I’m so sorry, my dearest blog, that I have been ignoring you lately. I can give you my excuses, tell you what I’ve been up to, but it still doesn’t make things right. I will tell you, however, that I have successfully completed my 19 units and the editorship at the Daily Sundial. Grades are yet to come, but I’m feeling pretty good about everything as a whole. All I ask is that you forgive me, dear blog, and I promise that I will be better now that winter break is upon us. (side note: waiting for grades is frustrating..but oh I am going to miss academia) See, I’m here now. I put you on my check list (in between cleaning the kitchen and picking up the boyfriend) and I am coming back to you. I’m here for good.
Anyways, I have had a thought and I have an announcement.
Thought: Has anyone else noticed the feud between AT&T and Verizon. Apparently, they both sued each other for making the other look bad in commercials and now you can’t watch TV at all without seeing Luke Wilson talking about how awesome AT&T is or flinging a postcard on a giant, fake map. Don’t get me wrong, I understand it. Capitalism, blah, blah, competition, blah, blah, free-market economy, blah, blah. I’ll let you in on a little secret though: I love it. I love seeing the competition. Although right now it hasn’t quite affected their products (I’m an AT&T user.. Go iPhone! haha just kidding.. and I have yet to see a real improvement on their carrier service and I have friends using Verizon who have yet to see an improvement on their customer service) it is nonetheless bound to happen. Seeing the competition between the two shows that at least they are thinking about it. Now if only Boost Mobile or Spring could get themselves into the game. We’d all have something fun to watch.
How this ties into me: I was thinking about the competition between newspapers. And not just monetarily. Every organization in the industry has a slant. Some are incredibly obvious like Fox News and MSNBC but its everywhere. Now, with AT&T and Verizon, there are obvious slants to the commercials; its advertisement after all. AT&T wants you to think they are better and Verizon wants the same thing. Everyone can understand and recognize those biases, those commercials are trying to sell something. But, what happens when similar things begin to happen, that there are only two points of view in all newspapers. The thought is just frightening to me. But as we are all condensing and each journalist is responsible for so many parts of the story, it seems that we may already be heading in that direction. People don’t even think about looking for biases in the news most of the time. I mean yes, they can recognize that there are obvious slants, but people don’t go out of their way to understand how their news is being filtered. One person with a vendetta can ruin someones perspective on something by producing slanted news. yes, its the individuals responsibility to check out the stories they read but in the end who really does?
Anyways, that was just a thought. To be explored more at later date I suppose.
My announcement: I am now officially writing for an online music magazine called greenshoelace (Greenshoelace.com) Check out my first story!
Anyways, its getting to be that time to pick up Nick but I hope the journey through my brain was worth the wait. Until next time.
