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Media Critique: Rolling Stones Article By Piper Shiflet Journalism has been a hard job to have throughout history, because many of the rules/expectations have remained the same. Journalists must not let their own opinions take over while writing, and being unbiased is one of the most important things to become a stronger journalist. But in general, there are many rules that are broken often, like taking sides, plagiarizing fellow journalists' work and disrespecting their audiences beliefs. This is why most journalists walk on nails and do the right thing, they tell straight facts instead of their own opinions. The New York Times response to the Rolling Stones article, "A Rape on Campus," that was published in 2014 (by no means a recent article) about the false rape case that happened at the University of Virginia, a female by the name Jackie accused a fraternity of raping her. This had already been removed by 2015, as stated by The New York Times, "The articl...

Response to Isabella Bonilla's: Consumption of Mass Communication By Piper Shiflet As I read Isabella's article, Consumption of Mass Communication ,  I became more intrigued in her explanation and views on this topic. She pointed out many ideas and thoughts she had, as well as questions. Isabella ends her first paragraph with the question, "How do we observe this information, and whats the science behind the phycological categorization?" She expresses her thoughts about how we process mass communication, which interested me as well. Throughout the article Isabella kept a consistent mindset, educating other people about what she already knew, and also diving deeper into topics we didn't discuss in our recent lectures in class. I found this quite interesting and found myself wanting to know the answer too. She then goes to explain her interest in filters, especially the phycological filter. Isabella explained it as, "When you impose the physiological filte...

Response to Karlie Brockman's: Is Conglomeration Good or Bad? By Piper Shiflet A recent post by Karlie Brockman on her blog, Karlie J's Journalism Page , discussed the topic of, "Is Conglomeration Good or Bad?" She begins her debate by summarizing the class lecture about what conglomeration is, and talks about how it's a common thing. Karlie then proceeds to talk about how conglomeration can be a good thing, or a bad thing, even mentioning the pros and cons about the situation. She goes into further detail by explaining her point of view about conglomeration making news media cheaper. I enjoyed reading her article and seeing her point of view, and I agree, there are many positive and negative sides to conglomeration, which is why it's a topic I tend to stay neutral about. Karlie points out in her article, "For example, the Coca-Cola Company owns Honest Tea, Fairlife Milk, Minute Maid, Dasani water bottles, and many others. Looking at their website, I...

Impacts of the Metal Type Press Response By Piper Shiflet Today in class we discussed the impacts of the metal moving type press, created by Guttenberg, and how it effected the history of writing. We first talked about different things that improved when we starting to produce better books and other things, with the metal type press. We discussed it’s impact on religion, the spread of literacy among the lower class, how it improved our economy, and how it helped people share knowledge. I thought sharing knowledge was one of the most important topics we discussed, and the topic of how important the printing press was had also become relevant in our discussion. Being able to share knowledge meant that people from further distances didn’t have to hear the word from another person, and word of new inventions and discoveries would no longer be jumbled up like a game of telephone. Having a printing press meant that people could make documents about scientific discoveries that could chang...

Response to Demassification  By Piper Shiflet Demassification was a word I had never heard of until our recent discussion about the topic in class. We had covered mass communication in pervious weeks, but demassification was a new concept. The thought originally stuck in my head that demassification meant losing your mass audience in some way, but it wasn't, it was how you deal with losing your mass audience. I had to think about this for a long time, how exactly would I deal with losing a mass audience?  During this situation you would have to figure out how to gain your audience back, and this is seen everywhere, especially in social media, which I had realized as the definition was being told to me. You see demassification everywhere in this century, and that's why I was surprised that I had never heard of the term before. Demassification happens all the time, and I was oblivious. That's why I was so interested in this topic.  We then proceeded to learn about ...

Response to Ancient Printing By Piper Shiflet Originally I assumed that a lecture like this wasn't worth listening to. Knowing the history of printing was not interesting to me, and I had learned a lot about this topic in pervious years during history or humanities. I was uninterested and quite distant for the first few minutes of class, I knew about the Han dynasty and the stamp seals, but when Mr. Miller began discussing a person named Bi Sheng, the inventor of the original movable type press, it came as a shock to me that Guttenberg had gotten all the credit for the, "first movable type press."  I also found it quite interesting that the topic was brought up about how Chinese and English are so different, making the process of both "movable type presses," so different. Other than the fact that one was made from metal, and the other from wood, the languages were obviously built off of different structures. Chinese involves characters and English use...

Mass Communication By Piper Shiflet      Recently in our Journalism class we discussed the topic of what exactly mass communication is. After only the first few minutes, I had already come to the understanding that no one had ever taught me what mass communication really was. To me, it was just a way of spreading a statement to a large amount of people, but after hearing what Mr. Miller described as mass communication, my thoughts about it were changed.       He described mass communication as something that had the potential to spread across time and space. I found this description as something new, and exciting. Not once had I heard it being described like that, and as I listened to the lecture I became more interested in telling other people about what exactly mass communication is.       I became really intrigued when we began to converse about how the stag...