“Know your audience” is a phrase you hear often in journalism. Think about your co-workers or classmates. Very few of them are just one ethnicity. The press isn’t all one ethnicity, either. That is what the ethnic press is all about. American newspapers, television stations and other outlets of media aren’t just in English anymore. […]
Archive for September, 2011
Yes it was breaking news, but did it break any Twitter records?
Posted by: sarahe | September 5, 2011 | No Comment |No longer are the days where one must wait for the morning paper to read breaking news. By the time you get to the paper the next day, the rest of the world has moved on. These days, news doesn’t spread any faster than it does on the social media website Twitter. Created by Jack […]
September 11, 2011. Exactly 10 years after the terrorist attacks aimed at both New York City and the Nations Capital; the New York Football Giants will travel to Landover, Maryland to face the Washington Redskins. The past decade has been very different for both franchises. The Giants have been to the NFL Playoffs five times […]
Is LeBron James the Most Scrutinized Athlete in Sports History? In a 24/7 media circus where a celebrity’s every move–and I mean every move– is documented, it’s merely impossible for a superstar athlete to not take heat for something, in some form or another. The rapid rise of the Internet in the late-90′s gave the world […]
The media frenzy brought about by the recent Casey Anthony trial is nothing new. Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle was caught in the same sort of sensationalist scandal over 90 years ago.
under: newspapers, Uncategorized
Tags: celebrity, crime, crime sells, Fatty Arbuckle, Marissa Ashkenaz, Sensationalism
Tags: celebrity, crime, crime sells, Fatty Arbuckle, Marissa Ashkenaz, Sensationalism
Journalistic opinion not always found in a typical medium
Posted by: rsharpe | September 5, 2011 | No Comment |Opinion and journalism. These two words are generally frowned upon when both are involved in the same piece. That is why an entire separate section was created in newspapers just for opinions. However, there was not always an opinion section for journalists and other professionals to get their points across. Some of the earliest […]
under: Comm 455
Tags: Alexander Hamilton, Bob Sharpe, HBO, john adams, King Louis XVI, Mitchell Stephens, Opinion, Thomas Paine
Tags: Alexander Hamilton, Bob Sharpe, HBO, john adams, King Louis XVI, Mitchell Stephens, Opinion, Thomas Paine
Patch.com is taking hyper-local journalism to another level. The cities lucky enough to have a Patch site have citizens that are much more informed about the stuff going on in their backyards. An artist from Fairfax City, Va. — for example — is on the verge of re-opening his art gallery after relocating due to […]
Google. The name stands alone as one of the most revolutionary innovations in recorded history, fifteen years after its inception in 1996 as the “web crawler” BackRub, “designed to traverse the web.” Where its predecessors Yahoo and AOL, with their once-widely popular search engines, have failed to corner the search market, Google founders Larry Page […]
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Tags: Aaron Canada, Google, information, Larry Page, Sergey Brin, Terence McKenna
Tags: Aaron Canada, Google, information, Larry Page, Sergey Brin, Terence McKenna
Revised 7.7.2011 7:17pm My original idea for this blog entry was to discuss the inaccuracy of certain news providers. Specifically, I wanted to call out Fox News. Mentioning Fox News in many classroom discussions typically results in laughter. Students and professors alike appear to reject Fox News as a credible news source. As I […]
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Tags: Content exposure, corrections, credibility, Danielle Roussey, FOX NEWS, Hits, media diet
Tags: Content exposure, corrections, credibility, Danielle Roussey, FOX NEWS, Hits, media diet