Media Issues Assignment Reflection

Media bias is extremely important to understand because it can deter people from the truth.  Researching Fox and NBC media bias made it very clear where each station stands on news coverage.  This project opened my eyes to the misinformation being informed to millions of people that just take sides without hearing the whole story and regurgitate the bias information they heard to their family and friends, leading to even more amounts of people that are being misled.  In addition, this project has taught me the importance of listening and watching several different news stations in order to get a better understanding of both sides of a topic. 

3rd Media Review: Doritos Ultrasound Super Bowl Commercial of 2016

The commercial presents a pregnant wife with her husband who is eating Doritos while the doctor is conducting an ultra sound.  As the ultrasound continues, the husband begins to notice that the baby moves to where he points the Dorito.  At this point, the husband throws the Dorito, which sends the baby leaping out of the womb for the Dorito in a hysterical fashion. I could not help but burst into laughter when I saw this commercial.  Doritos are so good that even unborn babies want them.  

2nd Media Review with a couple interesting blog links

The novel Of Mice and Men is an easily memorable emotionally touching story that brings about the problems in America and the problems faced when people try to achieve their American dream.  The book emphasizes the lack of women equality by Curly’s wife not having her own name but the name of a man’s property.  Likewise, the book emphasizes the racial discrimination by mentioning how Crooks a black man is segregated from the other men, given less opportunity, and mistreated by several other characters in the book.  While highlighting the problems with American society, the book emotional appeals to its audience with the close brotherly bond of George and Lennie.  The book constantly goes on about how men like them have no future and no family, but go on to mention that it is not true for them because they have each other to watch their backs.  In the book, Lennie constantly gets himself into trouble, not on purpose, but because he is autistic and George is always there to bail him out and try to make the world work for them.  Although, later in the book, there comes a point where Lennie does a really bad thing and accidentally kills a pup and Curly’s wife, which leads to George having to kill Lennie in order to prevent more accidental harm to the people and to not have to go searching for a new place to work.  I would recommend this book to people that enjoy and do not enjoy reading because this is a book that most people who don’t like reading, like reading.

Here’s a couple more interesting blogs:

http://sethgodin.typepad.com/

Sidetracked

The Vane

Primer

First Media Review: South Park: Member Berries

Personally, South Park is my all-time favorite go to show.  I will watch South Park on Hulu for countless hours on end without ever feeling unsatisfied.  South Park is a great show that takes trending news and formats it into a hysterical story line.  Most recent, South Park's episode called "Member Berries", capitalizes on the National Anthem protests, internet trolling, presidential election, "black lives matter", transgender issues, and conservatism.  For example in the episode,  people went to a volleyball game to watch volley ball players sit out the National Anthem and then left right after, which I found completely humorous because they literally had the stands filled with people that just wanted to see who would sit out the national anthem and at the end they recorded the amount of people sitting out as the final score as if that was the actual game.  Later in the episode, the National Anthem was revised to "Please stand or sit or take a knee" for the National Anthem, which left protesters clueless of what to do, and leaving Trump helpless to get people to hate him for the outrages things he does in order to get people to vote for Hillary.  That is just two scenes that probably lasted two minutes in a thirty minute episode,  just to show this episode is packed with entertainingly funny and relevant scenes.  Can't beat it.  I recommend this show to anyone that wants to have a great time filled with endless laughter. 5 out of 5.

Journal Assignment: Review Summary

For my Journal Project, media usage was recorded from September 12, 2016 to September 18, 2016.  The media usage for this week was extremely typical.  For the week, I used my daily media going through my usual routine of school, work and going to the gym.  I am very busy during the week and refrain from media use while in class or at work.  On the other hand, I listen to music through Pandora or YouTube to power through workouts.  In the little free time I have, I spend it playing video games such as Doom, watching shows and movies on Hulu or Netflix, or browsing through Facebook, Snapchat, and Instagram.

After evaluating my media use, I learned that I spend almost all my free time for media usage, demonstrating that I should use my free time more wisely and find things to do to be more productive.

Check out these 3 Interesting Blogs!

1. http://ashlylparedes.blogspot.com/
2. http://laurenselectronicmediablog.blogspot.com/
3. http://oliveemartiniii.blogspot.com/

About me

Hello everyone,
my name is Brandon Kline and my current major is Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM).  I am in my third semester at Frederick Community College.  I am taking Introduction to Media to complete an arts requirement for a biology major at the University of Maryland (UMD).  I plan on transferring to a four-year university such as UMD and then to get into medical school to pursue a career as a General Practitioner.

Furthermore, I am a lab technician at the United States Army Medical Research Institute for infectious diseases (USAMRIID).  I work part-time, processing experimental requests and working towards my own publication.  I prepare infected samples for transmission electron microscopy and image the samples through the electron microscope.  I am working towards a publication in method development for Correlative Light and Electron Microscopy (CLEM).

Aside from school and work, I am a fitness enthusiast, training three hours a day for six days a week.  My training consists of powerlifting and bodybuilding elements.  My lifting routine, in general, is legs, torso, arms, rest and repeat.  I begin my workouts with a compound movement such as bench, squat or deadlift.  After a compound movement, I do plyometric exercises and then isolation movements.  I plan to participate and place in powerlifting meets and bodybuilding competitions.