Kate

Kate's Media Log

I t's weird how intertwined our lives are with the media. I go through life not even realizing the type of messages that I'm practically brainwashed to believe. It is horrible to think that I am the way I am and believe in the things I believe because of what I see and hear. How many thoughts are really are own? Media conveys the message that we are our own people and we can be free thinkers, but the hidden messages they deliver with ads or commercials or articles are really influencing out lives more than we can ever realize. How do we know how we really feel about religion or beauty or our own lives when the media is constantly sending us messages and values that counter our true feelings. If we follow any sort of commercial belief, are we still unique? Or are we now conforming into the same people with the same desires? How unique can we really be if we all follow the same advice and message from the media? I pride myself in thinking that I am a unique individual.....but am I really?




 * I T'S AMAZING HOW RIGHT HAL IS.....ALL WE DO IN OUR SOCIETY IS WATCH THE LIVES OF OTHERS! DOES THAT MEAN WE ARE JUST BORED OF OUR OWN? THE STUPIDEST VIDEOS WE CAN IMAGINE ARE POSTED ON SITE LIKE YOUTUBE WITH AN UNIMAGINABLE NUMBER OF VIEWS. HOW DO PEOPLE SPEND THEIR LIVES JUST WATCHING OTHERS RUN THEIRS? WHAT'S THE APPEAL? I HAVE A HARD TIME WATCHING REALITY SHOWS BECAUSE TO BE HONEST, I JUST DON'T CARE! I HAVE MY OWN PROBLEMS AND I DON'T REALLY FIND ENTERTAINMENT IN WATCHING OTHERS TRY TO SOLVE THEIRS. I PREFER SCRIPTED TELEVISION BECAUSE IT'S ALL THOUGHT OUT AND FICTIONAL. I FIND THAT MORE ENTERTAINING THEN A BUNCH OF TANNED FREAKS //BITCHING// ABOUT THEIR PROBLEMS AND HAVING STUPID ARGUMENTS ABOUT WHY THE TANNING BED IS BROKEN OR HOW HUNGOVER THEY ARE. PEOPLE LIKE ME......//DON'T CARE!// I HAVE MY OWN PROBLEMS TO DEAL WITH AND I JUST DON'T UNDERSTAND THE APPEAL OF WATCHING OTHERS. **

P op culture today is very mainstream. It is such an obsession in the community that people must be involved with everything. Having the new iPhone or hearing the latest gossip. Pop culture surrounds us and half the time, we don't even see it!

Is pop culture just a natural part of life? Or does it affect us more than we think?

We have to stop and wonder how much pop culture really affect our lives. It is so intertwined with our lives that it is hard to identify whats our own thought, and the thought brainwashed into us. True beauty is questioned when we have to constantly see and hear ads telling us //how// to look beautiful. Our subconscious mind picks up on the influences around us and sometimes, we end up following what we are told in ads and forget to look at the true meaning behind it. Celebrity influence also takes a toll on our minds when we start to follow our favourite celebrity styles or lives. We may claim to be unique individuals, but are we really?





T he latest celebrity gossip has been around the royal family. Prince William married Catherine Middleton on April 29th, 2011. The publicity surrounding that wedding and the happy couple afterwards is extraordinary! The wedding itself was a huge public event and now the couple has to be bombarded with paparazzi regarding a baby! It was an amazing world renown event that is a huge milestone, but the publicity around it and the constant hype was annoying in itself! All over T'V and around stores were William and Kate photos, posters, calenders, magazines. Even copies of Kate's ring is on sale. This happy couple's lives are now constantly watched by the public and judged. Even the news surrounding their "baby" is broadcasted everywhere, including possibly baby names! As if it's really the worlds decision as to what William and Kate will name their child. I am British myself and I did watch part of the wedding, but even my father who was born in Britain and follows the politics regularly didn't find a point to follow just a simple wedding. He even feels as if the mass public display was overdone and the media is overselling what should have been a simple beautiful act. William and Kate are forever destined to be in the public's eye. Never left alone.



S omething that caught my eye was the provincial elections and the reaction from the low voter number. It was all over the news about the reactions from citizens to the low number of votes and how many were truly infuriated. This issue doesn't bother me to such high extent. I believe that "If people won't come out to vote, they are giving up their right to complain." <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">There are also many people who did go out to vote, many including students. I found it very inspiring about how involved they were in the elections.

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<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">This is a short video about the issues students are concerned about when voting.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">What also caught my attention is how election commercials have changed into such rude pathetic videos. Election commercials used to provide details about what the candidate would do when elected. Most were lies but at least it put idea's into the viewers head. With many of the 2011 provincial elections, the ads bashed the other candidate. To me, this says "I'm afraid he's/she's going to win, so I'm going to bash them." I cannot vote myself, but if I could, my vote would lean towards the candidate with the ideas, no matter how unrealistic, rather than the candidate who spends his/her time bashing the others. Clearly they is afraid or have nothing better to offer the country so he/she spends his time trying to come up with creative, yet actually stupid, views on his/her other candidate.

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