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Dani Menser
Comm 336

Before taking this course I had no feeling towards the media and or the government. I wanted nothing to do with politics and or the media. In my eyes you could not trust either on of them in anyway, shape, or form. They both lied and never said anything hardily ever that was anywhere near the truth. When I signed up for this course I headed into it with the thought of no matter what I learned it still was probably all going to be lies. And I knew we were going to be discussing the election and I told myself that I was going to do the assignments and that was it, I was not going to get drug into the ways of the political and or media world.
Now my views are completely and utterly different. This class has taught me how to dig for the truth and how to tell who is lying and who is being honest. This class has helped me in ways to find out what I never thought was possible, it has shown me how to find honest journalist, or well slightly honest. I know also have followed up and watch the complete election coverage and actually enjoyed it. I did my own research and found out what I needed to know about each politician and have come to my own conclusion despite my family’s views. I know have a much broader view on the whole thing and hope to keeping getting more interested and more knowledgeable on it all.
I believe that this class was taught very well. The only thing in this class I had a hard time following was the blog assignments. I still don’t quite understand what you were looking for in them. I never have blogged before and maybe I am just out of the loop and not understanding them, but other than that this was a very well put together class and I really enjoyed it a lot. I really enjoyed how open ended your questions were for discussion and how you let us all have our own point of views. You never forced your views on us like most teachers and I really respected you for that.

the course about media and government, we cant look at how media deals with the government w/o looking at the ecomonmy or forign affairs. We have been doing more media and public affair. By posting the question for this question, we're doing the same thing we're doing for the final exam. We can look back at the things we've read and use it. Look over stuff and come to conclusions about it or an evaluation about it.
- Evaluate and analyze, when analyzing you break down and re evaluate them.

***~Paper~***

Due 21st of November. 10 pages. -Evaluate the camgaign and election coverage in the light of this critique. -Evaluate on a scale of 1-10 or a letter grade.-Compare different media outlets (ex - politico vs. Washington Post)
-Discuss the entertainment aspect of the coverage.
-Discuss the media coverage of the campaign after the credit crisis began.
-Discuss the Sarah Palin coverage.
-Independent monitor of power?


***Possible Final Question***
-(25pts)How do the forums do? Do they provide a forum for critisism or compromise...especially when they start snarling at eachother calling people facists.
-Postmodernism
-Check out question 2A from old 317 final (May 2008).

Check Mackeral Wrapper for the Elements of Journalism on the CCJ website posted to wrapper.

Questions to be answered

How much news has been packaged as entertainment?

Are we sprived of a coherent contextual understanding of the world?

Is that a bum wrap?

How much of the election news has been packasged as entertainment?