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Thursday, April 2, 2009

Does the media control sport stars?why?how?

control is the wrong word- i'd say interferes with the sports stars as they do with other celebrities. mostly because the media is 'gossip-hungry'.

Based on this, does it sound like I might be able to be a journalism major? thanks?

I'm a senior, and will be graduating in less than a month, and I'm going to community college for at least one year, probably two. Right now, I'm so confused, I'm an indecisive person and especially with this major stuff, because there's so many things I would be very interested in doing, but my question to myself is ' can I handle this and work at it through the thick and thin?'. I'm keeping journalism as one of my options right now. I was in a special 14 student writing class for 7th and 8th grade for 2 hours a day instead of one for people who had a knack for writing and it was one of the most fun experiences I've ever had. Throughout high school as well, my english teachers always told me I was good at writing and come up with some really good stuff. I feel like writing is one of the things that really works for me. If I were to do journalism, I would want to eventually do entertainment/celeb journalism. Do I sound right for this or are there other qualities that I really need to have? And I wasn't on newspaper in hs, and I was wondering if that would affect me.


Thanks to all.



One thing to keep in mind is college is a time for finding your strengths and interests. So yes keep your options open.


Yes you can go into journalism. The biggest difference between journalism and other forms of writing is the rules you need to follow. A basic news story needs to cover the 5 W's and H. That stands for who, what, when, where, how, and why. This information needs to be in the lead paragraph or in the first few paragraphs. Basically top heavy. Newspapers cut from the bottom up. Features (including entertainment) and magazine stories have different requirements and style. Even with the rules your style can come through.





As an entertainment reporter you'll need to cultivate sources in that industry.





In short to be a good jounalist you need to remember you are writing with certain goals in mind. You also need to be a people person. Best of luck.




you'll be FINE!!! If you enjoy writing...go for it! You sound like one of those students who come up with the most awsome essays and sentences, the teachers are jealous. You were in an advanced 14 student class.......???? That just screams with a huge neon light ************ GREAT WRITER COMMING THROUGH************** dont worry about the newspaper it wont affect you.





Make way...Journalist comming through :D

I need to come up with a newspaper front page masthead? this is not a headline.?

it needs to be original maybe a pun. its done in a group with the three of us. our initials are LC, AS and M-E B. i don't like anything like the lc, as and m-eb times.


please help me!



CLAMBS .......? ....... C.LAMBS

I have to write an article for my school magazine. Any ideas?

It's a once-yearly magazine published at the end of the year, sort of like the Yearbook that the Americans have only it's more like a magazine, full of articles, jokes, comic strips, that sort of thing. I've been asked to write an article and it can be on anything whatsoever, which is so broad that, naturally, I'm stumped. Can anyone help me?





Thank you!



Ask yourself what would you like to read in the magazine. That`s what you should write about.




Many students are doing the same on..... Rush Limbaugh.


Reason, the main stream media lies about him everyday.


Because the Obama administration told them to......


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Road side (bill boards) reading....


..."Don't listen to Rush Limbaugh"


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Obama said weeks ago......"Don't listen to Rush Limbaugh"


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Rush Limbaugh's show, is heard in 42 countries around the world, every week day. Via the live stream radio on the net.




Could interview students about what they would like to read in it or interview them about a change the school made and its effect on them/ the stress of standardized tests...




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maybe it would be a good idea to write about how the recession is effecting our nation.

Ideas for a feature article?

I would need good and interesting ideas for a feature article I am writing for English class. I have absolutely no ideas that come in mind :S





Thanks!



what about the 13 year old boy who robbed a bar




Why some popular people do "not good" stuff while the public's eyes are on them.

Do we need more violence and distateful content on the telly ?

has tv become sterile boring and over regulated? surely we need to open the flood gates and enjoy ourselves right?



Sex and drugs and rock n roll are very good indeed. Toss in a bit of excessive violence and you've erased the BBC.




I think we need less reality shows. Cause lets face it, there are far to many.





In answer to your original question... No




Watch ABC primetime.




yes




shameless is the best show on tv , its not for children though

Why, when talking about Michelle Obama..?

Is the topic always about what she's wearing?





Doesn't she have more to offer than good looks and fashion sense?





Waste of media coverage if you ask me.



You're right, she does have more to offer than that.





Unfortunately, it seems to be what people want to hear about.





Not you, not me, but people in general....




She'll probably take a back seat in politics like Laura Bush did. Then she'll get active in fundraisers and other interests.




I totally agree except I do not think she is good looking at all!




her good looks wont get her very far

WHICH do u think is better television news or newspaper?

Why?



television is good because of the visuals.. but newspapers are good for details. why not both?? if i had to choose one it would probably be tv because im a visual learner.

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Where can jade on for all her documentary on living TV or on which site do i need to go?





Thanks



Whats the question, in English

Should my disappointment in Obama Interupting The View This morning with his News Conference...?

Affect my vote if he runs again? I was perfectly happy watching Sean Astin's new Disney Playhouse Cartoon clip on The View this morning and BLAMMO!!!.. They cut into it to watch the news conference?





How rude can a president be?



omg!!!!





i called bill at work to bytch at him about it cuz obama interrupted all my children!!!!!





in the words from south park: 'the bastards!!!!!'




How sad for you that an episode of The View is more important than a presidential news conference. If this is how you treat important matters regarding the future of the country you live in then please don't vote at all.




Absolutely, Rude just plain rude. Don't vote rude.




Don't be so ridiculous - you shoulda been watching some good old trashy CBeebies from UK!




This isnt serious is it? Cause it really sounds like you have your priorities mixed up.




Well you know. He could have at least invited Sean Astin to the press conference.




Rookie mistake! He'll get better.




i got a call at 1:30 local from jen. she was screaming about him interrupting a soap oprea?????????

How did Matt Lauer of the Today Show hurt his arm?

Bike accident. Fell avoiding a deer.




I believe it was a biking accident. He hit a deer or something.




From repeatedly patting Obama on the back.

What did O

He said something about UPS, the ""It Happened to Alexa" foundation, Zucker (NBC guy) and GE guy Inman. Anyone know?



It said that they are funding groups like American Center for Progress and NBC who basically slandered It Happened To Alexis Foundation because they invited Bill to speak at their fundraising event. He said that he was dissapointed in UPS.




O'Reilly said to buy UPS stock and that Zucker and Inman made good investments in UPS.





He also admitted to having gay sex fantasies about Michael Moore and Rush Limbaugh.





Go figure.

One Show Dan Snow historian?

Just been watching the show and Snow tried to explain history to me a pleb from Bournemouth....but on at least one major historical point he got it wrong.


Henry took Hampton Court from Cardinal Wolsey BUT Wolsey though removed from power and up on charges of treason was not beheaded as Snow said.


Why, ohh why, ohh why do we have such useless presenters on the BBC.


They are too young,just out of school and cannot have the study or experience knowledge and good sense of someone who has actually studied their subject.


I think Cardinal Wolsey died of natural causes when he grew ill waiting for trial...and he was not beheaded.



You said the exact same thing my missus said watching the one show, all the kids in Britain think Henry the 8th cut everybody's head off due to bad history teaching. He only beheaded two of his wives. BBC knows as much about British history as i do as an Irishman.




Maybe he got one point wrong but I think he's pretty good. I particularly liked his 20th Century battle field programme co present with Peter Snow. So much so I wanted to buy it on DVD, though unfortunately they only had a book published.





Anyway, why not email the one show and tell them. Dan Snow can then retract that particular part.




You obviously know far more about this than I could ever hope to. The only thing that came to mind when I read your question was the fact that he got the job because his father was 'in the know'!





Same as the Dimblebys and on a lower level, the Holiins'. Then there's Eve Pollard and her daughter Claudia Winkleman.





Once someone gets a foot in the door, their family is made for life.

What can you do with an undergraduate english degree or as an english major for that fact?

What you major in in undergraduate school does not matter much. Just major in what you enjoy -- the key to college is just finishing any degree.





I have a History degree with English Minor. I am a financial analyst and all I did was take economics and 4 semesters of accounting as electives while I was in school.





A lot of jobs require that you write well. Technical Writing, Financial Writing, Law etc.





I have a friend with BA in English and Masters in nursing. She is an RN.





So take what you know you can enjoy and apply yourself to -- add in a few courses with practical skills and you will be set.




practice the following sayings





You want fries with that?





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Attention KMart Shoppers, Today's blue light special is....

Do you think bbc

No. Don't shoot the messenger even if you don't like the message. Truth hoirts.

How quick are you to believe what you hear/see in the media?

I'm taking a poll for a research paper. My paper is about if the rate of how quickly someone believes something on the media has really lessened since the "War of the Worlds" incident.





So, here's the question (and please answer honestly, no one knows who you are): Do you normally believe what you hear/see in the media? Not talking about tabloid rumors here, but like serious news. (like people thought "War of the Worlds" was.) Or do you question it, call around, research it, and find out what's really going on first? Or do you take it for what it says and go on?





Thanks in advance!



It depends what kind of news it is. If it's talking about some local issue, like a shooting, I'm pretty quick to believe it, although i know a lot of it is made up. I do try and think about it from the point of view of the people who are involved, and try to think of what might be the "hidden angle," though.





When it comes to something government, I usually just blow it off...


Unless it's something outrageous, like AIG executives using bailout money for their own million-dollar bonuses. When it's something like that, I don't care if it's completely true or not. Because chances are if it ain't AIG, it's someone else.




Most of it is propaganda, so I'm very skeptical of anything I hear on the news or read in a newspaper or magazine. I do a lot of research before believing anything.




I don't believe much in the news, it's a different story in every country




A grain of salt thing.

Anyone know the average age of Bill Oreilly

Sure- it's 60 years old, white, talks up family values, and will have a mistress or a prostitute on the side. But on the other hand I am not saying the democrats are any better.Obama can't fill his cabinet posts because everyone qualified has cheated on their taxes.




Six-and-a-half.





Actually, most of his audience either didn't complete high school or they dropped out of college.




Above average.




Well! You should be known as F for failure to be so insecure as you are.




you've steriotyped liberals as old stupid hillbillies. thats messed up dude




terrible twos throwing their tantrums!

How do i cite a source from Barackobama.com or Whitehouse.gov when there is no author?

Barackobama.com/education





or whitehouse.gov





How to cite when it only gives me a topic and no author.



Since there is no author you need to cite the web page "barackobama.com/education" or "whitehouse.gov". In your citation the "topic" would be in place of the author for alphabetizing your reference list. However, if this is for school work, you may want to ask your teacher because they may not want you to use a source with no author.




Don't worry, Joe Biden plagiarized it from somewhere.




its written by the devil himself.

Headlines you never see, why?

a whiteman has just shot dead 15 people...


my white housekeeper is really cool


a white women just saved a baby from a burning car


a white boy stole some sweets





when a news story involves a non 'white' person it is racialised (especially if it is a negitive story)


when a news story involves 'white' people it is never racialised.





this makes no sense whatsoever, it serves no purpose to the story other than lazy observation or in the daily mails case stiring up animosity within the population as a whole.





what'd you all think?



i know what you mean. people just don't seem to get that a criminal is a criminal regardless of skin colour. it doesn't matter. Someone on here asked "why weren't we told Fritzl was Jewish?"Because it doesn't and shouldn't matter. The guy imprisoned and raped his daughter for years producing children with her and then letting one of them die. Him being Jewish is about as relevant as what his favourite breakfast cereal is or whether he drinks tea or coffee. A criminal is a criminal.




I don't know what kind of newspaper you read but headlines hardly ever if at all tell the color. But pictures do, no need to mention.


As well, lots of positive stuff comes from non-whites in the media and still, no color is mentioned.




THINGS YOU ALSO WILL NEVER SEE





WHITE ENTERTAINMENT TELEVISION


MISS WHITE AMERICA


WHITE ONLY COLLEGE


WHITE ONLY SCHOLARSHIPS


WHITE ONLY GRANTS





LIST GOES ON AND ON AND ON





GET OVER YOURSELF




Just like





White Ars*peice Starts War


White Knobflick Creates Global Financial Crash


White Police Tasers Student


White Businessman Sucks bug brown cigar!


White Profiteers sucking Iraq dry





etc etc etc




I understand your point and it is a very good one.





If you saw a headline 'Man shoots 15 people dead"


Would you not automatically assume that the man was white?




Ambers Mate, i could not have put it better myself!!




I think people shouldn't listen to snaggled tooth Brits




I think all this 'racist' rubbish is just that. Who cares if the person is black or white. If you describe a perpetrator of a crime then colour is a distinguishing feature as much as eye colour, sex, height etc. If a black man has stolen a car then of course the police stop and question only black men. Simarly if a white man was seen stealing a car then there is little point in stopping a black woman. Someone I once knew in the police service got round this by calling everyone either dark green or light green. These days the only people that cant be discriminated against are white men. 'Black' is racist and 'Woman' is sexist. (you are only picking on my cos I am black/a woman)





Black boards are now Chalk boards. White boards are Marker boards. We have fire fighters, police officers. Man holes are inspection holes. People from Britain are 'Brits' but if you shorten the name of someone from Pakistan that is racist. We have no Golliwogs anymore when they were a fiction of Enid Blytons imagination and little figures on jam jars. Once upon a time we had black dolls (I have one and I am white) until we were told it was racist so they stopped doing them until the black children said they had no dolls to play with so that was racist and we had them once again. If you go to Jamaica then the black people are proud to be called black yet here if we mention what colour anybody is then the racist card is played.





Can anyone tell me why the police have an association of black police officers? There is not an association of white police officers.





I think the world has gone mad!!

What does this mean: Meinen Vaterland Meiner hausse und meine leibe!! It

Some krout bumb left this comment on my youtube page in relations to racism...i hate racism but this bastard was saying how they hang black folk in Germany in some towns over there. Can anybody can decipher?



translation: My homecountry, my house, my body

[Youtube.com/WhiteAwareness] Should I report them?

Its a youtube channel that shows and tells white people how to separate them selves from other races.Am white and am ashamed of the people in my race who think this way, I don't know about anyone else but I think it is wrong and it makes me sick to see some people really think about things this way.








Here are some of the things they tell people to do.





1) Do not embrace other cultures. This means dump the Rap crap & the non-white/ anti-white / white-corrupting garbage from your home & from your life. DO NOT LET YOUR CHILDREN IDOLISE NON-WHITES. Some might argue about freedom of choice on that, but would you allow them freedom of choice to "shoot-up" drugs in their bedroom? Turn off MTV, infact get rid of your TV altogether if you can.





2) Do not socialize with non-whites.





3) Homeschool your children. Supplement the curriculum with pro-White studies. Homeschool them with other homeschoolers, thus creating a mini White only school.





4) Don't fear being called 'racist' accept it with honour.





Those are only a few of the things the channel suggest you do.


If you think I should report them say so if you don't say no.



Racism is wrong, of course, and I don't think that this type of hate-mongering propaganda should be allowed on the Internet. You should report them, but YouTube might say that terminating that channel would violate the creator's right to free speech (even though their speech is disgusting and immoral). I'm not sure what YouTube's rules are regarding offensive content.




they already know.


BUT its called Freedom of Speech. You might not like the content but you have the right not to look at it.


Im not in favor of hate but freedom of speech is important.


The best thing you can do is to ignore it. By bringing it up you just gave people the idea to go and see it for them self.




Report them to who? Racists like Sharpton, Jesse Jackson or those pro illegal immigrant groups?

Are you sorry for the poor newspapers trying to dream up their April 1 spoof stories?

i haven't read a newspaper since 2002, and that was because i was waiting for someone and had to sit at Burger King for 2 1/2 hours and was almost bored to death.




I have one for them.


Katie Price will not be telling how she was raped and molested as a child or how she and Peter are not getting on and are not getting divorced or how she has not got a new perfume or under-ware brand to sell or how Peter has a fatal illness and how he has made a miraculous recovery or how she is the greatest of mothers to her kids or how she has had a porn film of her and Peter nicked or blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah.





Sorry tabloids its all a joke and she will be selling her stories as usual 24/7...................365 days a year




Newspapers? who reads them anymore? All biased and late news. Thanks Ben Franklin, but we destroyed your damn newspaper.





How about this: person under 65 reads newspaper!


Or "Lifestyle section used for something other than bird cage lining!




They've been making up spoof stories all year. April 1 will be a bit of an anticlimax.




No lol

This blog site seems to have a lot of right wing nut cases on it or am i being to sensitive.?

most of the answers i have received seem to have right wing talking points or sound bites on political questions. even many of the non political answers seen to lean that.



Both- Right wingers are passionate and LOUD! more so then those of us in the middle of the road.


But just keep in mind, opinions are like butts, most are not wanted seen in public or heard at all.


So gain a thicker skin and enjoy the ride.




This is not a blog site, it is strictly question and answer.


Since a question must seek knowledge or advice beneficial to all, majority of questions are violations of the guidelines. They are considered rants. Too many use it for a soap box and spout misinformation from all sides of the political arena. None ever back up their statements with proof.

Clue me in; what does Bruce Springsteen (sp) do at concerts that Bill O

He sometimes states his opinions on politics and current events, just like Bill O'Reilly does.




He and many other performers take the opportunity of a captured audience to orate on political matters. The complaint is most are uninformed and just parrot the party line.




Beats me. Springsteen is about as patriotic as you can get.




Springsteen is an America hater, and uses his talent platform to spew outhis hate. Stick to your day job, Bruce!




He speaks out against civil rights abuses...like torture..Bill Oreilly is for torture




Sing




run and slide toward a camera with his crotch while on his knees

Do you separate fact from fiction when watching tv or listening to radio?

I think no one can so how do you... and how can you relay those so called facts to people when you don't even know their true? In other words, do you ever follow up and see with your own eyes that what your hearing is true and if not then can't i assume that everything i hear is potentially garbage?



do you mean watching NEWS on tv? i know a lot of people now who refrain from watching news, me is one of them




You can safely assume everything you hear is potentially garbage. Nearly everything has a slant. Some is really correct, and some is just total and complete bias.





Consider the Rush Limbaugh CBS news report with Katie Couric. CBS made a big deal out of playing a segment where Rush says he wants Obama to fail. Interesting enough however, they only played half of the sentence... over and over and never completed the sentence beyond those words to include that RL wants Obama to fail if his agenda is to turn the US into a socialist nation.





They all do it. Whether it's liberal media or conservative media... take things out of context and feed it to the masses.





We still need Paul Harvey! To get the Rest of the Story...




I listen to all stations and NPR radio.





Then I attempt to filter out all the bias put forth as "News."





I just can't understand the apparent mindless people who believe what some "shock Jock," like that Rush guy, puts out as truth.





He and others of his ilk are after ratings. Nothing more, nothing less.





Stir the pot, get people to watch his show. Don't people understand this?

Miley Cyrus at KCA awards?

THE CRYING WAS SO FAKE!! SHE WAS LIKE ITS ALL THANKS TO YOU GUYS!!! oh my gosh



Don't be surprised if she appears at an AVN (Adult Video News)awards in a year under fake a ID or a free pass.




Question?




are you asking was it fake?...what are you asking?

Keith Olbermann, Sean Hannity...Bare knuckle fist fight?

Who would win?...why?



Hannity. He already beat the tar out of Chris Matthews with an impressive series of left jabs before finishing him off with a thundering right cross. Olbermann looks like he'd be heavy on his feet...easy pickings for the lightning quick "Hammer" Hannity.




I'd put my money on Olbermann. I've only seen the two of them in pictures but Keith looks like he may have a reach advantage over Hannity. Sean didn't look that tall to me compared to the people he was standing next to. So I would have to give Keith the reach advantage unless Sean has some long, knuckle dragging arms which I doubt he has.