1. I don't think that television itself is as big a deciding violence factor alone as economic poverty, bad schools and broken homes. I think that having a violent life path requires some combination of all of these things; kids who grow up ONLY watching violent programs on television are probably a lot less likely to be violent themselves than kids who watch violent programs on television, are beaten by their parents, and go to a school where violence and bullying is the norm.
2. The article states that promotions feature violence because they only have a very short time to capture the viewers attention. Violence and sex require the least amount of time to explain a plot, and are also to a lot of people the most interesting. I think that the largest reason they feature violence in promotions is because shows like sit-coms, soap-operas, and situation dramas like Law & Order can attract some viewers that wouldn't normally be interested in watching the show by prefacing it to sound like there's lots of scandalous sex and violence.
Thursday, April 28, 2011
Thursday, April 7, 2011
Is Mainstream News Dead?
1. I think that most television new is dead; my best guess as to why is because probably more and more people are getting sick of hearing the same 5 irrelevant and incredibly manipulated stories over and over again. Maybe people are also realizing that some of the biggest news stations aren't exactly the most reputable sources for daily news.
2. To get my daily news, I listen to privately funded radio programs, like NPR; I've found that though maybe they are slightly liberally biased, they have the highest amount of world news, covered in probably the least biased way possible. Also NPR does BBC Hour and BBC World news; both programs are more than likely the least biased source for news I've ever heard.
3. I think that the Daily Show and the Colbert Report are so popular with younger generations because most of the news that's on regular news shows is so depressing. It's good to be able to laugh at something serious. I'm not sure that those shows are the best way to actually learn about news, since most of the time they don't give the full story (a lot of it is just making fun of how other news programs covered it), but if that's all the news you can stand I suppose it's better than being completely uninformed (however if that's all the news you listen to you might be gullible and fall for some of the made up facts about the story John Stewart and Stephen Colbert add for humor purposes, so you might be a little worse off thinking that some things they say are true). Basically it's best to have more than one news source, even if one isn't really exclusively for information purposes.
2. To get my daily news, I listen to privately funded radio programs, like NPR; I've found that though maybe they are slightly liberally biased, they have the highest amount of world news, covered in probably the least biased way possible. Also NPR does BBC Hour and BBC World news; both programs are more than likely the least biased source for news I've ever heard.
3. I think that the Daily Show and the Colbert Report are so popular with younger generations because most of the news that's on regular news shows is so depressing. It's good to be able to laugh at something serious. I'm not sure that those shows are the best way to actually learn about news, since most of the time they don't give the full story (a lot of it is just making fun of how other news programs covered it), but if that's all the news you can stand I suppose it's better than being completely uninformed (however if that's all the news you listen to you might be gullible and fall for some of the made up facts about the story John Stewart and Stephen Colbert add for humor purposes, so you might be a little worse off thinking that some things they say are true). Basically it's best to have more than one news source, even if one isn't really exclusively for information purposes.
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