As the director of a local television station I have two breaking news stories to share with our viewers. I have decided to report about the vote of the city council to close the city parks three days a week to save money. The second story we will report on will be the death of a celebrity.

I decided to go with the council vote as my lead story because of the impact it has on the local population. Closing down the parks for three days will force the parents to find alternative places for their children to play. In today’s society children recreation is defined by Xbox, Wii and PlayStation. With rise of obesity among our children limiting the availability of the parks for the sake of money is poor politics. The city council should reconvene to find new approaches to saving money besides closing city parks. One submission is that we as a local television station can help promote a fund-raiser for the sole purpose of raising fund to keep the parks open for one or three of the days.

Reporting on the death of a celebrity does not have the local concern of effect of the city parks story. Another reason I have chosen to make this my secondary story is that this story will possibly be reported on a larger media outlet. As a local television media we believe committed to our hometown citizens should be focus. Also putting the celebrity’s death second still keep our local informed of national news. By us reporting about the death of the actor will still maintain whatever rating we would have gotten if we reported it first.

As a local television station we have an advantage over the large media station because we the opportunity to keep locals informed of all four regions of news. Local, state, national, and world news are all at our disposal to report. Another advantage we have is the interest we have from the local without spending millions of advertisement dollar to draw an audience. The one disadvantage we have as a local television station is that important as the city council’s vote is to our community, the rest of the public will never know how politics have disrupted the live of this small community. If this were a large metropolitan area we would worry about ratings, but ratings are secondary to effects of our reporting to local viewers. Even with this one disadvantage we feel reporting of our local news is priceless to our faithful viewers.

Changing how media reports breaking news has become so varied that we can gain access through radio, television, Internet, newspaper, and telephones. 100 years ago if we had to make a choice between the council’s vote and celebrity’s death, I think for certain the local news event would win out. The council vote may have gotten notoriety 50 years ago by the state or national television station, but it would be a secondary story to the death of a celebrity just as it would be today. The size of the television station determines what story will come first. Local to report local first and state, national and world news station are beholden to their genre.

The effect of relationships among television, movies, and electronic games on culture is two-fold. These Medias are driven by the cultures likes and dislikes. In return the culture dictates how these media affect the economy.

Movies and television shows often depict real life situation from various point of view. The Cosby Show showed the lifestyle of an upper middle-class black family and their everyday circumstances and how the mirrored the life of the average family. Many of the shows on television are reality-based because that type of platform is the drawing card for ratings on television. Reality shows like American Idol, Dancing with the Star and America’s Got Talent have taken the spotlight with the ratings. Next there are the Detective and Investigative shows, which draw the audiences’ curiosity as to how crimes and crime scenes are dissected. Shows like the Kardashians, Sinbad, and The Braxton Family Values open the homes of these families to public scrutiny.

Movies that are popular with the public must have a major celebrity, action, creative, unique, common or related personal value and great advertising. Movies that have major celebrities tend to draw an outstanding audience at its’ premier because of the star. If the movie does not have the pizzazz, action or creativity the movie is usually not popular at the box office. Consider the movie Avatar, which showed great creativity and uniqueness in how it was produced and marketed. Animated movies have taken over the children’s movie genre. Talking animals and outlandish looking creatures dominate what children are interested in viewing. Concerning the series only The Harry Potter movies have the appeal to movies goers like The Rocky Movies Series.

Electronic games have their positive and negative influences on the young and the old. Over the past years electronic games have become more physically interactive to accommodate what the public asked for. Games like Wii, Xbox and PlayStation took the electronic game world by storm. The handheld games have taken a backseat to these types of game media. They took playing games to the next level by having popular games like basketball, baseball and football to the internet to compete with player from around the world. Then the next step was to put ting a player in the field of play with the X-rated combat games. The blood and sex portrayed in these games have stirred up controversy in society, but nevertheless the sales have been outstanding and profitable. It shows the value of advertising in the promotion of any item.

Over the past few years electronic have been positive for the population, because of the interactive aspect. Children now can get up and be active while playing game and not be as sedimentary as they were before. The games are now purchased by senior home to help get senior up and moving, also. Because of the popularity and sale of these games, prices have become more affordable to everyone. In addition to popularity, competitiveness in gaming media has helped to keep and make games more affordable.