Spiral of silence theory is so strong in people. It plays on the fear of being outcast for something you say playing into the idea of a mob mentality. It is how the angry minority is able to control the mass of people. With a few people being the only people talking then everybody else will fall in suit.

Protection in numbers is a strong asset. This can also relate back to how many of the angry shows in television popped up in the 1990’s or trash TV. People were able to yell and ridicule people for going against a select of people’s beliefs, and the concept of the good guys always won in these shows. The audience could speak their minds towards one person with no repercussions. They were protected behind the crowd of people they were surrounded by with a similar mindset.

Facebook has taken this idea of herd mentality to a whole new level. As long as you don’t break one of their few rules that they don’t always enforce equally, you can say whatever you want. In the screening we watched we heard how several teens told us they were able to basically watch whatever they wished. In the same screening people were blacklisting a woman suing her family. They didn’t know the full story and they ruined her life. When interviews the family was ok with it, this was the only way to get homeowners insurance to kick in. People didn’t know that last part they went after her regardless. Protected behind the screen people feel stronger and more protected because they don’t have to see who they are saying these atrocities to.

Like nation is on the rise. For so many people being likes is all that matters and this fuels the domination machine that is social media. People will have three different social media accounts will different followers just to feel important. People also get jealous of their friends when they don’t get as many likes as someone else did. It is the fact that someone took time out of their day to hit the button that says I like that.

People have made it their life to get as many followers and likes as possible. We can see this strongly in YouTube. When people get enough subscribers YouTube or twitch will start to pay them from uploading content. In the gaming community especially, people have only one job and that is to stream or to upload whatever, game is new or popular to their fan base. This is a newer concept based on the idea that people will watch adds to view something they like, or even pay them in cash for playing games that they like.

The need for graduation from media and movies has been in a great incline since the invention of television. In the 80’s people started to amass over their favorite television shows. This has created a term called fandom.

This idea of fandom is the obsession of people over a certain movie or television show this has allowed the fans to be able to put their input into their shows. This would allow the producers to know what way their viewers would approve of. This is one way we are able to fulfill their urge in order to be satisfied.

People have adapted to getting their way and what we want when we want it. We can relate this back to the book we read throughout the school year present shock. He talked about how we need to have things happen institutionally not over time we have become more reptile like. Filling their urges as soon they are able to not waiting. Social media has flooded us. We have talked about how we have to get information quickly as possible.

We watched a movie this week that really blows this idea of fandom out of the water. It also shows how important they are. The characters had to rely on the dedicated fans who believed them so much to walk them through the bowels of their ship. Knowing it better than the actors themselves. This movie was galaxy quest.

In the movie, only one person was excited about living the rest of his life. His role took over his life but the rest of his friends despite it being lesser roles and not as beloved as he was. So much to having breakdowns or nearly fighting the fans to say famous lines. He lived on the fandom being as rich as he could living on a role that he lived 20 years ago. It was the only thing that was allowing him to continue living life carefree for the most part. In the movie the fans were so strong they even got a reboot. This happened after a long complicated quest but still. Shows once they die stay dead. Reboots for television doesn’t happen. Mummy movies now are having a resurgence. This is happening because of the fan base. Some examples are Avatar the Last air bender, new Jurassic Park movies, and new terminator movies have also been flooding the market of late.

We discuses and watched a lot of the Newsroom. The mane argument was is news really news. This is very questionable. What is the job of news in modern days. This is somewhat unknown…

News used to be bipartisan and what the people need to know. It was never about getting the highest ratings it was about telling the people what happened in the world and what they really needed to know.

We discussed and watched a lot of the Newsroom. The main argument was is news really news. This is very questionable. What is the job of news in modern days? This is somewhat unknown…

News used to be bipartisan and what the people need to know. It was never about getting the highest ratings it was about telling the people what is happening in the world and what they really needed to know.

The Newsroom when it first came out it was called pie in the sky according to our professor. Nobody could guess how wrong the people saying that was. Critics hated the show however, the people loved it.The show touches on the reality that news has become entertainment. When they stop following what people wanted to see to cover the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico “real news” they lost half of all the people who were loyal to them. The had to then back off of true news overnight in order to get them back in fear of losing their audience, covering a politician nudes.

This maybe a slight exaggeration of what happens in real life, however, it’s not all that far off from the truth really. In cable news today we see how much political stance they have spending probably half of their time covering that instead of what is happening around the world.On was the weather it was so bad it was going to cause blackouts however, people don’t care its boring so in the show they ignore it to get screwed by it later that day.

Our reading talks about the undercover boss how it and other shows clime to be news but its drama. Not relating to news at all however, it seem somewhat similar and can confuse watchers because it is set in a documentary format. If it bleeds it leads. Stepping away from the newsroom. In real life people think the crime rates in the United States are higher than ever. This simply isn’t true. However, people will log in and watch a full broadcast talking about crime and people who are tough on crime. Nobody wants to hear that crime is low, it just doesn’t sell it’s not entertainment. Many news stories have to be entertaining not necessarily informational. Television unlike newspaper is not forced to tell the truth to the viewers they have the power to lie to people and mislead them.

Scandals running rampant. In the 1920’s Hollywood was running ramped. The news media loved they found so many scandals that this was the main news for years. One actor was in some senses of the word sacrificed to this. Phatty arbuckle was a beloved actor who lost everything due to some legal trouble.

The actors were not the only ones under fire. The movies themselves were being attacked so much so that a fund to see what the impacts of movies were on children. Even though Chicago refused to do so because it was a biased search but one nonetheless. This created a production code that would change the rules of Hollywood forever.One actor that was destroyed due to these new restrictions was an actress called Vamp. Many of her movies were rated harshly and really hurt her career. Even after these scandals los Angeles grew eight times its size.

One thing that I am going to argue help people try to make the argument that movies influence people. The effectiveness of actress and actors selling war bonds. They were very effective in getting individuals to buy into them in order to help with the First World War. Overall about 20 billion dollars in war bonds were sold overall. A large portion of this can be contributed to the actors selling these bonds.

We have no evidence that people are more violent due to watching violence on TV or playing video games. We do have evidence that the news can have an impact on how people see the world. Even though crime rates have been declining since the 1970’s people in the United States thinks that the world is more dangerous than in the past. This is strange because many people don’t believe that movies have an impact on how people act but the news does. This is part of agenda setting. The news puts up these topics in order to get more ratings and it makes things seem differently than the way things truly are.

In society we are ruled by the idea of mob mentality and higher powers. In the years after WWII people had no idea how the Nazi soldiers were able to go through with the terrible acts they did. So people went to test this. In one study that was done people were to shock people for getting wrong answers. They would do this even after they believed someone died because they were told to.

The movie business was young at one point. In the past 5 big companies were the way we say movies. We saw that many were vertically built in order to have everything in the house. They owned the equipment for making movies, the actors and even the way movies were seen by people. They owned the movie theaters so there was no competition with other movies at the theater. It made it so no small companies could beat them out.

Location, Location, Location. California was the perfect location for everything. You could buy land for cheap and in the same day you were able to go snowboarding and surfing into the dessert in the same day. With the cheap price of property it was almost a steal and these companies had no parent company to watch over them all the way out in California.

This freedom did not last long. Due to the poor running of company’s they had to sell to larger companies and lost their freedom they worked so hard to get. The owners often would gamble away their company money.

MPAA official stamp of death.. Ncc17 rating the true the death of the movie The Motion Picture Association of America has the end all be all when it comes to rating movies and whether or not a film can be successful. Form many people trying to make a movie they hope for rated “R” at the most especially when trying to make a more grown up film.

The Issue seems to be that there are unknown rules and regulations on what is too much. This also seems to be biased on the individuals who are watching the movies. What is too much in one movie is not far enough in others. There is no clear definers, and when you go to the review board to get the rating lowered you can’t mention what other movies have done in comparison, nor can you know who is rating your movies. The raters are completely anonymous even though they are supposed to be the average moviegoer whatever that means. No one seems to know what the average moviegoer is.

We may not know exactly what the line is however, we do seem to have a guess. It appears to be women pleasure. The other line seems to be anything more than just one man and women. When American pie came out it was rated R. many other movies tried to do something similar but with women and was rated Ncc17. Even though they were a lot less than what just came out in American pie. Women enjoying sex seems to be the big shebang.

Women have taken the stage in a way previously unexpected. Women are the new face of comedy and nothing can really stop them. Becoming hit stars women ruled the 1980’s as the funniest thing on television. Betty White, Carol Burnett, Mary Tyler Moore, and Joan Rivers were some of the largest household names for an entire era. These are only some of the women who paved the road for women as not only actors and comedians in the television industry, in more ways than one. At first in order to be a funny women before them we learned that you had to be attractive, and larger set. These women were none of these, considered extremely beautiful they broke almost all of the rules that were set before, as we learned this week in class. These rules tried to keep women as lesser roles, I think part of the reason why they were so successful was because they broke the rules, it was exciting, new, something never done before: this really grabs people’s attention the fact that they were breaking so many of TV laws of the time.

Off the the horror show now.

Funny women were not the only thing on the rage in this era.  Night time horror hosts were also on the rise. Every large city or area had a host, who would be one thing people tried to stay up to see. These hosts were their guide to the horror movies they watched so people wouldn’t feel alone watching them. It was a greater means of filling up time with original content instead of playing the movies they were sold from Hollywood. Who did so to keep up with the TV explosion that happened. They were desperate for a way to keep making money so one way to do this was to sell a bunch of movies to a TV station who would have the rights to play them for their viewers. Many of the movies would go to one station were the same. Many of the Hostess and Hostess would have no idea what their counterparts only a few cities a few miles away were doing, this lead up to many of the shows having a similar feel accedently.  This hostess phase has mostly faded off I believe. However, there are a few left channel’s that come to my mind other then the news station is Fxx, Discovery channel, each show kind of has its own host, and adult swim each still have a host that kind goes through the show/ movie with the watcher. However, this is a fraction of what they use to get.                         

Television is a newer concept but it has changed the way our world works so much. It has not existed the same way as it has forever. I am surprised one format has not managed to stay around as long as I would have thought. The live action drama movies have died. From the concept I would have thought it would have stuck around much longer than it did, it is almost like being at a play from your own home. Similar to a play there are no safety nets no second tries everything is live. There is something to that that makes it seem like it would have stuck around longer to me.

With the chapter on Rushkoff it is hard to believe how hard it was to get the science fiction off of the ground as well. Our best selling movies now or highest rated shows are often times not the ones based in reality but the ones that are not realistic but fantasy. Rod Serling was a writer who had to really push the envelope, he can almost be credited as the father of these new fascination with the supernatural, being the first author to ignore his directors to write what he wanted to. This is not anything that would be unbelievable to write about now. If we look at the most popular shows, other then the news we will see them as purely fantasy, superheroes, zombies or the supernatural. From my understanding this never would have passed as acceptable in the time he was alive. He was a true innovator for his field in  his time. 

If I had to define the 70’s up in a single word from the documentary we watched in class it would be spin off. In the documentary by CNN time over time we saw how more of the most popular shows come to flourish. It was a spin off of a handful of characters from another show following their life apart from the show they originally appeared in. This is something that is less common now I feel like. Now spin off TV series are less likely to be popular with us now and often times fail in their first season on the air. Sitcoms are in general less popular than they have been in the past taking a turn to more of a fantasy or reality tv. The way things have changed, I feel like we will never come back to the way things used to be