Speaker

We had a speaker today, Karen, who was a fairly renownd journalist. Her main focus was to talk about her experience at a protest in Gena, LA. I do not want to be a reporter, but I did learn alot from what she had to do as far as being one. She went to the town trying to be as open minded as she could and get all of the information she could to write the best and most accurate story. In the end, most reporters wrote stories focusing on the main, most famous speakers and did not represent the town in the light they felt was fair. We also discussed the recent murders in Denton. I knew Melanie and honestly wish people would stop reminding me everywhere I turn that she is gone. I want to say one thing though that I also said in class. We need a better system of getting our campus news. I had no idea two other girls were murdered, and maybe if Melanie had known that she might have been more careful. I know I am now, I have a new pepper spray keychain. That's something that needs to be fixed for safety sake. I know the universities main goal, accourding to my own perceptions and from the mouths of the parking dept, is what they're going to build next and not the overall safety and convenience of the people paying for it, but I think their priorities are just a bit mixed up. I can't wait to graduate. Sorry I got so angry there, your class is great.

HH

Facism

It seemed like our main focus today was on facism. We read about it in our handouts and could see it being used in the chapter. With facism, if you show more face you have more credibility, of you show more body then you have less. There seems to be a "body disturbance." In the chapter we read about the planned parenthood ads, I honestly cant say I agree with any of it. To me it just seemed like someone was trying to find something wrong with it. Non-profit organizations do not have the money or ties to large ad agencies and therefore take what they can get. Obviously the person creating them didn't know what they were doing based on the quality of the ads. I wouldn't read too much into it personally. I do agree facism exists though.

HH

Maxim

The second day of class we discussed magazines and ever were asked to bring one to class. I thought it was odd to actually look at the foremost mens magazines and see the same "formula" on the front cover. Maxim is the most popular men's magazine having over 2.5 million readers (and that was in 1997)! It made me realize the standard at which women are held, there is no way we can look like those women on the cover, even they have to be airbrushed! Our assignment was to go do our own content analysis on a newspaper or news magazine from before the 80's. I was excited to do it and see what I could find.

HH

First day of class

Since I didn't even have a blog the first day of class I thought I would go ahead and tell about some of my feelings from then. The class seemed to be an easy going one with exciting assignments. I love to analyze ads and articles and it seemed that the projects we had were to do just that and more. I couldn't wait to come back the next week.

My first blog

So far I'm really enjoying my class. We had a project where we had to look at old newspapers or news magazines. I don't have any family nearby so I turned all of my hopes over to a recycled book store...called Recycled. They saved my life and I bought four Life magazines ranging from the 1960's to the 1970's. I really enjoyed the articles I read. I read one about a Charles Manson murder before they knew it was him, creepy stuff. The pictures they had shown had blood in them, it wasn't very pretty, rather sad actually. But, I finished my report and now I'm off to bed to get some MUCH needed sleep.

You rock my socks,
HH