Blog Response #2

I personally believe that as a society, we do not want the same media that we may need. Many people living in today's society are craving and looking for media regarding their favourite celebrities or athletes rather than media regarding social and political leaders that discuss world issues which people our age should be concerned about. Since the majority of today's society focuses on media that revolves around entertainment, it is less common to see media regarding cultural, political, social, and/or economic matters.

After reading many of my classmates' blogs, i have come to realize that many of them are using the media for matters such as news which is very informative. I am personally not using the media in such a way but am now contemplating starting to use the media equally for news as I do for entertainment. In her blog, Mary Castaneda stated: "The use of the word 'terrorist' versus the use of the word 'rebel', the word 'terrorist' consisting of 'terror' sounds much more threatening than rebel". Her saying this shows her understanding and knowledge of the types of tricks used by the news to make stories more interesting. She is knowledgeable in the sense that she can understand what the news does to try to draw in the society as watchers.
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Many people are very concerned about what is going on around the world. An example of this is my father who is constantly watching the Egyptian news on satellite. He is concerned about what is going on in his native homeland because his family still lives there. Kevin Shen said in his blog that: "The biggest piece of media that we want is the news because people want to know what is happening around the world or maybe in their own cities". I believe that Kevin understands that people are genuinely concerned about news that has any kind of connection to them.
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Media is constantly changing and redesigning who we are as people. When we see something on TV or in a movie it shapes who we aspire to become. For example, when I watch hockey on TV, namely the Chicago Blackhawks team in the NHL, I wish to become as good as the captain Jonathan Toews who is my idol. Haley Bourque had stated in her blog that: "As a society, we learn to listen and become influenced by what we hear or see through advertisements, magazines, reality TV, news channels etc.". I feel as though Haley understands the ideas of the media by knowing that, what they are trying to do is make the consumer want what they are producing/making.