Will's Blog: Demassification

Check this guy out. thedovahkiinoflegend.blogspot.com. He has amazing blogs and he's the most reliable person I know regarding anything Journalism. In this entry he said, "So I suppose the question is, what will demassify the Internet?" and it really makes you think! What could possibly overtake the Internet? It's the largest form of mass communication the world has ever seen! It's getting more updated and better everyday and it's hard to believe to think anything could ever do it. Bu, I'm sure people said that about TV, didn't they?o 

Sam's Blog: Response to Magazines Lecture

Check out Sam's blog! He has great entries and good points. I particularly liked his blog on magazines. I agreed with everything he said and kind of made me think about some things. When he said, "It was a 'that makes perfect sense' moment", I agreed whole heartedly! If you want to learn about some history of Journalism, go look at his blog! http://samwinreallife.blogspot.com/

Newspapers

Have you ever thought, "Why do people still publish and buy newspapers? There's TV, it's much easier." Well, there's multiple reasons newspapers are still around and successful.
1. It's diverse: meaning there's something for everybody.
2. The physicality: meaning you can carry it around with you all day and read what you want, instead of sitting down at a certain time and watching things you don't care about until the big story at the end airs.
3. It's non-linear: Non- linear means you can read what you want, in the order you want. You could read the sports section, the skip to the Arts & Literature section. You more than likely won't read everything that's in the newspaper, because they don't interest you.
4. The cost: They're cheap! You can walk into a gas station and buy The Courier Journal for probably 50 cents! A lot of people don't have the money to spend on cable, the TV or computer, or on Internet. It all adds up to a huge bill a month, while they can get everything they want to read for probably $5.00 a week (considering that the Sunday paper is probably around $1.50- $2.00).
There's still plenty of reasons, but i think those are four of the biggest reasons they're still popular today.

Books

Wow! Imagining how different the world would be if Guttenburg had never invented the first movable type printing press is really amazing. There would pretty much be no public education, no maps, extremely low literacy rate, less spread of science and inventions, and there's still more things that wouldn't be the same. WE wouldn't be the same if Guttenburg didn't invent the movable type printing. Even if you someone like me, who doesn't love reading, you still have to appreciate books and literature because the whole world would be completely different.

Demassification

In my opinion,  demassification is interesting because it really completely changes/changed everything. What would the world be like if magazines were never demassified by television? What if the Internet never came along to demassify television? Everything in the world could be 100% different because we're so accustom to the internet being the biggest form of mass communication. What if neither TV or the Internet came along and magazines were still the most popular and biggest form of mass communication?

Conglomeration

Before I came to J&C, I had never heard of, or even thought about conglomeration. It's really interesting thinking about how many people conglomeration can really effect, and the pros and cons. For example, a pro could be more money made by a company. While a con could be less jobs because there would be less need for that job when a single company owns all of that one thing.

Media Critique- Dog Ziggity: New Jersey's Own Hot Dogs

When you go to NYTimes.com, you probably don't expect to find a two page article regarding hot dogs in New Jersey. About a reporter driving through New Jersey for a day, stopping at twelve major hot dog restaurants. The first Yardstick of Journalism is Newsworthiness. Ballpark food around New Jersey and how they're all different does not qualify as "newsworthy."Considering that New York Times is probably the most well known newspaper in America, it's strange that they would have an article about a topic like this. They have articles involving things like shootings around the New York Region, then they have this. For something to be newsworthy, it has to have a lasting effect on a lot of people. Really, this doesn't have even a small effect on anybody. The owners of the hot dog joints most likely thought it was amazing to be mentioned in a story on NYTimes.com, but the chances are they didn't gain much business out of it. Now don't get me wrong, this is a good article. But it's a good article on a not-so-good topic. They went so out of their way to write the best article possible, and they succeeded in writing a quality story. In fact, they made the article easy to read and interesting. In the story it says, "The trip by rental car covered 270 miles, 12 hours and 12 hot-dog emporiums..." Hopefully Robert Seitsema LOVES hot dogs, because that's quite a lot of traveling to do for a food that you can make in less than five minutes at home. I think the only thing helpful in this is some good things to try on a frank next time you have one. There's nothing really that could improve this piece, because the article isn't the problem. The best way to improve it would probably be not to write it.