Justin Riray
Mass Com 100w - MW 1:30pm-2:45pm
Journal #3 - NPR Radio interview analysis
Pakman7JR@hotmail.com
Word Count: 364
‘Remixing Youtube, one Video at a Time” - Melissa Block
All things Considered - March 16, 2009
Melissa Block knew about YouTube videos and how musicians record their performances or tutorials for the internet. She did research on Ophir Kutiel, a.k.a. Kutiman, pronounced and knew he was an Israeli musician and producer. The facts she stated were that he didn’t want to release his remix videos yet, but they were leaked by his friends and already have earned hundreds of thousands of views as well as the original videos pieces getting thousands of hits.
She asked pretty normal questions about his you tube producer stardom. She asked how he came up with the idea and implemented it. There were questions about how he feels about the videos and how it has changed his outlook on his own music. The questions weren’t very intimate or personal, they were all about his surface attributes.
She began asking him how it all started; and other general questions. It seemed like she already had all of the questions set, but it flowed very well. She asked a couple of follow up questions, but they were more like fun and comfortable interjectional type of questions.
There was one inadequate answer in which Ophir completely fumbled his words, especially since his English is pretty basic, and his reply didn’t really directly relate to the question. She just went on to the next question like nothing weird occurred - an acceptable recovery, but if she really cared then she would have asked him to clear it up.
The relationship was strictly business, except the fact that Melissa might have been a fan of Kutiman’s work. They had no personal relationship. If they did, you couldn’t tell by the interview.
This interview didn’t teach me much except maybe to always speak loud and annunciate clearly whenever you are on either side of an interview; for the sake of the other person and the sake of the listeners. This just wasn’t much of a learning experience - nothing else I didn’t already know. I’m not saying I’m a good interviewer, but I do know my interviewing textbook facts by heart.
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Sunday, March 15, 2009
IMHO #1 - Sex Ed for Second Graders
Justin Riray
Mass Com 100w - MW 1:30pm-2:45pm
IMHO #1
Pakman7JR@hotmail.com
Word Count: 476
Introducing: the 13-year-old father who looks like he’s only seven years old. Alfie Patten of Britain is said to be the father of newborn daughter, Maisie.
Parents and educators take ear to the national alert siren going off in their moral consciences. They feel moved to raise the white flag to reality and take precautionary measures in order to prevent anymore 13-year-olds taking on the title of mom or dad.
The Sydney Morning Herald reported that "primary schools in Britain have decided to deliver sex education to children as young as seven after boy-father Alfie Patten's story emerged earlier this month."
It is ridiculous that they will start teaching sexual education to students as young as seven. Any teacher or parent who supports this action is letting fear overtake their logic.
I am sure that a very large amount of couples who first had sex knew what they were doing. By teaching seven-year-olds about sex, schools would be giving them the knowledge to do it - no pun intended.
Just because there are a few exceptions, or outliers, every now and then of young teens having babies does not mean that it will become the norm. Those who it does happen to are usually brought up in poverty or have dysfunctional households or abusive families.
Parents need to step up and teach their kids proper morals and values related to relationships and sex. By teaching it at school it just opens students up to discuss and even experiment the subject with each other, with their parents out of the picture.
I agree with teaching 12 and 13-year-olds about sex, STDs, and birth control. This is when they need to know how to be healthy and responsible about sexual contact. But introducing the subject five years early is ridiculous.
Can you imagine kids who, just a couple years ago, would say things like, “Daddy, why does my peepee look different than yours?” having a diagram of a properly labeled vagina shown in their second grade class? The response would be anything but useful wisdom.
Not only is it funny, but it is logically pointless. At that age it would be impossible to understand and apply the sex education they learn of to their innocent lives.
Parents should never worry about their elementary school kids becoming parents. If they do, they should take a step back and realize that they shouldn’t mold what they teach their kids on freak accidents.
As for Alfie, he is the exception and I’m sure his parents must have taken a parenting vacation over the course of their boy becoming a father.
Seven-year-olds to get sex education thanks to boy-father Alfie Patten
Alleged British 13-year-old father Alfie Patten’s paternity claim in doubt
Mass Com 100w - MW 1:30pm-2:45pm
IMHO #1
Pakman7JR@hotmail.com
Word Count: 476
Why model Children’s Sex Education on Extremes?
Introducing: the 13-year-old father who looks like he’s only seven years old. Alfie Patten of Britain is said to be the father of newborn daughter, Maisie.
Parents and educators take ear to the national alert siren going off in their moral consciences. They feel moved to raise the white flag to reality and take precautionary measures in order to prevent anymore 13-year-olds taking on the title of mom or dad.
The Sydney Morning Herald reported that "primary schools in Britain have decided to deliver sex education to children as young as seven after boy-father Alfie Patten's story emerged earlier this month."
It is ridiculous that they will start teaching sexual education to students as young as seven. Any teacher or parent who supports this action is letting fear overtake their logic.
I am sure that a very large amount of couples who first had sex knew what they were doing. By teaching seven-year-olds about sex, schools would be giving them the knowledge to do it - no pun intended.
Just because there are a few exceptions, or outliers, every now and then of young teens having babies does not mean that it will become the norm. Those who it does happen to are usually brought up in poverty or have dysfunctional households or abusive families.
Parents need to step up and teach their kids proper morals and values related to relationships and sex. By teaching it at school it just opens students up to discuss and even experiment the subject with each other, with their parents out of the picture.
I agree with teaching 12 and 13-year-olds about sex, STDs, and birth control. This is when they need to know how to be healthy and responsible about sexual contact. But introducing the subject five years early is ridiculous.
Can you imagine kids who, just a couple years ago, would say things like, “Daddy, why does my peepee look different than yours?” having a diagram of a properly labeled vagina shown in their second grade class? The response would be anything but useful wisdom.
Not only is it funny, but it is logically pointless. At that age it would be impossible to understand and apply the sex education they learn of to their innocent lives.
Parents should never worry about their elementary school kids becoming parents. If they do, they should take a step back and realize that they shouldn’t mold what they teach their kids on freak accidents.
As for Alfie, he is the exception and I’m sure his parents must have taken a parenting vacation over the course of their boy becoming a father.
Seven-year-olds to get sex education thanks to boy-father Alfie Patten
Alleged British 13-year-old father Alfie Patten’s paternity claim in doubt
Saturday, March 7, 2009
Mystery Character: ???? ?????
Justin Riray
Mass Com 100w - MW 1:30pm-2:45pm
Mystery Character
Pakman7JR@hotmail.com
Word Count: 99
He is one of the most creative writers his age. He is short and somewhat thin and has been made fun of for wearing girl pants and eyeliner. He is many girls’ dream guy, though the amount of fans he has may be equal to the amount of haters he has.
He is the front man of his ridiculously successful band, but is not the lead singer. He named his newborn son after an area in New York and the main character of The Jungle Book. He does spinning jumps while he plays his red and black, signature bass.
Mass Com 100w - MW 1:30pm-2:45pm
Mystery Character
Pakman7JR@hotmail.com
Word Count: 99
He is one of the most creative writers his age. He is short and somewhat thin and has been made fun of for wearing girl pants and eyeliner. He is many girls’ dream guy, though the amount of fans he has may be equal to the amount of haters he has.
He is the front man of his ridiculously successful band, but is not the lead singer. He named his newborn son after an area in New York and the main character of The Jungle Book. He does spinning jumps while he plays his red and black, signature bass.
Thursday, March 5, 2009
EXTRA CREDIT: Copy edit the World 3
"We have the right to refuse serve anyone," should be, "We have the right to refuse SERVICE to anyone," or, "We have the right to refuse TO SERVE anyone."
" ... can be adjusted upon requested," should be, "... can be adjusted upon REQUEST"I got both of those from the menu of the "3 Bros. from China" restaurant in Pleasant Hill.
This is from my Cases in Communications book by Zelezny.The sentence reads: Respondent publishes American Opinion, a monthly outlet for the views of the John Birth Society.
This is a GFE: It should be "the John Birch Society"
This is from one of my sister's high school text books. I can get the name of it if you would like me to, but she's in school right now and isn't texting me back.The sentence, show in two consistent pictures, is: Your purpose to kill me.
That isn't a complete sentence. It should say: Your purpose is to kill me.
It says " ... student that is majoring in broadcast journalism who shown ... "It should say " ... who has shown ... "
My next three corrections come from this book.
IEE should be IIE for the Institute of International Education.
From Edward R. Murrow..., there should be commas before and after the word "officially" and it should read: Although, officially, its assistant director ...
This is also from Edward R. Murrow and the Birth of Broadcast Journalism by Bob Edwards. It should be written as: Alger Hiss'
Hapiness should read: Happiness. Plus, I have no idea why all those words are capitalized. I found this in a newspaper back home in Pittsburg. It was probably the Contra Costa Times classifieds.
This one is from Cases in Communication Law by Zelezny. "Hays" is actually supposed to be "Hayes."
This is from Mass Media Law, by Pember. "Nonconfidential" should be "Non-confidential," according to the AP style book.
The bottom of the 1st picture and the top of the second picture: "Names not commonly before the public not should not be reduced to acronyms solely to save a few words."It should say "Names not commonly known before the public..."
Didn't get to take a picture of it, but in the "One and Done for SJSU" sports article in the Wednesday March 11th, 2009 issue of the Spartan Daily there was a GFE!
Under the picture it named "Chastity Shavers" but in the scoring chart it read: "C. Shaver"
So, I am not sure which one is wrong, but one of them is!
On Prof. McCune’s blog Mike commented:
“Just passing by.Btw, you website have great content!”
The main correction is to change “you website have great content” to “your website has great content”
If you want to be picky, there needs to be a space between “by.” and “Btw”
And if you want to be even more picky, spell btw out as “by the way,” but this is a casual comment on the internet, so “btw” seems acceptable.
Monday, March 2, 2009
Journal #2 - Media Audiences
Justin Riray
Mass Com 100w - MW 1:30pm-2:45pm
Journal #2 - Media Audiences
Pakman7JR@hotmail.com
Word Count: 615
The most ubiquitous news is about President Obama’s budget plans for the United States. It is all over the news on the radio, television, newspaper, and, especially, the internet.
This story was discussed for about four to four and a half minutes on the radio. President Obama, himself was quoted, along with North Carolina Sen. Richard Burr and the House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer.
The radio coverage of the story has a very similar reporter voice over and source sound bite pattern to that of the news coverage. It sounds like the radio station was trying to set up live interview in the listeners minds between the radio news host and the quoted sources. She would warm up a subject and let the sound bite speak for itself, just like news TV broadcasting does.
The package lasted approximately four and a half minutes on Fox News on TV. Congressman Mike Pence was not quoted, but was interviewed, live, by the anchor in a type of split-screen conversation. I wasn’t sure whether to Pence this as a quoted source or a reporter, because he does not work for the news company, yet he explains his answers somewhat like he is a co-anchor for the story.
The main detail I remember is that it seemed more personal than reading about it through the newspaper. Also, they played video clips of President Obama in the background which added to the prominence of the story. The details are always more exciting and memorable if seen on TV, but if you’re reading the paper, you are allowed to read and absorb the information at your own pace and even read it over.
The news paper article in the Mercury was approximately 18 column inches long minus the headlines. Two sources, tax officials and The White House, were quoted in the story. There is only one article that directly relates to Obama’s handling of the budget. There are no photos or graphs for the story in the newspaper.
Though the main headline for the paper is “Obama: Hike taxes on rich,” is in bold font right under the nameplate and a sub-heading that says “His 10-year budget plan seeks health care money,” precedes the article, there is no photo or graph accompanying the article. In fact, the paper placed a picture of a solar-powered car for a story about a man who makes them and is going for a world record.
Usnews.com uploaded their online article on Friday. The most prominent detail I noticed about the online issue is that it actually quoted newspapers such as the Wall Street Journal and USA Today, and a couple other American newspapers. The article was 619 words in length.
It is much more like print than broadcast coverage. There is no real personality or human emotion to the article. It seems very subjective; most likely because there is more feeling present if you are watching and listening to a person talk as opposed to reading words off of a computer screen. But, it is not much different from print coverage except the fact that the paragraphs are at least twice as long in the internet article.
Overall, the stories were similar. The main difference is how personal the media felt. TV and radio seem more interactive and demand more of your sensory attention, so by default, they were more intriguing and informative. The newspaper is a nice way to get an entire story in one sitting and having the ability to reread any piece of information you didn’t catch the first time. As far as convenience goes, the internet takes the cake with a plethora of articles on a single subject available at anytime.
Sources of my stories:
radio
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=101234106
TV
Fox News Channel
newspaper
http://sanjosemercurynews.ca.newsmemory.com/ee/sanjosemercurynews/default.php?pSetup=sanjosemercurynews
web
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/politics/bulletin/bulletin_090227.htm
Mass Com 100w - MW 1:30pm-2:45pm
Journal #2 - Media Audiences
Pakman7JR@hotmail.com
Word Count: 615
The most ubiquitous news is about President Obama’s budget plans for the United States. It is all over the news on the radio, television, newspaper, and, especially, the internet.
This story was discussed for about four to four and a half minutes on the radio. President Obama, himself was quoted, along with North Carolina Sen. Richard Burr and the House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer.
The radio coverage of the story has a very similar reporter voice over and source sound bite pattern to that of the news coverage. It sounds like the radio station was trying to set up live interview in the listeners minds between the radio news host and the quoted sources. She would warm up a subject and let the sound bite speak for itself, just like news TV broadcasting does.
The package lasted approximately four and a half minutes on Fox News on TV. Congressman Mike Pence was not quoted, but was interviewed, live, by the anchor in a type of split-screen conversation. I wasn’t sure whether to Pence this as a quoted source or a reporter, because he does not work for the news company, yet he explains his answers somewhat like he is a co-anchor for the story.
The main detail I remember is that it seemed more personal than reading about it through the newspaper. Also, they played video clips of President Obama in the background which added to the prominence of the story. The details are always more exciting and memorable if seen on TV, but if you’re reading the paper, you are allowed to read and absorb the information at your own pace and even read it over.
The news paper article in the Mercury was approximately 18 column inches long minus the headlines. Two sources, tax officials and The White House, were quoted in the story. There is only one article that directly relates to Obama’s handling of the budget. There are no photos or graphs for the story in the newspaper.
Though the main headline for the paper is “Obama: Hike taxes on rich,” is in bold font right under the nameplate and a sub-heading that says “His 10-year budget plan seeks health care money,” precedes the article, there is no photo or graph accompanying the article. In fact, the paper placed a picture of a solar-powered car for a story about a man who makes them and is going for a world record.
Usnews.com uploaded their online article on Friday. The most prominent detail I noticed about the online issue is that it actually quoted newspapers such as the Wall Street Journal and USA Today, and a couple other American newspapers. The article was 619 words in length.
It is much more like print than broadcast coverage. There is no real personality or human emotion to the article. It seems very subjective; most likely because there is more feeling present if you are watching and listening to a person talk as opposed to reading words off of a computer screen. But, it is not much different from print coverage except the fact that the paragraphs are at least twice as long in the internet article.
Overall, the stories were similar. The main difference is how personal the media felt. TV and radio seem more interactive and demand more of your sensory attention, so by default, they were more intriguing and informative. The newspaper is a nice way to get an entire story in one sitting and having the ability to reread any piece of information you didn’t catch the first time. As far as convenience goes, the internet takes the cake with a plethora of articles on a single subject available at anytime.
Sources of my stories:
radio
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=101234106
TV
Fox News Channel
newspaper
http://sanjosemercurynews.ca.newsmemory.com/ee/sanjosemercurynews/default.php?pSetup=sanjosemercurynews
web
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/politics/bulletin/bulletin_090227.htm
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