blog eight... on time for the first time in a while!

As television changes, the networks must adapt to everything that comes with it. People don't want to sit around watching commercials all the time, but if the networks say that "oh, the commercials are only sixty or ninety seconds long" maybe, just maybe, someone will sit down and watch. But why? It's not like commercials are generally five minutes long. You can still get up and get stuff done during the commercials. Maybe, if it gets ridiculous enough, the networks will take out advertisements all together, except for right before and right after a program. That'd be great. But with TiVo and DVR, you basically skip the commercials anyway, if you're patient enough to wait for the recording to be done. But like I said earlier, you can do anything during the commercials, no matter how long or short they are. Like what I'm doing right now, I'm writing this blog and watching TV. It's pretty convenient to have a break from the intense shows. I think that eventually there will be one big MEGA NETWORK! and they will own all the other baby networks. I imagine one single channel, but you pick out whatever shows you want, at anytime of the day. It would be like a super TiVo; all you would have to do is pick out the shows you like, and it will record everything for you. Basically, you buy the seasons of all the shows you want when you purchase your TV. Eventually it could become cordless and portable. Sounds cool. Now I really want one.

blog seven.

I just think I'm going to skip this one. Supposedly it's the easiest, but it's not like I'm going to get any more points now that it's ridiculously late. Oh, well.

blog six.

I think that product placement is an excellent way to get product noticed. It is more of a subliminal advertisement, and sometimes that is nicer than shoving something under a consumer's nose. It is not as obnoxious as the infomercials with the ridiculous black and white introductions. But as the clip was showing, there are some instances on when product placement can get a bit ridiculous. They were mainly doing a parody of when the product placement advertisements may not be as subliminal as, say, a character drinking a Pepsi or a Coca-Cola in a scene. Uhm... I'm not sure what else to say on the subject, mainly because I'm too stressed out from stupid prom planning. I'm sure I have more to say, but I just need some ideas from other people, so I'm guessing that the discussion in class is going to be a lot better than this blog. I'm sorry I suck at remembering blogs and being serious.

blog five. ...oops. haha.

Basically, the blogs used in today's society use a lot of sex appeal. Generally this is aimed towards the male side of the population, but it is also curbed to the women. It seems as though a lot of the ads are flashy, in order to get a person's attention. They are usually short, and to the point, because stereotypically, Americans are dumb, and need everything in layman's terms. And they want the latest and greatest version of everything - - even if they just got an earlier version five minutes ago.

blog number four.

The media has a great amount of impact on how women view men, how men view women, how women view women, and how men view men. It is quite astounding that the majority of people have not learned how to think for themselves, instead they keep relying on the media to tell them what to say, what to do, and how to act.
From my personal experiences, I am supposed to view women as "not good enough" for anything. They are supposed to stay in the kitchen, cook the food, clean the house, and make babies. I am supposed to view men as "bread winners" and that they should do all the manual labor. It seems as though men are supposed to compete against each other to win the hearts of their surrounding peers, they have to fight to be king of the hill.
I find it ludicrous for people to stay inside the lines of what media has drawn. I, myself, hate to be part of the stereotypical side of media. I have never accelled at cooking, I hate to clean (who doesn't, though?), and I am definitely not one to dress up for many occassions. What does this make me? Am I not good enough for anyone to choose me to "bring home to mother"?
I honestly think that if people cannot take each other for who they are, and use their talents to better this world, then our world is doomed. If we cannot band together and work together, we will never be able to get along, and that will cause the the world, as a society, to collapse due to too many stereotypes and lack of communication due to judgements.

blog number three.

A television show that I tend to watch most often is NCIS. This is basically CSI:, only connected with the Navy and other government officials. This show displays many American core values, if not all of the ones listed on our worksheet.

Achievement and Success: The people in the show work hard at their investigative careers to try to "put the bad guys in jail".

Activity and Work: They continually keep working at their job until everything is completed. They never give a "half-assed" job.

Efficiency: The people in the show work as a group to get the detective work done sooner and more quickly.

Progress: They use the most up-to-date technology to get the work done.

Individualism: Each character on the show has their own unique personality, such as Ducky, the man who disects the dead bodies, and Abbey, the lady who works with the fingerprints and computer work.

blog number two.

After viewing the video, it has become more clear to me how much advertising there is within one person's life. With the Super Bowl just being held yesterday, advertisement was more for entertainment, whereas most days it is simply advertisement. Just as it is for the Super Bowl, for children these days the labels on each product send more subliminal messages than anything else. It's ridiculous that people of today's society are so submursed in the ads that they only go for the brand names when they go shopping. You can get the same thing, for a cheaper price, somewhere else. Half the time, when you buy a product, all you are paying for is the label. The children of today are going to grow up, not knowing how to think for themselves, not understanding how to compare products and seeing which one has the better deal. They are only going to care about who has what, and when can I get it. The problems are already starting to develop, especially in young children because if they cannot have what everyone else has, then they will start to cry.

I think society, as a whole, needs to come together and figure out a way to end this problem. It may not be as important of an issue as other problems in the world, such as war and economics, but it is still one that needs to be sorted out, in order to help the people of tomorrow.

blog number one.

So, basically, everyone I had interviewed said that media was just the news you can find all over. Most of them had used the television and the internet as their resources. A couple of the interviewees had very little insight on what media was, while the other two had more of a detailed definition. It seems like no one really knew the true definition of "media". (Unless, of course, they had already taken media literature as a class)

For the impact of media, the answers were almost completely identical. Every person said the media carried important information. The rest of the answers varied slightly. Two people said it shared news from the entire world, while one said that the media showed biased arguments, and that the newspaper and Internet held the best information because it was able to present both sides of the arguments.

On whether or not each person could survive without media, each person basically came up with their own answer, but in the end it all pointed towards a no. The older the interviewee, the more knowledge they had on the subject of media. The oldest person that was interviewed gave, in my opinion, the best insight: "I've never tried to live without media, so I couldn't tell you whether or not it would be possible, in this day and age, to survive without it."