Part 1:
You are the news director of a local television station. The city council has just voted to close city parks 3 days a week to save money. Meanwhile, a major celebrity has died. The park story has greater effect on your viewers, but the celebrity death will get bigger ratings? Which do you make your lead story and why?
I would use the park story as my main story to report, because this is something that is going to affect the community whether it is good or bad. By releasing this to the community, they are able to react to what is going on and spread the word out the other people within that same community. The celebrity story would come second because this is a story that is going to be released worldwide so they will already know about the death. The death of this celebrity is not going to have an affect on what is happing in the community. I also want the viewers to know that our focus is on what is happing in the community. The celebrity death would be released over the Internet, radio, and on television. This is the same way that we will spread the information about the city closing down parks to save money. We could include different ways to how this will affect the city now and in the future. We could use this to the advantage of the people to figure out ways to raise money to keep the parks open and how they could save their community. The news station will still have the same ratings because they are targeting the local people and the people will spread the word to others to increase the ratings. We have to focus on what the viewers want to know. If we did not report anything about what is going on locally and the viewers found out about this, this could potentially affect the station because they would think that we do not care about what is going on in the community. We could add in the positive effects that I would have by closing the parks 3 times a week and add in the negative effects that I could have on the community. The views would be able to take in all the information and react to what is going on in their local neighborhoods. As the director of the local news station, this is how I would want everything reported because the community comes first and having them watch my station is how I am paid. This would be reported on the television and on the on the Internet website. I would have an entertainment section where I would report the celebrity death and much other information that is happening in the entertainment world. This would keep my rating where they are now and would not affect anything. I would not want my station known for not reporting community information. Reporting information about the community is how I obtained the ratings that I now have, so I have to continue to report what the people want to view. This is the most effective way to keep the station going without anyone losing trust in the station and to keep the same credibility with the viewers in the area. My job is to report what is going on locally and that will be at the top of the priority list because that is what the local news stations are there to report. We are here to report what is going in the local communities live and daily so that the people are informed.
Part 2:
Explain the effects of relationships among television, movies, and electronic games with culture.
During the past centuries or culture has changed and is reflected in the thing that we see happening around us today. The way that our different cultures are reflected on television and on movies is not what is actually happening in different areas around the world. Some of the things that see on television are from the past or things they that are happening in different parts of the world. Television and movies try to portray a small portion of things that happen in different areas, and some people are actually sheltered from this type of lifestyle. Some people know that the things that see are real and some thing that it is false, and then you have the few that actually go out and try to act out what they see on the television or movie. In the past when you viewed things on television or in movies it was based on how they wanted the people to view things happening in society. Now when you see these things on television they are most of the time what is happening in society, it may not be in your society but it is based on something that is happening around the world.
Many television shows and movies display actions that have happened or are happening in the world. The shows have included different situations that people have been through are may go through in their life. They use this as a way to entertain the viewers. The want the people to relate to what they are viewing to spread the word about what they have seen to get more viewers. This is the way that they make their money from the viewers. You may not relate to what you have watched but you may know someone who has been through the situation. This makes that person want to talk about what they watched. Everything now is based on someone’s experience in life because this is what is appealing to the people.
When you think of video games, you would think of fantasy, which was what they were based off when video games were introduced to the world. You had games such as Sonic the Hedgehog, and Super Mario Brothers. Now you have games like Grand Theft Auto, Close Combat, and Call of Duty, which display things happening in real life. Close Combat and Call of Duty reflect what is happening with the war that is happening overseas. Grand Theft Auto displays different types of crime that is happening around the world. These games reflect what is happening around the world no matter what you have been exposed to in your life, this is happening around the world. Children should not be exposed to these types of video games because of the content that it has, but parents still let them play the games.
There are many things that you would want to change about what type of information is exposed through television, movies, and games, but people want to play or view these things. The manufactures are only trying to make money and they are giving the consumers what they want. If people do not want their children exposed to the different types of content then they need to filter the content that they expose to their children. Things are changing and will continue to change so parents need to continue to enforce they type of content that they want them watching.