Magazines and advertising iparticipate6

Ben Browning

Everyone knows that you cant read a magazine without seeing some ads.  The difference is what magazine you read.  It's pretty obvious that there are different ads with certain magazines.  For example; you read People magazine you see ads for beauty merchandise like make up, skin clear, and others.  You read Sports Illustrated there are ads for sport equipment, Dicks sporting goods, and even ads for gym memberships.

It's kinda amazing how related the ads are to the story you read in those magazines.  I read a story in People magazine about how Angelina Jolie is breaking out, and the next page there was an ad for proactive skin care.  These companies place their ads perfectly so they can get the consumer thinking more and really focus on buying their product.  The consumer does this without even realizing it most of the time.  It's all in the consumers subconscious.

I don't believe there is much of a firewall.  Most of the time these ads are so closely related to the story by the editor the I think it gets the consumer thinking even more about the story they just read.  With that being said there are some moments where the ad doesn't really have much to do with the story which could throw the reader for a loop.  In that case if I was the editor I wouldn't be too pleased with the ad.  With that being said I believe the editor shouldn't have a problem with the ad as long as it has to do somewhat with the story they wrote.

Yes I believe there can be a balance between ads and the stories the editor publishes.  Like I said as long as the ad has to do with the story I don't see why it would be a problem.  If the ad doesn't have to do with the story then don't run the ad.  If they stick with that then I believe it will be a perfect balance between the two.       

Foreigners In American Made Films: Iparticipate 5

Ben Browning

American films can sometimes be offensive to the foreigners in the films.  Sometimes it gives foreigners a good name in films.  It all depends on the film and what kind of movie it is.  For example, in war movies we see foreigners as enemies because they were during that time.  When people see those movies they automatically think that those type of foreigners are bad people.  We stereotype when we see movies.  in other movies such as slumdog millionaire and Rush Hour 2, that take place in a foreign country, we can somewhat relate to them because we see how they live. 

As I said before war movies such as Lone Survivor makes the audience hate the foreigners in the film but because they are enemies at that time.  Just because they are enemies in that movie does not mean that all of their people are like that.  Later on in that movie the main character receives help from some local foreigners.  I enjoy this part of the movie because it shows that everyone in that area are not bad people.  As I said before when American made films take place in other countries it shows how they live and how foreigners are not much different then us Americans.

I do not think the foreigners skin color or anything of that matter make a difference on how we picture them in movies.  I believe it all matters on how the movie portrays the foreign characters.  Just like a foreign love interest is exotic and a foreign leader can be intimidating and cause the audience not to like that specific character.  Yes some movies portray foreign characters as bad people but that does not mean that all foreign character of that nationality are bad people.

I believe that a lot of  American movies show us foreigners as us Americans see them.  Which is not right, but the film makers do this for the film.  The audience members need to look pas this and understand that it is just a movie and it is not like that in real life.  Some films show a positive side of foreign countries.  

         

Ownership in Radio

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I listen to the radio quite often because I am a delivery driver.  So you could say that this iparticipate caught mu attention.  My favorite radio stations are 101.1, 100.7, 104.5, and a couple of others.  I found it fascinating that Direct T.V. owns all these radio stations.  Not only does Direct T.V. own those radio stations but they own almost all the radio stations in Bowling Green and probably a lot more throughout the country.

I have noticed that there are a lot of country radio stations in Bowling Green, which doesn't surprise me because country is most likely the most popular type of music in this area.  I have also noticed that there are no rap stations or "urban" stations, as my list calls it, in this area.  That's probably because not that many people listen to that type of music in this area.  Which is good for that one rap station because everybody who wants to listen to rap will tune into that station.

These radio stations do not show much diversity.  There are about 10 country stations before there is one rap station.  That is not diversity.  They do have a rap station and a rock station but not too many.  This is diversity but not the best that it can be.  Now this necessarily is not a bad thing.  If you're a radio company then obviously your going to want to play country because that is what most people listen to in the area.  So you can blame the radio stations for lack of diversity.  You can blame the citizens in the area.

I believe that there are some new developments to radio that can help improve radio, such as siri radio.  this radio gives better quality and gives you a more wide range amount of radio stations.  Siri radio can give you 20 rap stations and 20 country stations.  I know a lot of people who use this and love it.

BG Daily News

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The BG Daily News is the local newspaper company in Bowling Green.  Their newspapers are not doing too great but they are not doing too bad either.  A lot of people still read the newspaper in Bowling Green, mostly old people, but they still get decent business.  Their website is up to date and very easy to get information and understand.  Its obvious that they get most of their income from adds.  While on the newspapers they have a lot of local adds.  On their website they have a lot of nation wide, big company adds.

It seems that the people of Bowling Green are a big fan of the sports section in the paper.  Especially the local sports, like their high schools.  I have found out that they discuss high school sports in their paper more than they discuss WKU sports team.  I find this interesting because WKU sports are pretty big and WKU is really good at sports. 

In the BG Daily News they talk about the local court system and the local sports quite a bit.  They do not really discuss WKU that much at all.  Obviously if something important happened on campus then it would be a big section in the paper, but if nothing important is happening at WKU then the paper does not talk about it. 

Overall I am impressed with the BG Daily News.  Their website is impressive with how updated it is.  I think their website is what is keeping them in business.  I do wish that they talked about WKU more because I feel that the citizens of Bowling Green would like more information about WKU.

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Top 20 Movies of the last year

Ben's top 20 movies of the past year:

20. BlackMass
19. Nice Guys
18. Money Monster
17. Krampus
16. Everest
15. Spotlight
14. The Shallows
13. Lights Out
12. 10 Cloverfeild Lane
11. The Conjuring 2
10. X-Men Apocalypse
9. The Martian
8. Zootopia
7. Captain America: Civil War
6. The Hateful 8
5. The Revenant
4. Star Treck Beyond
3. Spectre
2. Sicario
1. Deadpool


A lot of the movies on this list are not original screen plays.  They're some that are original but most of them are not.  Most of the movies on this list are adapted from some book, comic, or even just some story.  They're not many movies that are original ideas anymore.  About 15 of my top 20 movies in the past year are based off of books, comics, or previous movies.

For example, obviously, X-Men, Deadpool, and Captain America are based off of comic books.  Movies get their material from comic books a lot more than people think.  They're millions of comic books out there and every super hero movie is loosely based off of a comic book.  Everest is based off of a very popular book that I have actually read.  The book is called "Left For Dead: My Journey Home From Everest" By: Beck Weathers.  This is a prime example of how many movies are made after books.

A lot of times books will write books after movies.  I never really understood this, I guess because i'm not much of a reader, but these books usually do pretty well.  You have seen those books that have the same cover as the movie poster.  I feel like those books are the exact same as the movie and I don't really understand why anybody would read them but hey, its working pretty well for the authors.

Personally I believe that movies most of the time over shadow books, especially movies that are made after books.  Yes I know people always say that the books are always better than the movies, and I believe that.  It's just I would rather see the movie and understand the premise of the book in 2 hours than read the whole book that's going to take me weeks to finish.