Blog 4

In my area of track, Journalism, print media is found in books, magazines, and newspapers. I'm not a huge magazine reader, but I do enjoy books and sometimes the newspaper from time to time. These print medias are found in peoples daily lives everyday. I personally don't read that much printed media, if I want to read the news I just go online to my local papers site and read up. Web based media has definitely played a bigger role in my life then printed media. I think its because of my generation, everyone I know that is my age is well rounded on the Internet. I think since the web has played a huge part in mine and my generations daily lives that we have just grown accustomed to web based media. After reading some of the classmates response to my discussion about printed media being a dying breed, I know that it is not actually a dying breed but for me personally, I prefer web based media. It is just so much more convenient, my laptop is right on my lap and I can find anything on it right here and now.

In my opinion

There are a few things I believe need to be taken out from the commercial i put in my last blog. The nasty narrator needs to go, I feel he's the integrator in this whole thing. I find him to be annoying, and makes the audience feel that the women in the commercial is actually doing something wrong, when in reality shes not. Also, take away the bored, irritated attitude of the man that is with the women. The whole commercial needs an attitude switch. Instead of the man looking all pitiful, maybe make him seem happy he is with his significant other. To keep the product in the commercial, have the man checking his FloTV personal television but have the women possibly glance at it happily and then they carry on their shopping journey. If the commercial placed a more positive attitude, it makes everyone look good.

Blog 4

Superbowl Sunday was full of comical and interesting commercials this year. But one commercials I found to be rather sexist against females, particularly women who are in relationships with men, is the Spineless commercial by FloTV. This commercial shows a man being dragged around by his significant other while the football game is going on. Apparently if a man goes and spends time with their lover it's "Spineless."The commercials makes the woman look awful for taking her boyfriend or husband out shopping with her. The commercial makes, making your wife or girlfriend happy as a bad thing. So, hey, take FloTV with you everywhere you go so you can be more self-aborbed and not fulfill your womens needs even more, because apparently according to the commercial that's what really makes a man happy.

poor writing by the swedish

http://www.thelocal.se/7650/20070619/

I found an interesting and comical article about a 42 year old man from Sweden, who gets state benefits from claiming that him listening to heavy metal music as a disability. As interesting and funny the article was, I noticed a few things wrong with the writing. The writer uses a lot of quotes, but I found he forgets to use the quotation marks entirely. For example:
"I think it's extremely strange. Unless there is an underlying diagnosis it is absolutely unbelievable that the job centre would pay pay out. The writer forgot to put the last quotation mark after the period. It's also unclear who is saying what quotes.
Also, it talks about how the local (the website) talked to a psychologist about the matter. I would like to know what psychologist they talked to, and also what three psychologist said it was necessary for the man to listen to metal to avoid being discriminated against. What does discrimination and a disability have anything in common on why he needs to listen heavy metal?
I feel there are a lot of grammatical errors in this article. But even with the errors I still found it to be quite amusing, but I just wish it was written a little better.