learning experience

I feel that I have learned more about mass communications in this class using the wall street journal than using a text book. I am more current and up to date with the world, which no text book could possibly do. Could we have taken a midterm or final, maybe but it would not have changed the knowledge that I have received. The world changes everyday and by reading the wall street journal and continuing my subscription I feel more confident in myself with the knowledge I receive from it and take with me everyday. The world is a changing place that cannot be stopped and I want to keep up with it. I can watch the news but I prefer to read about it. Have the time to look it over again to analyze what they are saying to understand when it means and to take from it what I know is necessary in life.
My original major was straight public relations which I have now decided to change to sports marketing, possibly broadcasting.I have friends in places I know will help if I ask. To get my degree in the sports related field is an amazing place. Always moving,changing,never boring.To live a life doing something I love and exciting...that is the way to live.

Social Networking

I have accounts with twitter, Myspace and Facebook. Out of the three I use Facebook more than I watch television. It is the best way to get a hold of friends that live in other states, or to send party invites because they are an instant connection. Whenever someone puts something on their page or mine I get a notification. Facebook is very important to me. I keep in touch with people I haven't talked to in over eight years. They are friends that I never should have lost contact with but people grow apart and without the Internet keeping in touch would be non-existent. I used to write letters and mail out cards, but it doesn't keep things current. It takes days to get to the person and from the time you write it to the time you send your letter new things happen, you can;t keep up with life. If I had to pay for the services I would get rid of Myspace. Facebook I can't put a price on, I would pay what it takes to keep it if everyone that I am connected to would keep it as well. Twitter I don't update very often but would possibly pay ten dollars a year. I will being using it for professional contacts and as a business connection.

My favorite movie

The one Movie that I could watch over and over again would be sing in the rain. I absolutely love Gene Kelly. The songs, music, dancing. Movies are not made the same anymore. They were made with heart and cared about what the were making. Musicals are a passion of mine, the way they move the feelings that project, you can see it in their eyes. The work and effort put in to learn the dances and songs not just the lines they are meant to say. Gene Kelly was a visionary of his time a creator, the type of person that I don't believe will ever come around again.

I enjoy seeing things on the stage. Movie theaters are loud and might not catch what they are saying. Watching people perform on a stage I feel is the best way to watch a performance. They way they move the excitement in their eyes and not every time is the same. They could change it up so if you see it more than once they might do something that they didn't do the first time.

I did not watch the academy awards on Sunday. It was my day off from work and I enjoyed it. Spent the day walking around universal with a friend, afterwords we went to dinner and caught a movie. A perfect day.

Newspaper Habits

I didn't really have any newspaper habits before receiving the wall street journal. I would pick up the paper on occasion on Sunday's for the job ads and the comics. For the flyers for target and wal-mart and the sales they were all having, for the up coming week. I am really not into the news as horrible as that may sound. Every so often I would put on the ten o'clock news to see what was going on, however it just get so depressing after a while it is hard for me to stay focused.

I know that there is a purpose for newspapers today I am just not sure what it is. Everything that is in them now a days can be found online or on television. With the way the world is today and as horrible as it is to say but why waste the paper. I just don't feel that enough people read them to keep producing them in that mass amounts that they come in. When a store does not sell them all do they send them back to be recycled? Do they recylce them on their own? Or do they just throw then in the trash?

As contradictory as it sounds I think it is better using the WSJ instead of a text book. A text book can not keep up with today's information. Once the book is in print it cannot change. Using a daily newspaper keeps you up much better with the times. How companies are doing, new and old books that are making a dent in today's society. Movies that are being remade with meaning or just for laughter, but how are they still making the money they are making with the economy being the way that it is? I feel that using the paper will help us better understand the world as it is and not as it was when the book was being put together. It is not a history class it is a current process that continues to change and grow and I believe I will get a better understanding of that in this class.