Standing Ovation: NONSTOP NEWS RESPONSE

Wednesday, March 9, 2011

NONSTOP NEWS RESPONSE

Quote from passage:
As media outlets multiply and it becomes easier to disseminate information on the web and on cable, the news cycle is getting shorter—to the point that there is no pause, only the constancy of the web and the endless argument of cable. This creates pressure to entertain or perish, which has fed the press’s dominant bias: not pro-liberal or pro-conservative but pro-conflict

Essentially Auletta is stating this idea with the belief that media is shifting into a new idea set as the viewers of news are changing as well. Auletta is stating that the media is now geared towards producing news tailored to the people. Tailored in the aspect of now entertainment and to the point reporting is becoming more frequent as people are now changing in that aspect as well. With people having easier acess internet and television, they can now choose what news source they choose to watch as well as choose the source they want to view that news. So the media now has to emphasise things that people find interesting which is pro-conflict issues. I can see this everyday as television is a box of negativity (as Maddi told me). All people care about is either sports, celeberties, or interesting conflicts around the world. Plus every media source has some bias because the news is tailoring themselves to the people which will cause this bias. This is a problem because people are now surrounded by a world of negativity as people are viewing media everyday. Plus if our media shows any kind of bias ideas then the people of subjected to that as well.

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Welcome to our Eng 100 Blog “Standing Ovation”! The title of this blog refers to the audience of active readers we are creating by sharing our academic writing for Eng 100 with a larger group of students, instructors, academics, and just about anybody who chooses to follow our blog! When you write and post your reader responses here (and, later, as you write your essays for the course), I encourage you to use this audience to conceptualize who you are writing for and, most important, how to communicate your ideas so that this group of academic readers and writers can easily follow your line of thinking. Think about it this way: What do you need to explain and articulate in order for the other bloggers to understand your response to the essays we’ve read in class? What does your audience need to know about those essays and the authors who wrote them? And how can you show your readers, in writing, which ideas you add to these “conversations” that take place in the texts we study?
As students of Eng 100, you will use this blog to begin conversations with other academic writers on campus (students and instructors alike). We become active readers of each other’s writing when we comment on posts here. And, best of all, we are using this space to share ideas! I encourage you to use this blog to further think through the topics and writing strategies you will be introduced to this quarter. As always, be sure to give credit to those people whose ideas you borrow for your own thinking and writing (you should do this in the blog by commenting on their post, but you will also be required to cite what you borrow from your peers/instructors if and when it winds up in your essays. More details on that later).
Finally, keep in mind that writing to and for this audience is a good way to prepare for the panel of readers (faculty at WCC) who will be reading and assessing your writing portfolio at the end of the quarter. I hope that as a large group of active readers, we can better prepare each other for this experience. But, in the meantime, let’s have fun with it!