I knew that writing this post was going to be a bit hard then, having not attended a lecture I was suppose to discuss. But, thanks to the wonders of modern technology, I kind of felt that listening to the lecture recording gave me a good sense of what the lecture was like.
So the lecture was all about this Steve Molk guy. A blogger apparently, although that is apparently a cringeworthy title. So, a TV commentator first who blogs about TV. But blogger nonetheless.
I don't understand why he was so upset by that. Or indeed why being a blogger has this sort of 'cringeworthy' feeling tied to it. I mean, as Steve mentioned, blogging helped people in Egypt get their opinions across, that's what a blog is for. To help people and to give people a voice.
When I write my blog, I try to link it back to something that happened every single day throughout history. Everyday something does happen. News is constantly being made, the world is constantly turning, people constantly moving and we never know all of it. I don't aspire to know and understand the whole world but I feel like through my blog I can learn something I maybe never would have learned otherwise. I mean, I didn't know about that woman who had a baby with her student. Another thing, I knew there was war, but I didn't realise how much war and rioting and death is happening constantly.
What I found that Steve Molk's blog and Twitter posts do is something similar. He posts reviews, recaps and his basic understanding of certain TV shows. He gives his opinion. He wants to help other people understand these shows better by giving them another perspective, another point of view that maybe they'll be able to align with.
I think that what Steve Molk's is doing can kind of relate back to what I'm doing. In a sense, I'm presenting another point of view, another perspective, by re-presenting news that might otherwise have been lost. In turn, people who see the news might be able to further understand other things. For example, in the hit TV show friends, Ross and Rachel are on a flight to Las Vegas and they are playing practical jokes on another. Ross tells one of the other passengers sitting nearby that Rachel was the teacher that had a baby with one of her students. Although I found the joke slightly funny, I didn't know who the woman was and didn't even know if it had happened in real life. BUT when finding stories for my blog I came across it and now I can understand the joke better. That's what I want other people to experience. Reading something to better understand something else.
So, I'm going to keep going with this blog even after this assessment is finished. I might tweak it a little. The kind of journalist that I want to be is a video journalist and to work in foreign countries. I want to work for the ABC or SBS and make documentaries and travel the world and let other people know what else is out there happening in the big old world. So, with my blog, no more lecture posts. I like writing posts about events across the world, things that happened in different countries. So, my understanding. To make sure that "Brand Me", as Steve suggested, is strong so that people can clearly see what I am doing, how I want to be perceived as a potential video journalist. Bring on the videos! Whoo!
And finally, on this day in 1997, in Trenton, New Jersey, child molester Jess K Timmendequas was convicted of raping and strangling seven-year-old Megan Kanka.
It was because of this incident that the inspired "Megan's Law" was created, which determines that communities must be notified if a sex offender moves into the area.
There you are. You are now wiser!
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