The Dark Night

I havent seen this movie yet but everything that i have heard about it is awesome. All the commercials and ratings say that the acting was fantastic, especially with Heith Ledger's role as the joker. Its supposed to be a great movie, and it is extra long so that makes it even better if it is as great as everyone says it is. I cant wait to see it.

The shooting that happened yesterday

I havent actually looked it up but yesterday in class we got on the subject of the shooting that happened over in Europe. They said that a man went and shot like nine people and then shot himself. He later died in the hospital from the wound. That is too bad. The worst part is that it will probably have concequences even over here. Hopefully they dont try to just make more gun laws here. Gun laws arent gonna stop violence so why should all the responsible people have to be punished for one stupid one.

The future of magazines

What will the future of magazines be? A few magazines such as Slate are all online now. I personally hope that magazines dont end up all online. I think it is much more enjoyable to acctually have a magazine in your hand. I am not the kind of person who likes sitting in front of the computer all day and that is what you would have to do if everything you read was online. I, for one, think that not everything should be online.

Scary future

I thought that the parts of this movie that we watched in class really helped prove a point. Even though it was really over dramatized from the real world it was a good example for showing that we need to fight the banning of books. It is no where near that bad in real life but there are books that people want banned. Some have better reasons than others but everyone should always be wary of how far it might be taken. Free speech is very important and we need to protect it.

Reaction to chapter three

This chapter was all about how books are a part of the mass media and that they are a great way to get very good information on about everything you need. Lately though, since the internet and other reasons, fewer people seem to be using this valuable resource. The book brought up a neat issue though. The Harry Potter novels. Since these have come out there has shown to be an increase in younger people reading more books. And not just the Harry Potter books themselves, but there seemed to be an increase in kids checking out more books in general in libraries. Some sources in the book thought that the Harry Potter novels helped to revive books in the younger generation. I have read some of the books and i loved them too.

Ok that link didnt work

Ill try it again you can go to this site and look at it. Like i said, it is pretty interesting. I had no idea that people watch that much tv.

Im going to try to link a site to my blog.

I was working on my mass media paper and found an internet site that had some statistics on how much TV people watch. It's pretty amazing how much we do watch. You should go look at the site it might make you decide not to watch as much TV. The tv is still by far the most widely used form of mass media that we use.

Readings on chapter one

I thought that chapter one in our textbook had a lot of interesting information. The part that I most enjoyed reading about was the history of written language. The book explained how writing started out as very complicated diagrams that stood for some object or idea. It was very complicated and difficult to read and write so only a select few people could read or write. As time passed though, symbols started being used that stood for sounds and when they were put together they made words. That was the beginning of the written language we have today. It was very interesting.

Hello class!

My name is Trevor and this is my first blog ever. I didn't have much trouble figuring it out so i think everyone else can too. If I can do it then so can you.