Mae's Media Blogs

Whenever I'm listening to the radio, or listening to music, there's one ad that constantly comes on.  It is an awful ad in many ways, and the main thing I know about it is that I hate it.  We will be driving in the car and it will come on, or ill be working on homework while listening to music, and it will come on, and every time it only succeeds in making me mad.  The ad is horrible in a few ways.  The reasons I dislike it so much are mainly the fact that the voice actors are really bad, and the whole dialogue seems very forced and fake, which is something that I find really annoying.  However, the main issue with the ad is the fact that you completely cannot understand what they are saying when they actually say the name of the company.  There is a whole dialogue on how one person failed math and has to go to summer school, and then the other person tells them about a better summer school program where you don't have to go everyday, but for the life of me, I can't un

The Persuaders was the first documentary that I had seen that focused on the impact of ads, language, and overall clutter on the way we think, live, and act.  Seeing how advertisers and politicians alike conduct focus groups and create ads, all with the sole purpose of getting someone, like me, to buy their product was really eye opening. The statistics they offered on how many ads the average person seems everyday was very surprising to me, especially given that we know that number has increased exponentially in the years since this film was mad. Personally, if I thought about it, I wouldn't think that I saw more than a 1000 ads a day.  I don't watch to much TV, or spend a bunch of time on social media, so I felt as if that number was much to high. But over the past few days, I've really looked for ads, and I've realized that I definitely do see about that many ads.  From billboards and buses, to sponsored Instagram posts, ads in front of YouTube videos or that come u

On April 21st, 2018, there was a Neo-Nazi Rally held in the small town of Newnan, which is located in Georgia.  However, depending on where you read about the event, it sounds very different. Fox News had an  article  entitled Neo-Nazi Rally near Atlanta Remains Mostly Peaceful, Officers say, whereas an article from the New York times was titled  Neo-Nazi rally draws about 2 dozen people, and upends a small Georgia city .  From the titles alone, a difference between the coverage is evident. The New York Times article focuses on the fact that the rally only drew in a few people, yet still had a large impact on the town, whereas the Fox News article points out how it was mainly peaceful. But beyond the title, there were many differences between the coverage of the event in the two articles. Both articles detailed the 700 plus police officers in attendance, but Fox News said they were in riot gear, but the New York times simply said that they were wearing black helmets and clothes.  By ca

My relationship with media is slightly complicated in that I feel that it is both good and bad, and can't completely side one way or the other.  Compared to many of my peers, I have a lot less interaction with media. For example, I don't have snapchat, and I don't spend much, if any, time watching TV in my free time.  However, I do spend a decent amount of my time, free or otherwise, on my phone or computer, either scrolling through Instagram, texting friends, playing games, or watching pointless videos.  To a certain extent, I think this is good, as I do really enjoy this down time in my day, but I do know that it also does cause me to take longer to do simple tasks, and isn't great for me.   I do think that communication is very important, and I feel that through texting and social media I'm able to talk to my friends and family at times when I wouldn't be able to do otherwise, and I don't want to lose that. Sending letters or waiting to see each other in