I really don’t want to do this blog. I’m not going to lie. I would much rather write my papers and get on with this class. However, I must do these blogs to pad my grade a little bit. That is why I’m no longer going to talk about this and focus on what this is supposed to be about.
Sarah Palin. We all know her as the fun little hockey mom from Alaska. The vice-presidential nominee. What we don’t know are why so many people make fun of her. Well, that’s what my second paper is about.
I feel as though I wanted to write it better. Maybe I should just worry about revising it later. Yes. That will be the best option for now. This is not my shitty first draft, but I know I can do better than what I’ve got. So my pledge to myself and to my papers is this:
I will have all of my papers completed by Friday, through Endorsement Groups by the end of next week, and revision completed by the 30th. This may be only a small amount of time for revision, but it is revision after all. I have all the ideas. It’s the small things I have to worry about there. This way, if I’m not satisfied with my revision, then I will have 3 extra school days for improvement.
That’s me as a writer. Set deadlines and follow through with them. The first part is easy, it’s the second part that gives me trouble every now and then.
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
New is Hilarious
For anybody that doesn’t enjoy watching news, here’s a little piece for you to enjoy. News first objective isn’t to be enjoyable. That happens over time. I didn’t watch any news until I started working for a TV-station. Furthermore, I didn’t enjoy being there until a couple months after I started. It used to be boring to me. Sometimes it still is. The key to enjoying news is finding the funny things in it.
For example, have you ever noticed how ridiculous some of CNN’s programming is? Filling time is a big issue in the news, but it comes from that inability to easily fill time with significant news where you get hilarious snippets. Check out the video I posted at the bottom from The Onion News Network on Youtube. The Onion is a fictitious news organization with the motto, “Making you Seem Better Informed.” It’s all about having fun.
The thought most people have about the news is that it’s rigid, uptight, and only for upper-class individuals. In reality, you just have to find the best station that fits for you. While news is supposed to offer unbiased opinions, most people know that’s only a guideline, and when we watch different news networks the fact is, each one caters to a different crowd. Election years show the differences clearly. Fox offered support to McCain and NBC swayed voters toward Obama. So try this: if you’re liberal watch NBC networks and conservatives may try Fox. If you still don’t like it, watch The Onion, then go back, watch the news, and try to see if you can spot the ridiculousness of how serious the news tries to be. Trust me, after two and a half years of working at a news station, they fail miserably. They just don’t make it obvious.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9U4Ha9HQvMo&playnext_from=TL&videos=J-TRw5W51Qs
For example, have you ever noticed how ridiculous some of CNN’s programming is? Filling time is a big issue in the news, but it comes from that inability to easily fill time with significant news where you get hilarious snippets. Check out the video I posted at the bottom from The Onion News Network on Youtube. The Onion is a fictitious news organization with the motto, “Making you Seem Better Informed.” It’s all about having fun.
The thought most people have about the news is that it’s rigid, uptight, and only for upper-class individuals. In reality, you just have to find the best station that fits for you. While news is supposed to offer unbiased opinions, most people know that’s only a guideline, and when we watch different news networks the fact is, each one caters to a different crowd. Election years show the differences clearly. Fox offered support to McCain and NBC swayed voters toward Obama. So try this: if you’re liberal watch NBC networks and conservatives may try Fox. If you still don’t like it, watch The Onion, then go back, watch the news, and try to see if you can spot the ridiculousness of how serious the news tries to be. Trust me, after two and a half years of working at a news station, they fail miserably. They just don’t make it obvious.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9U4Ha9HQvMo&playnext_from=TL&videos=J-TRw5W51Qs
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