The Task for Monday

News consumed by me

To start off I’d like to define the word “news”, and that is most basically said information. We as people consume a great amount of news on a daily basis, and that’s not just reading articles ,newspapers or watching the reports on TV ,we constantly receive numerous types of information (from people, reading posts, billboards etc.) but we choose to believe certain ones. And to be honest, I like cherry-picking the news I would trust ,whilst still doing my research on their legitimacy.
            Generally speaking I consume news for the reason to be informed in some way and to have opinions and basic knowledge on certain topics. Furthermore in my opinion people should have at least a little understanding about what’s going on in their city, country and the world itself, due to the fact that these people are going to be deciding their land’s fate some day by voting for instance.
            Watching people have a take on certain topics of worldwide events or politics is a thing I enjoy doing. I also read different articles from various sites. The reason for that being is because I’d like to hear different opinions and takes on the same theme. I am not really fond of reading newspapers and I’d hold the generation I’ve grown with accountable for that. Although my grandparents read papers or some elderly people I know do that I have been living all my life around technology and devices that provide online info such as articles, news stories and such. Sites I visit include The Guardian ,Reuters ,BBC and some more. There are sites I try to avoid from time to time such as CNN or FOX News, due to their subjectivity and repetitiveness (I’m a bit sick of reading about how the American president D. Trump said something sexist, racist or how he’ll start WW3).

            In a nutshell ass I mentioned in my previous paragraph I highly favour sites that are objective. Additionally reading 2 articles(about one story) that are based on different opinions is essential, because in that way you get both sides of the story, and you can base your opinion more easily, while not being affected by another person’s ideas.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Old Spice Bahamas Ad Analysis

How are viewpoints and ideologies communicated? Draw on a range of examples to illustrate your analysis: Old Spice is an American brand of male grooming products such as deodorants, shampoos, body washes, soaps etc. Initially, first targeted to women with men's products being released only before Christmas at the end of the year. However, over time as the men's products found more success it began to focus exclusively on those. The model used in this ad is Isaiah Mustafa, same model used in the extremely popular video advertisement of old spice called ''The Man You Can Smell Like''. The reference to that video is the ideological message it carries,which is essentially that if you use this body wash you become more masculine and therefore become more appealing to women. The Old Spice Man promotes this unrealistic idea by depicting the ''ideal man''. A lot of postmodern and non-traditional elements have been used in the ad as well. The surr...
Read more

Minecraft Article

1. Because of how simplistic and open-ended the game is. In order to play Minecraft you need collect certain resources. A bed, for example, requires you to combine wood and wool, while a longbol is made from a stick and some string. There's no story, no mission, just you and a world of possibilities. In a nutshell it teaches you basic skills and it's easy to understand. 2. Some features to the  educational version of minecraft are the things you learn through playing it such as geography, architecture, agriculture and physics. I would say it is a good idea since it is an interactive way of teaching students. 3. Copy cat versions usually have ''better'' graphics and some other modifiactions, which usually would mean a good thing. However minecraft's charm is in its simplistic graphics that make the gameplay so much more interesting. 4. It is the community that creates all the different mods of the game, in other words the community that add even more...
Read more

Q3

Explain how the political context in which newspapers are produced, influences their ownership and regulation. Refer to The Guardian and The Daily Mail newspapers you have studied to support your answer. [10 marks] The press in the UK is free and it is generally accepted that this is fundamental to a democratic society. That means that newsmakers should seek out and circulate news, information, ideas, comment and opinion to hold those in authority to account. The press provides the platform for a multiplicity of voices to be heard. This also means that newspapers are allowed to express opinions, as well as political views. In both newspapers' cases, as any press out there, they have a political bias, which of course affects the news they put out as well as their stand on social and ethical issues. After the 2011 phone hacking scandals involving a range of newspapers a major report was published, by Lord Leveson. As a result, a new press regulator, IPSO, was set up. The aim w...
Read more