Response to Liz Klein's News Media critique

I 99.9 percent agree with what Liz said about how a grizzly bear attack isn't as effective on the population. And I also agree with the fact that news articles can have deeper meanings like I was told by Wesal and passed on to Evie.

Though to be a little fair, the Courier-Journal posts a lot of things. Of course, every now and then there will be a pointless article about something like a person being killed by a grizzly bear. Which isn't all that shocking, you should run away if you're even near a grizzly bear anyway.

The reason, as we learned in class, why these articles appear is because, in most cases, there isn't any more 'important' news or 'newsworthiness' to post or write about. Journalists will have a week where they'll be scraping the bottom of the barrel for some fill-in article.

Now I'm not saying that this article isn't important or is important, but merely a fill-in article. Once I read a story about a kid who called 911 because he wanted to arrest the Grinch before he stole Christmas, and that was from WHAS news website.

So Liz isn't wrong at all, though there are other reasons why articles like this can be posted. Sometimes they're just fill-ins and sometimes they're really important. Though the most important thing is to never underestimate an article even if it isn't relevant to you. Journalists try to make livings too. 

Response to Evie's Local Relevance Post

Although in many cases I do believe in what Evie says in this post about Local news relevance. A murder mystery in California seems like it's unnewsworthy. But I think, just like I did, Evie may have skipped over a bigger meaning.

When I went to check in Wesal El  Majbri's article, which is http://wisalj1.blogspot.com/ if you want to go and check her blog out. She wrote a criticism post on my News Relevance post about how I indeed skipped over a bigger picture. Which Wesal is definitely not wrong about, but it's a good thing to know this. Because this could in some ways be relevant to the nation.

And I want to pass this on to Evie's point that this murder in California isn't relevant at all. And that she's completely correct that it doesn't affect us as a mass medium. But What Evie should think about is that, like Wesal said about mine, is you should look at the bigger picture of what this article tells you.

In conclusion, I think that Evie is not wrong about her statement, but for future reference, she should take into consideration that there's a bigger picture to a news article than meets the eye at first glance. Always make sure that there's a deeper meaning to every article. 

Demassification

I'm kind of in a grey spot when it comes to if Demassification is a good thing or bad thing for a company. To recall from class, demassification is when a widely broadcasted company coverts their focus to a niche audience. It's kind of good thing in a way but can add some consequences.

So say you're a news company and you bought all these other companies and have created a conglomerate business. You decide that after a while of distributing news, franchise and services you want to focus towards something specific, like a sports audience.

It's not a bad thing to focus on sports. It can bring you two main things, one good and bad. The good thing would be you'd be making a lot of money off sports franchise since a huge percentage of our population is all about sports.

Though the bad side of this would be that just focusing on sports would mean there isn't much room for other unique things like you wouldn't do much with the business unless you partnered but most of the time that doesn't always last. But for the most part, it's a good decision to do, because you could make a lot of money, if not more money, by converting to a demassified business.

The 10 elements of Journalism

The ten elements of journalism are a lot more complicated than I thought. To be frank, I never even knew there were 10 elements to journalism. I mean I knew that journalism must've had rules of some sort. Of course, there would be because, without rules, I'm guessing the news would be in a shambles.

When we first learned about these, there were a couple I thought I wouldn't see on there: It was Forum and Watchdog. Forum is where you're getting feedback from the people and citizens themselves. Of course, I kind of knew why it would be relevant and that's because it's important to get a public opinion because that's what the news is for, for the people.

Now when Watchdog came along, I had no clue what the heck it was until Mr. Miller told us about it. It's a little cool to know that one of the biggest helpers in help keeping check with those in power is news organizations. They're like judges, but not legally or by law. I mean CBS can't court-martial me if I was a foreign spy. They're more like Lighthouses, showing us who's been abusing their power and who's the best choice for president, or who's got the best background and skills.

Nowadays, not very many organizations follow most of the ten elements of journalism. Probably because it can be hard to forget one of the elements. But it's important for a journalist to follow these elements. Journalism isn't just a job, but a duty to the country as well.

Mass Comunication

I find it interesting that mass communication in other terms, has the same steps as most other things, like speeches and movies.

Though I'm not sure what exactly the process that the steps to mass communication are called, they do follow the same attributes of making stories and music. First, you start with an idea, then you go from there.

In a film, you start out the same way as Mass Communication. You start out with this idea and you shape and mold it through preproduction. And in speeches, you start out with exactly the same thing in film and writing.

It's so fascinating how we all take this same simple concept and turn into this universal blueprint in how to become known and how to get a message out. I find it cool that we can all understand this process, not just Americans, but all over the world.

Business Conglomerates

To be honest, I never really knew what a Business conglomerate was until we learned it in class. It's kind of cool learning about how the business conglomeration process works.

First of all, from a film perspective, I always thought a business conglomeration was when one movie company would pair up with another, like Paramount and Warner Brothers, or in video games like Havok and Bungie, or in technology like Apple and Microsoft. But those are called Partnership, which I didn't realize up until now and surprised me a little.

From what I learned, I learned that Conglomerates are actually when companies will buy out another, like a company within a company. An example would be something like Nestle, who owns all sorts of businesses like water distribution, candy distribution I'm pretty sure they do box dinners, but you get the idea.

Importantly, I also know that between a populist and elitist distribution company- the two main "binary models" -, business conglomerates push for populist because they're already making money and want to make more. 

Finally, and can now say that I know the difference between a partnership and business conglomerates because at first, they can be confusing. And they're pretty interesting to learn. 

Relevant matters, Newsworthiness - News Media Critique

I remember in our Journalism class about how relevant matters are important. News organizations have been known to do half and half a good and a bad job with hooking consumers. Their headlines are gripping sometimes, but some don't do as much a good job as you think. I was scrolling through the news app on my phone when I stumbled upon an article about a manslaughter by a white cop in Texas, who mistakingly shot her neighbor. Of course, my immediate reaction was "I don't care about this, this isn't relevant to me at all." But that's not true.
Fox News' headline for this story was, "Female Dallas cop who killed man in his home charged with manslaughter." I get that sometimes you can't always come up with a shorter and better headline, but at least make it gripping, which brought me back to relevance. The article was actually talking about a Grand Jury topic that I didn't care to hear about.
It just confuses me why exactly I would need to hear about this. There've been over a thousand police shootings in the U.S. and there are even more today. News relevance should only matter to national topics, like Fox News or CNN, etc. Where we leave the more local stuff to the local stations in the local cities.
There's really no reason why Fox News needs to cover a fatal police shooting in Dallas, Texas. It was tragic, yes. But was it relevant for the country? No. In class, we learned that News relevancy is only relevant when it starts affecting lives. A Dallas, Texas police shooting does not affect a Deli Worker in New York. (Don't even think about looping it around.) We can all agree that these two things never have a thing in common. Ever.
This is called Newsworthiness. And it means "Does it affect a lot of people for a long time."
You can tell me. Does this article have that much of an impact on people's lives for a long time?