories and and the death rate on anything because people are obsessed with bad news. Another thing you will always see is a success story or something like that because everyone always wants to feel good about something too. So basically you have to die or become rich or sometimes even safe peoples lives to be considered for the news.

One problem i see within the news today is conglomerates. That's one man or one company owning all the news stations or newspapers. That's bad because then only a few people can decide what to tell people and what not to tell people. But one thing that news does do for our country today is, its the watchdog. When i say its the watchdog i mean it keeps people in check and exposes the corruptness of people within politics and other things.

Wikipedia Blog

I feel that wikipedia does have some good guidelines right now, but some are to strict. Even though your suppose to say everything in a neutral non partisan way, some things should be said just straight out. For instance America being the only country to use the nuclear bomb. That's a fact so it should be said.So basically if i could change anything about wikipedia it would be just relaxing some of the rules and guidelines it already has, there always should be a little wiggle room for things.

For our in class wiki i think everyone should just do whatever they want. Even though this is an unorganized way of doing things, it gives people that are interested in certain things a chance to talk about them. I know sometimes when people are assigned to things that they don't like, they usually don't write or find out as much as they could about it. But if that system or way fails then we should be assigned a topic so that every category gets filled.

Wiki is sufficient for getting the information across. We don't need another social networking structure to get info around.

Print Ad Questions 1 &2

My message behind my print ad is very simple.Its my feelings toward the Apple ads. In my print ad theres the apple guy saying hes a mac and i have an UFC fighter saying hes a PC. Now if you knew nothing about apple or mac who would you go for?a nerdy looking guy or some tough guy. So my message is that you can sell anything as long as you get the right person to market it. I'm also making fun of the apple ads because i feel there dumb. This ad i feel would be effective to many because it would create humor. No questions other than will people understand this ad? came to mind as i moved from concept to design.

I've learned that when advertising is done correctly, it can be very effective. The parody was fun to do because whenever you make fun of something, it always funny. I've also learned that in advertising theres almost no ethics. People are always looking for new ways to create drama or jerk on feeling of some sort in any way possibly to get people talking. In good ways or bad ways, it doesn't matter to the companies as long as there being talked about.

Social Networking

Social networking within Facebook and Myspace i feel does have a huge effect upon the political campaigns during this years election. This election is very different from others in the past because of all the new technology, blogs, and all the networking among people. These types of networking are very important because millions of people go onto them everyday. If they see advertising and endorsements of a certain candidate every single time they log on, it will start to stick in there head.

In Facebook theres so many options that categorize people. You have all the personal preferences of people within there profile. There race,religion, age,where they live, and even there political views. With all this information I'm sure that campaign mangers see that and try to target people through the use of this social networking tool. Also many people on these networks blog and talk about politics and why they feel one is better than the other.

Since Obama is so popular among young people i feel that these sites are helping him out more than ever. Lets face it young people talk a lot and like to be heard, so natural they will get it out fast because most older people don't take part in this social networking called Facebook.It should be an interesting anyway this November to see how everything plays out.