2nd Six Weeks: Response to Ali's blog

     This post on Ali's blog made me laugh a little, but also I feel the same way. I am constantly going to the movies with friends to see a movie version of an amazing book I had recently read or just to see a really good actor/actress that I like. But I also agree that maybe it should go back to being more of a personal experience. When she brought that up it reminded me of a video I watched recently. It was a list of things that you should do alone at least once. On that list was going to the movies. That seems kind of weird now, but if you think about it, it could be really cool. You could get a lot more engaged with the movie, especially since there is no one talking to you about it, and you can experience more of the emotions fully, without being embarrassed. Like if you went to a sad movie or even a movie about a love story, you could cry without the fear of being judged.

Link to Ali's Blog post: http://alisinfoblog.blogspot.com/2015/10/response-to-movie-lecture.html

2nd Six Weeks: WDRB

     Another news organization that a group of people in my class have been following is WDRB. Something I noticed as I looked through the data that we have been recording is that WDRB's top news stories haven't been important on a large scale. Most of them, online and on TV, are about crimes that happened recently. Many have been about shootings or murders, some about the huge "UofL scandal" and one or two that I would count as newsworthy. While the other news organizations have also done this more than once, WDRB have posted things like this for their top stories a significant number of times. No, that doesn't mean that they don't post newsworthy things. It just means that their top stories, which I consider to be important, haven't been newsworthy.

Link to WDRB online: http://www.wdrb.com/

2nd Six Weeks: Response to Mattie's blog

     Mattie recently did a blog post about a story on WDRB, where they took up a lot of one of the blocks to to tell a story that wasn't actually a news story, it was more on human interest. It was about a man conquering many things to compete in the Ironman Triathlon. I had recently run into a story much like this one that I wrote about in one of my other blog posts, and I agree with Mattie that too much time and coverage is spent on inspiring stories. Especially for people who are watching/reading the news for actual news, not a story on how someone has overcome something in their life. They should have a separate time and place for human interest stories, other than during news blocks/categories.

Link to Mattie's story: http://datsomattie.blogspot.com/2015/10/response-to-man-conquers-addiction.html

2nd Six Weeks: Courier Journal

     For many weeks now, we have been following news organizations and writing down things like whether the stories are local, national, or international, and what category each story would go in. The organization I am following is the Courier Journal, which I always thought it would be a good place too see breaking news and good news stories. As I was reviewing the data that we have taken throughout these weeks, I have noticed that in the column for celebrity, fluff, and other, they have some of the biggest numbers between the groups, other than from WAVE. The lowest number in that column was a one, but in the same day, the online had eight. I was very disappointed when I noticed this.They should try to focus more on the news, than on celebrities and fluff.

Link to the Courier Journal's website: http://www.courier-journal.com

2nd Six Weeks: WLKY

     Most of the time, when I read stories from WLKY's page, they usually follow the ten elements and the seven yardsticks. But today I was checking the news in preparation for a current events quiz, when I saw a story called "Chef opens unique all-day breakfast restaurant in Saint Matthews." Before reading the article, I thought that maybe this story was newsworthy, but as I started to read the article, I realized I was wrong. When you read the article you will see that the article is about the chef's journey of getting into and out of dealing drugs. Yes, I'm very happy he turned his life around, but it is not really newsworthy and I think it should be under entertainment, instead of news.

Link to the news story : http://www.wlky.com/news/chef-opens-unique-allday-breakfast-restaurant-in-saint-matthews/36075170

2nd Six Weeks: TV Lecture

     The TV lecture really made me think about how it was before TVs. And how people probably knew their neighbors like friends and would go outside for many hours of the day to see other people or maybe just walk around. Now, most of the people I know only talk to maybe three of their neighbors and we stay indoors for most hours of the day. We don't just walk around and meet new people, and if we do it is usually for a specific reason. To me that is kind of sad,  wish we could go back to before TVs just to see what it was like, what if TVs were never even invented.

2nd Six weeks: parts of a newspaper

I thought the lecture on parts of a newspaper was boring. I am usually very interested in the lecture but this one didn't really catch my attention. Even thought it was boring, it was still something I really needed to know. Especially being in the J&C magnet, I will probably want to join newspaper or one blue wall, or something where I would need to know what this vocabulary meant. And if I didn't it would probably be very embarrassing.
    I didn't particularly enjoy this lecture, but I did like how every single part of the newspaper has to be well thought out and named, even if they are barely noticeable or the smallest thing on the page. It makes you thing about how long it actually takes to make a newspaper and how much thought goes into it.