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News, trust, and “truthiness”

From my own opinion and from other classmate’s, it seems that we all agree that satirical news such as The Daily Show and the Rick Mercer Report, as equally as, if not more, good as your regular 6 o’clock news. … Continue reading

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Is the fake news real news ?

Satirical news shows such as The Daily Show, Colbert Report, etc. I would definitely consider them to be mainstream of culture jamming.  When you think of it, the before mentioned shows do the exact same thing has regular news shows, … Continue reading

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Demonstrable Demographics

There definitely seems to be a theme of “sex” in other ads that my peers are noticing as well, but there tends to be disagreement amongst us if these ads represent our demographic accurately or not.  One classmate used the … Continue reading

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What the Hail?

The Gillette multi razor commercial has a white, young, good looking, confident, well groomed male leading the commercial asking good looking white women in the commercial about what type of body hair they like on men. Of course they all … Continue reading

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Is the media we want the same as the media we need?

Is anything that we want, ever something that we need? Sometimes yes, but I think most of the time no. Same can be said for the media. In terms of social, political, cultural or economic matters, unless you are involved … Continue reading

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Media Impact

The way media impacts a person’s life depends on how media literate they are.  If a person has been bombarded their whole life through various mediums, they are able to on their own filter what the real facts are and … Continue reading

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