Why Check the Facts?

Frat douche likes to tap people really hard on the shoulder. You know, God forbid people give their attention to something else for a few minutes. No, he wants their eyes on him, at ALL TIMES. Otherwise he probably shrinks and eventually melts then vaporizes into the air. (Yes, I did just use the phase transition term for liquid to gas).

Today's Journalism lecture topic: Television Part II

Unfortunately I missed Part I, but I heard television is just another medium which is starting to decline. Very slowly, but declining nonetheless. Basically the internet will be the only thing we have in 20 years. I don't think it would be that bad though, we all watch TV, read newspapers, read books, view movies, listen to music, and listen to radio on the internet anyway. We just need someone to create a computer which can transform into smaller and larger computers, then we'd all be fine. I have two more points on this topic: 1) we will never have the transforming computer because Steve Jobs died and 2) we really do not need it considering the world ends in 14 months.

I need to start watching The Daily Show.

Sometimes I wonder what would happen if I raised my hand and asked riveting but irrelevant questions in class. Like, if I raised my hand right now and asked Prof. X about how many journalists associate themselves with the Democratic Party and how many are elephants, I'm sure most of the brain-and-spine-free people in my class would suddenly have strong interest in the question and they would wish to know his answer, but ultimately he would be like "what the f---?"

Let's talk about my future for a second.

So, I'm undeclared when it comes to my major but I've been telling people I'm thinking about Journalism. Well, in less than 2 weeks we can begin registering for next semester's classes and I could potentially declare a major. I am fearful of declaring. Making a declaration is a serious event in a person's life, and I am not sure if I am invested enough to throw my life in the Journalism fish tank and how I don't sink. Then again, I have 10 tabs open right now and 9 of them are very related to the entertainment journalism world. I can see myself listening to the soon-to-be-released Kelly Clarkson record and giving it a C+ on the first page of Entertainment Weekly's Music review section. I can vividly picture myself taking extensive notes and judging every sharp cheddar cheese-line spouted from the 9 protagonists of the Avengers movie due out in May of 2012. I can imagine taking pictures and submitting them to magazines around the world until finally landing a full-time job taking pictures for a newspaper's online corporation. What I'm getting at is, while I'm not 100% sure of what I want to do, everything I keep as an option seems to fall under Journalism. Maybe I will declare. Maybe I will take that step. Or maybe I'll cower into the fetal position and wait until fall 2012 to declare, both options are very plausible.

Now, before I leave you I must ask you to do me the mightiest of favors: If you read this blog, at all, ever, even if it is just this one time or if you have read them all, please please PLEASE please give us some freaking feedback. Just say SOMETHING. Or, better yet, say what you like, don't like, want to hear about, want to know. Tell me what you want and I'll probably give it to you. Unless it's of a sexual manner. You don't ask for that over the internet, you send that in the mail or in a text ;)

ZING.

Okay, so what have we learned today?

"Leave some feedback and go forth with our lives."

Yes, very good class. See you Thursday.