Lebron James is too good at basketball

freak…

Michael Jordan is still the best

Censorship on TV

Programming is what attracts audiences to television but advertising is the primary means of revenue generation for most networks and stations.  In a situation when 1) specific broadcast programming is attacked for containing too much “skin and sin” by traditional family values groups, 2) advertisers are inundated with thousands of email, letters and telephone calls [...]

Cable TV vs Telephone Companies

The questions
5. In the coming years Cable TV will face very real competition from the telephone companies for customers. Give the competitive advantages of each industry and the efforts both have made in Congress and at the FCC to deal with perceived inequities in the competitive landscape.
Comprehensive Examination Question #5
Andrea P. Fuller
I. Cable Industry
A. Competitive [...]

Children, Obesity, and the Media

Questions
#7

I.                   Obesity
a.       What contributes to childhood obesity
                                                              i.      Media influence on eating habits
1.      Product Placement
2.      Commercials (Preoperational Stage- not being able to tell the difference between a commercial and the program; don’t understand the advertiser’s intent)
3.      Endorsements (e.g. Spongebob cereal)
                                                            ii.      Eating between meals, convenience meals
                                                          iii.      Sedentary lifestyle (being lazy)
                                                          iv.      Genetics
                                                            v.      Parenting [...]

Tell Me what you think

This is an experiment…
1. Review the theoretical underpinnings of persuasive messages in relation to specific audiences, taking into account at least three of the following constructs: agenda setting, diffusion of innovation, central and peripheral processing, cognitive dissonance, source credibility, reasoned action, two-step flow, selectivity, expectancy-value and fear appeals.  As a writer/producer, which basic model would [...]

70’s show analysis

That Seventies show                           
 
The episode of That Seventies Show “Sunday, Bloody Sunday” is a good work of art as a whole because it has substance and deeper meaning but lacks the humor that would normally be associated with the characters.  Even when evaluating this one episode, there must be some context particularly because the episode [...]

A poem inspired by the Wire

A Witness
 
A witness
Is an idiot
For helping the cop
Not very bright
 
Darwin’s nightmare
Adapt or die
Keep quiet or die
Law conflicts with evolution
 
Can’t see the forest but for the trees
We are the forest
Structure is a tree
Nature still applies

I can’t believe the professor encouraged me to write on this topic

Powder Road: a primer in drug trafficking
                       
“Always there is more”—The Greek
 
Drugs are a commodity, like many others, in that they are produced, distributed, and sold—by individuals or corporations—to make a profit. Like many other products, the people at the beginning and the end of the distribution chain are the people making the least amount [...]

12 oz. mouse

Alex Churchill3/22/06                                                12 oz. mouse            12 oz. mouse is a cartoon series that airs on Cartoon Network at 1 am on Sunday nights.  It is in its first season with about 7 episodes so far and each episode is 15-20 minutes long usually without commercial interruption.  The animation is of the lowest quality on [...]

Episode of “Entourage”

                                                                                               
Entourage
 
 This is a show that follows a rising movie star and his entourage, consisting of his older brother Johnny, his manager Eric and his friend Turtle as they run around the Hollywood scene.  Each episode always includes several Hollywood cameos and the show was created and produced by Mark Walburg.
The opening sequence is a sped [...]