Media Perception And Me :)

So this media phenomenon known as the "Occupy Movement" has lost some media attention and force within American.... What I’m here to talk about (while using Occupy as a springboard) is the manipulation of images by the media to incite emotion rage and misunderstanding. And let’s start with my definition of media I’m not only talking about mainstream or conventional media alone, person media and what I would call private media (personally owned) has greatly affect people perceptions of things like the "Occupy Movement" greatly. This type of media which is produced at home and broadcast through socially media sites like Facebook, Twitter, etc. has a very unique power. The media is not screened or conformed meaning that is validity should always be in question, but rarely is it. Also sense the media is presented to a social media website that means that people who are already in partial agreement are generally going to find it or have it presented to them. These images/article of information could easy help to solidify a beliefs on false or exaggerated information. Sadly contributing to the polarization of ideas in our society...

            .... But back to my examples....

The images presented to you are ones that I found of Facebook that show how misguided these media images are and how they distort what the "Occupy Movement" was attempting to accomplish. The first is created to present a satirical image of the protestors. It’s wrong on several levels, the first of which it references the hate that people had toward African Americans during the Civil Rights Movement, After peace marchers had fire house turned on them and people made references to cleaning up dirty black folk. Furthermore this image downplays the great amount of violence that was done to these protestors those cans the police are carrying are not water but "pepper spray" and extremely harsh and painful chemical. Last the picture marks the protestors with the negativity that the term "Hippie" has come to represent...

The next image though less extreme present the fact that receiving employment from the armed forces could solve all the protestor’s problems. There are several things wrong with this, first of all every person isn’t made to be in the armed forces whether due to physical, mental, or spiritual challenges and whether people believe it or not they don’t take everybody. The next thing is that there are major and real problems with the way the American economy is functioning right now and this picture just dismisses that completely. IDK... The last thing that bothered me is (and this is part my own political belief and extremely bias) that why the fuck am I going to spend 4+ years of higher learning to then turn around and get a shitty paying job with sloppy benefits, have to drag my big black ass through the mud, and finally have my character assaulted upon until I submit to the will of the United States Army... People What Do You Think??? Thats The Media And Me....

   

The Death Of Broadcast Radio... And The Laziness Of DJ's

So as many of you know I can be kinda a music snob... and trust me I’m the first person to step back and say maybe I went a little too far on my critique of a selection of music but beyond that I feel like I do have a good understanding of the music and the industry. Which bring me to today’s topic which I’m sure I covered a few months ago but you’re going to hear it again.... Broadcast radio and its impending doom. There is a motley of factors that’s leading to the destruction of radio and a lot of it has to do with the privatization of broadcast music, why should you have to wait or search to hear a particular genre of music when you can pay a monthly fee to something like XM and get it 24 hours a day.... so we blame the culture and our instant gratification mentality....

But I think that a large portion of the problem is the DJ'S who work for broadcast station (Especially in the DMV) got lazy. You spent years creating very unique and diverse station to then only playing Bill Boards Top 40. And even before this phenomenon occurred the DJ were not playing motley of music, you could switch between 3 Hip-Hop stations and hear the same song on every station. I would switch to XM too. It pains me to loose radio personalities that I grew up with and slowly watch their creativity reduced to that of a standard issue Ipod. But there is really nothing I can do at this point but attempt to work for a change back to old radio styles... And yes let me say this before I’m flooded with emails... I understand the DJ's are under pressure to play music that is popular in attempt to increase ratings... it’s just sad that the overplaying f those same 10 songs have helped to make their jobs obsolete.... But you know when those same 10 artist are the only people nominated for Grammy's the same year out of the hundreds of artist who released new music in the same year, you wonder what has become of music..... Do We Need A Musically Revolution??? Are We Finally Sick And Tired Of The Shit On The Radio???