Wednesday, September 24, 2014

Is Bigger Always Better ?

What is a newspaper? When I think of a newspaper, all I think about is something to eat crabs on. The one time I ever read a news paper was during my high school basketball career, the Baltimore Sun wrote and article about me. Other than that I dont read newspapers. Like why go buy a newspaper when you have all these news channels and all theses news apps that you can download onto your phone? Its really a waste of paper in my opinion. I honestly believe that community newspapers like the Dundalk Eagle will be the only newspapers left in the near future. I believe this because community newspapers are not in the forms of apps, they are something that if you want to find out about whats happening in your specific community you will have to read about it. The news stations on Television don't really go into specific detail about whats going on in a community. Lets say for example a pair of students for Dundalk High School make it onto honor roll 4 years in a row during their high school career. These students would not be mentioned in a news paper such as USA today, but they would definitely be mentioned in the Dundalk Eagle. It is very impressive for a student to make honor roll every year in high school so they should be recognized for their accomplishments. That's why I think that the bigger news papers like USA today will eventually be over run by apps and the internet, and eventually stop being printed. The world is taking a huge turn toward technology and everything paper will soon be forgotten about. Like I always say... Its the little things that count! And that is exactly what the smaller news papers write about, the small things!!



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Saturday, September 20, 2014

Magazines... Can't Live With Them Can't Live Without Them

ARE CELEBRITIES REALLY ALL THAT?? We all see the long-haired, blue-eyed, perfect bodied women, and the muscles coming from everywhere men in today's magazines. But are they really what we think they are? Should we as today's society judge ourselves on the way these people look? If you ask me I would say HELL NO in a heart beat!


People today are so self conscious, everybody has to look better than the next person. Honestly I don't give a damn on how somebody looks, or if they look better than me. All I care about is if somebody is working harder than me, and if that's the case then ima work harder.

Most of the time, the pictures you see in magazines have you like... WHAT THE HELL IS THIS! I would love to know who actually wants to look like this guy ?
Like seriously if you want to look like him, then you should just kill yourself. Like im pretty sure this guy can't put on a suit, or even a shirt and tie for that matter. What job is he getting besides lifting weights for the rest of his life.




Sometimes magazines relate to every day people. Attached Parenting is a big dispute. Many people believe that it's up to the child on when breast feeding should be finished and other's believe that when the child is old enough to talk that breast feeding should be stopped. This cover is not trying to give off this image of a perfect women. It's intended to be a everyday mother.
 
On the other hand, some magazines just shouldn't be allowed to be published. Like how is this magazine cover demonstrating anything positive? Our younger generation see this and all they think of is SMOKING and SEX. How is this sending a positive message? How is this showing children right from wrong? We need to give good examples, not telling children to "BLOW UP"