We spend time learning WHAT media workers do, but it's just as important to think about HOW they do it and WHY they do it. Let's get some ideas percolating about what we see and how it affects us. I call it "Sunrise on Media" because I often arrive at work obscenely early and will update this blog then.
What happened in the news this week? You haven't been commenting much to this post, so rather than going from my own thoughts, I'm leaving it entirely up to you.
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Katy Culver
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4:29 PM
Labels: current events, kc news meeting
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Balloon Boy!
Taliban attacks in Pakistan
Senate Republicans accused of voting against rape victims.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2009/10/16/notes101609.DTL
http://www.shortnews.com/start.cfm?id=81053
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/paula-gordon/the-dirty-thirty-and-the_b_324920.html
Madison bans novelty lighters for fire-prevention. They claim that they encourage kids to play with fire.
http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/local/govt_and_politics/city_hall/article_7473ccc4-bb9a-11de-923c-001cc4c002e0.html
Reports show that the average internet user now spends 68 hours online per month.
http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/online_mobile/top-u-s-web-brands-and-parent-companies-for-september-2009/
Potential new viral video sensation: footage of a six-month-old baby that survives getting run over by a train.
http://www.theweek.com/article/index/101747/The_baby_stroller_train_video
Arrests that were made for the insider trading scandal—another sign of arrogance and excess on wall street. Ringleader was already one of the richest men in the world!
Australian baby falls in the subway tracks and survives!
http://www.pbpulse.com/tag/melbourne-baby-subway/
Balloon Boy publicity stunt likely to end in charges
Users of the T-Mobile Sidekick lost their data that was stored on a server due to a technical glitch caused by Microsoft.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/12/technology/business-computing/12sidekick.html?_r=1
http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/10/17/interracial.marriage/index.html
he refused to marry an interracial couple!
Katy,
I forgot my Blogger password so could you post this to the current events section:
The event that seemed to make the most headlines this week was the boy who was thought to have sailed off in his family's balloon. The media made it a big spectacle based off of the account of his slightly older brother. My question does not concern whether or not it was a publicity stunt, but how we can make something so unsure a highly talked about issue.
H1N1 vaccine stirs up more controversy
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/16/health/16vaccine.html?th&emc=th
http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/10/18/arizona.sweatbox.death/index.html
another person dies from "sweatbox"
Taliban has a YouTube channel--
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/world/2009/10/18/gps.taliban.youtube.cnn
This is a really interesting article about giving students and ex-convicts a second chance.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/19/education/19teacher.html?_r=1&ref=us
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