Today I was reading in the WashingtonPost section "On Faith". I love that in this day and age news can be from anyone and everyone. Today's article was about The Book of Mormon which is now showing on Broadway, it was written by a Professor of Philosophy at Biola University. I think it is interesting that in a society where religion is being shunned big circulation newspapers still have a section about various faiths.
John Mark Reynolds, but a member of the Mormon faith, wrote the article in defense of the Mormon church. It's nice to see that through the internet people can find out the truth about what Mormon's believe and they can finally start to eliminate the prejudices that have existed since the 1800's.
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
#12 The Movie Rating System
Earlier in class, we learned that the Movie Rating system is incredibly flawed. I think that it is interesting that my whole life I was told not to watch rated "R" movies because they were bad. Although I agree that they don't have the most uplifting content, I do think that sometimes PG-13 Movies are worse because more people are willing to see a PG-13 movie. PG-13 movies in my opinion have a better market because they can attract the main movie goers, teenagers.
It's interesting that everyone bases the content of a movie off of the movie rating system because movies are rated by a team of private moms and the producers. While yes, there are slight restrictions on what defines an R rated movie verses a PG-13 rated movie, I think that those lines are becoming blurred and it's no longer black or white.
It's interesting that everyone bases the content of a movie off of the movie rating system because movies are rated by a team of private moms and the producers. While yes, there are slight restrictions on what defines an R rated movie verses a PG-13 rated movie, I think that those lines are becoming blurred and it's no longer black or white.
Tuesday, June 7, 2011
#11 Magazines
A few days ago we studied magazines. Granted I don't always buy magazines but I always look at them while I am in the check out line at the grocery store. We learned that there are two types of magazines (1) general interest and (2) trade. Trade magazines are specialized magazines, usually professional such as doctor magazines. It is interesting to note that while all other print medias are struggling to stay around, magazines continue to do quite well. But why is this?
Magazines are national, meaning that they attract more advertising because they can reach virtually anyone. Also they have great color and high quality reproduction and a longer shelf life, so the ads stick around the house longer.
Although I think that eventually magazines will have to change and eventually be on the internet, I think that they will last longer than other print media.
Magazines are national, meaning that they attract more advertising because they can reach virtually anyone. Also they have great color and high quality reproduction and a longer shelf life, so the ads stick around the house longer.
Although I think that eventually magazines will have to change and eventually be on the internet, I think that they will last longer than other print media.
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