texting while driving? More like texting and taking something way too far.

First, just watch this video.

Can you just say intense. Way too intense for television? Yes, I along with society understands this is a pressing issue. "21% of fatal car crashes involving teenagers between the ages of 16 and 19 were the result of cell phone usage. This result has been expected to grow as much as 4% every year." While this is a common and reoccuring problem amongst more and more people did you really have to show blood? Did you really have to drag the whole psa 4 minutes and 41 seconds? Did you really have to involve a baby? Another head on collison from another car as if the first crash wasn't enough? Did you really have to bring in a young innocent child witnessing the death of her parents? While this hit me hard and huge impact I think it was taken way too far. Wouldn't something like this be better?

Both videos have the same goal, make people aware of the dangers texting and driving causes. They brought in the emotional appeal by incorporating a younger girl as the spokesperson, they showed the crashed car as a result of driving and you felt for the friends as they sat by her grave. Call me a baby, I would rather be watching the later one then witnessing a bloody, horrific car accident in full second by second detail. Hearing about those stories is enough for me.

"Never Forget, Never Forgive"

Well i figured out how to add a picture and embed a video. Now i would say that thats progress, but with that came the deletion of everything i have written! So watch this video and you will get an idea of the terrible things going on in the Middle East. I was there a year ago this time and this story really hit home fore me.

Twitter, it serves a purpose

Some people just use this thing called Twitter for personal enjoyment but as stated during the month of August in the New York Times, tweeting served far more importance. It's use in Iran gave it a new found respect. During their presidential election in June 2009, tweeting helped organize protests and disseminate information. It didn't just serve as a current update in someone's life but relayed information that was attempted to be cut off from the rest of society.

I'm blogging for the first time...this should go down in history

Driving on the 405 freeway southbound, Maria Sanchez with three-year-old son and seven-year-old daughter get in a fatal car crash when Dan Marcus hit them head on. Dan came onto the freeway entering opposing traffic while driving under the influence around 9 pm last night. Dan driving at over 90 miles per hour hit Maria’s blue mini van head on. The car instantly flipped three times. Maria and her two children are in the intensive care unit at Los Robles Hospital while Dan Marcus died instantly on the scene.  

When citing a news report, story, persuasive argument, or someone’s opinion the viewer might do two things: engagingly read or not read the article. The journalist or the writer’s job is to pull people their audience in and read more than just the headline. Journalism is what people read in the tabloids, magazines, newspaper, what they hear on breaking television, the radio, or what they read through a computer screen.

            Not only are heir different venues in which journalist’s writing can be displayed, there are different topics they feel are worth mentioning. A journalist reveals information to the people through editing, writing or taking pictures. Sad, humorous, outrageous, informative, uplifting, inspiring, debatable, and emotional are perspectives the writer or the journalist might decide to approach. They will steer their stories to the outside world discussing particular topics that support their target audience. Journalists want people to be fully engaged in the stroy they’ve spent the time to create.  Without a reader, listener or viewer a journalist’s work would be obsolete. Just as much as the write plays an important part in society so do the people.