Media Coverage

"The media (plural) love it when someone makes the news easy for them and they can just go on and on and on – in spite of the facts!"by Charlie Leck

To me that saying couldn't be more true. The media tell us whatever they want without getting the facts. because of the lack of facts or because they really don't care about the other side of the story they make people believe things are so much better or worse than they really are. For example I don't think the war is as bad as they say. I haven't seen a lot of article if any at about the success the military has had. But I can find them about body count or bad things that make the war seem that much worse.

Also to me the new always seems to be slow. For example I was looking for anything about the shooting at ICC. I was looking everywhere online newspapers and the 5 mins of news on Sundays, But there was nothing. It took more than 24 hours for someone to write a article about what happened and I was only able to find 1 thing about it besides the news on TV. So to me the media industries needs to be changed in order to get the right information.

Me as a writer

In order for me to write anything there has to certain physical conditions. Since I really do not like writing I won't do it unless everything is perfect. I have to be able to move around. I cannot write while I am hungry or thirsty.

Because I need to be able to move around to think what I am going to write next my keyboard and mouse cords have to untangled and have extra slack. I wouldn't be able stretch because when I sit still for a period of time I begin to dose off and my legs get sore. Because I am always thirsty I always have a drink next to me I don't care what it is but when I start to write it has to be full because if I go refill it I get distracted and forget about the paper.

I like to write the main points of the paper as fast as I can. On my first draft I really don't care about any the detail or spelling or grammar mistakes. after I get done with the main idea I take a couple day break and the night before it is due I go and correct everything and add any of the small detail that I might of missed.

These are the main ways i write papers. There are several more conditions that need to be perfect but my drink needs a refill and i wont remember to publish this if i dont do it now.

Video Games GOOD vs BAD

Video games have been huge in the news a couple of years back. But not in a good way, There were a ton of groups trying to block video games from young teens because violent ones like grand Theft Auto or halo. There were several studies that proved that vidoeo games are bad for you and they may cause the player to be become violent.

To me this is all a bunch of crap. There is no way a normal teenager is going to play a game of Grand Theft Auto and then get the idea that this would be fun to do in real life. There has to be something wrong with the person in the first place. These groups have successfully made it harder to buy these violent video games. but it is just a nuisance to the parents because they now have to make the trip to the store and buy it for their kid. To me some of games need to be 18+ but they have put 18+ on every game that is just a little bit violent. Some of the reason why these groups believe video games are bad: mental strain, sleep deprive and many other.

Since there have been studies about how video games make people violent. Video Gamers have done studies to show that playing video games have many beneficial benefits to it. Many of these violent video game require the player to use their mind and come up with the best way to achieve a goal. Most of the violent games also have some sort of live feature which in turn allows the player to interact with people all around the world improving their communication skill.

W2- Case Study- I am not a writer

I am not a writer. To me Writing and myself do not go together all the time. If I were to ever become a writer I would need major improvements. To me the hardest parts of writing a paper for a class are the introduction and the conclusion. After a while I will come up with a good intro but I can spend several days on the conclusion and still not have a good one to use. I am also a very bad speller and if it wasn't for spell check I wouldn't have a single word correct on my paper and most of the time I don't use the word I want just because I don't feel like putting in the extra few moments to find out how to spell it.

If I were to be able to pick the topic and not have to worry about the grade I think I would be able to easily write the paper with ease. Week ones blog to me was very easy everything just flowed out of me and I was done in 10mins. But I cannot write worth a crap when I comes to a certain subject I don't care about like writing a paper about how I write. To me those papers always turn out to be lower quality then the ones where I pick the topic.