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I've learned while taking this course that I underestimated mass communication, and it's way bigger than I thought it really was. There's more to mass communication than just writing and reading news. I've also learned that I really enjoy this idea of study, there's always something new happening and with mass communication it's always right there. From video to print to the web mas communication is literally everywhere and that's such a great thing. I definitely learned to appreciate print more than I did before I took this course. I thought that print was a dying breed of journalism, but I was surprised to learn that it's still up and running just like the web is. I am very thankful for this course, I believe it has definitely made me a better Journalist.

9.3 assignment

Education professor, Elizabeth Billson, died today at age 58. The professor had suffered from cancer for 10 years. Billson taught here at Midville College for 36 years and is known for teaching an estimated 10,000 future teachers during her career. Last year was even awarded university's "Outstanding Professor" award. She will be missed and remembered. A memorial service will be held for the professor later this week.

Video Media

Video media is such a great way to get news out to the people fast and efficiently. Since a lot of people these days use the Internet for almost everything, catching the news on a video is the easiest way to do so. With newspapers people must wait till the following day in order to hear about the news. But with the Internet and video media, they don't have to wait anymore. Youtube is a great way to see all different video media. People can video something on their phone and put it up on Youtube 2 seconds later. It's actually amazing what we can do these days with the technology that we have.

And besides, a lot of the lazy people of American today really don't want to read about the news that happens, they'd rather watch it anyways. Video media keeps everyone happy.

I don't believe video media is better than print because well, people can put videos up and it won't be the entire or true story but since its up early that's what people believe. With print, journalist make sure that their stories are up-to-date and true. I just believe that video media is more convenient.

Assignment

Making a website, wasn't as easy as I expected. There was a lot of other work I had to put in other than writing the assignment out. I had to think of the set up of the site and also pictures. I went on the internet and looked up some articles on CNN and some of them were plain and others were done very creatively. I figured, with the lack of experience, that my site was going to be quite plan. But regardless, I got the pictures and I did my set up which I believe is all my article really needed. Because no matter how pretty the site is, it's what is written that counts.