Comment on Ted talk

I live in Tel Aviv, Israel and I am angry with city hall. About 5 years ago, the mayor decided to destroy a home for one of the most decorated sports teams in Israel and, more importantly, a home for about 10,000 fans who sacrificed everything for that team. The mayor promised a new stadium and 5 million shekels. As the years went by, we did not see any fund from city hall and we have seen our team be relegated every year since our home has been destroyed. Our rival team from the same city, however, has received ten million shekels from city hall. We, the fans, march into city hall every week and we demand answers, but we get the same answer. " The mayor is too busy right now, come back later." We need more sources like WikiLeaks all over the world in order to get all of the corruption out of the world. We always say we need to make it our goal to become more of a utopian society. Then why not start with this? I admire what Julian is doing for our world today and I wish there would be more brave people like him out there. Julian Assange, I salute you

My Comment-  I completely agree with Niv, people are always telling us to come back later when they are actually telling us to leave because they don't want to help and they don't want to tell us why. And a WikiLeak would atleast give us an answer. And yes this is why we need more people like Julian Assange in this world

News Analysis 2

http://edition.cnn.com/2012/10/29/sport/football/football-racism-chelsea-clattenburg/index.html?hpt=isp_c1

Informative vs Superficial

Accurate and Truthful vs False and Deceptive

Objective vs Biased

Pluralistic vs Insular Viewpoint

Balanced vs Weighted Side

News Analysis 1

a) List the stories that were covered, and in what order they were presented; 

Spanish News. 

1. Hurricane Sandy, everything closed
2. Catalonia wants independence
3. Politics in Basque 
4. Inflation in Spain
5. Pharmacies selling their drugs in the black market in spain
6. Soccer- Barcelona missing players
7. Spanish people suffering in Hurricane Sandy

b) Comment on the scope: which news story received the most attention? Which on the least? 

the First story received most attention, they are telling us about Hurricane Sandy and the streets in New York are empty which is supposed to be "the city that never sleeps" 

c) Choose one story, and pay attention to the structure. What does it include? A lead-in? Live interview? Expert analysis or commentary? Visuals or graphics? 

Hurricane Sandy story- It has a lead in explaining everything that is going on, the floods the fires, the people without electricity. And then there are Visual Graphics which are really shocking to see. And then theres a commentator and an interview with a person who lives in New York. They have small videos from peoples phones

d) Related to the previous questions, how does the particular news story look and feel? Besides what is shown, what is left out?

Independence story,

It feels like they are really just giving one side of the story, how catalonia shouldn't be independized but that's because this is a channel from Madrid and not from Barcelona. They only show one perspective of the story.

e)Evaluate one story in the newscast. , and pay attention to the statement and slant. Neutral? Positive? Negative? Evaluate the story according to its objectivity. 

It depends what they are talking about, if its a situation from outside the world (Sandy) then is Neutral other wise its usually negative they don't usually show anything positive unless it has to do with sports (Barcelona)

f) Lastly, pay attention to the sponsors. ,What does this say about the particular viewing audience demographic?

it's mostly for adults because it's either about politics which young people aren't usually interested in, or has some brutal images which are not for the young people to see.

Who is communicating?

Ferrari company showing the beauty of the car

Why about who?

To people who have money, only those who dare can live. They are showing how people who have money can live because they can afford this car.

Why is it that way?

Because its saying that people that can't afford a ferrari cannot live happily (which is the biggest lie ever)

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“The Greatest Movie Ever Sold”

Alexis Garcia

Both Peter Travers and Michael Philips believe that “POM Wonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie ever Sold” is a humorous film which made people laugh. What Michael Philips loves about the film is how “Morgan Spurlock cracks up frequently in front of the camera” (Michael Philips). While Peter Travers enjoys the way Spurlock interviews movie directors, with his favorite Brett Ratner the director of Rush Hour. Travers thinks the movie makes people laugh so much that “Even when you are going to be seeing all of this advertisements in the documentary, the laughing is going to make you choke.”(Peter Traver) However both Travers and Philips agree that “it’s a documentary that tells you even while you are laughing that we are all going to hell in a sponsored handbasket” (Travers, Philips). However “The Greatest movie ever sold” “is all about an anecdote in which Spurlock tries to finance the 1.5 million dollars movie he’s making by pursuing various “brand integration” possibilities.” (Michael Philips)

This add shows how lipstick looks amazing on girls, which is good because it sells the product. The add shows all the different types of lipstick and how good it looks. However this add has the same problem as all the other adds, it makes girls think that they need to wear lipstick in order to look good. I personally think that it looks good on girls but not wearing lipstick makes no difference which is not what this add is telling us, because when you see it, it gives you "need" to wear lipstick. This is just like an add for hair, when i see a magazine with a guy who has really cool hair it makes me feel like my hair sucks and i should change it like his.

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This add is showing how cigarette is popular, and how a "hot" girl like in the picture smokes which makes her cool, making the cigarettes look cool and fashionable, the way the box says capri. However this add doesn't tell that cigarettes are bad for you and will end up killing you, there is a little warning box that shows tells that its bad for pregnant women but it doesn't say its bad for regular people. This could be seen as if they company is "killing" people to get a high amount of profit and since they are they wont stop.