Tuesday, September 28, 2010

California Election

When I started to do my research on the upcoming election all I knew was what I have seen on the news and Commercials on Meg Whitman and Jerry Brown. They commercials that I watched were pretty hard not to get mad about the things that you heard about Whitman or Brown. It kind of hard to get I true feeling for who I wanted to vote for. I didn’t even know what day that we hard to vote.
            When doing more research and staying away from commercials I started by just goggling both of Whitman and Brown this helped me a little bit but I was stilling busiest information when I started to look at web sites like politics 101 I started to just get the facts about both candidates. I learned both of their views and what I thought witch candidates most fit my views.
            I also found that they can be Governor for two terms witch I think is a pretty long time and it is important that we get the right person in office. We also vote November 2, 2010 I also found out that there was more than Whitman and Brown running there also is a candidate that is running Chelene Nightingale. But you don’t hear much about this candidate. There are also many more candidates that are running like Laura Wells, Dale Ogden, and Carlos Alvarez.
            I few things that learned about Whitman on education she supports “policies that will allow undocumented immigrants admission to state- funded institutions of higher education”. On Marriage she believes that the same sex couples should not be able to adopt children. She supports Abortion rights but not after late term abortion. She is not for legalizing Marijuana.
            I also learned something about Brown. I thought it was interacting that Brown declined proposition 8 when on all of those commercials they say other whys.

Monday, September 13, 2010

Issue 9 Does Fake News Mislead the Public?

Issue 9 Does Fake News Mislead the Public?


Fake news in our society today plays a bigger part in the way that younger viewers are getting their information. This source of information raises the question on how creditable the information that these young viewers are getting from “fake news.”

In the article No Joke by Julia R. Fox, Glory Koloen, and Volkan Sahin talk about Fake news being a negative source of news. They talk about the election year in 2004 and younger voters played a bigger portion then normal with that number is increasing. The age of people voting under 30 is more than we have seen in 12 years. With this number increasing they look at where this portion of the population is getting their information from. They found that a big portion of this population gets there information from other sources then the daily news and more comically based news like the Daily Show. A research center surveyed that 21% of under 30 voters said, “they relied regularly upon comedy shows such as The Daily show with Jon Steward for complain information.” This is a big portion that rely on Fake news that in a lot of cases don’t give u the right information.

The Other article Late- Night Learning talked about news and how comedy based news is part of new way people can learn public affairs. They article states that these helps improve recognition and recall. Witch I think is not completely true, the article even states that Steward from the Daily Show can’t believe that there is a portion of people that just rely on his show for there campaign information or news. Shows like these were made for entertainment and not a source of news.

Wednesday, September 8, 2010

issue one

Are American Values shaped by Mass media?


When reading issue one I first thought about what my point of view is on the question asked, “Do I believe that American Values shaped by the mass media?”I am a person who believes that the mass media shapes American values. When reading the two points of views the first view by Herbert I. Schiller viewed that the media does influence the American values. The second view by James W. Carey is one that does not believe that the media shapes American Values. Both of these points of view did not persuade me either direction. If I had to pick the stronger argument it would be Schiller’s view because it was clear and had valid points.

Schiller talks about “five myths that structure the media.” He also talks about money being too much of what drives the central part of the news and not the important events occurring in society. James tries to talk about how transmission models through communication. Through his part of the argument I think he supports why it has a negative content toward the media and does not come up with a lot of support towards the media being good American Values.

Neither one of the articles went into a lot of depth in how the internet is a big focus in our society through communication. Also how more people are getting there sources through computer and not television and news-papers. This would I think make a totally different view on the media.

Thursday, September 2, 2010