From the 60 minutes clip, I realized that the audience is the most important part of the research project. If the audience cannot understand the point the researched is trying to get across, then the project is basically garbage. If the audience cannot trust the facts being stated, or even the reason for the story, then the audience will not like the paper they are readying. I noticed that the show was missing many important points and views from other people that should have been on there. Personally, I was not following or believing what the reporter and the protagonist were trying to sell off because there was a lack of proof behind what was said to have happened. It was a good story to sell and grab attention, but being critical of it, I did not like it.
In my annotated bibliography I tried to find supportive for my research question from different perspectives. After watching the 60 minute scene, I really got the idea that the audience is hungry for facts and feeding them before giving them the bedtime story, or the conclusion, really sets the right tempo of moving the research paper along. Without them proper facts and different sides of the story, the audience is not going to be interested. An audience is not hungry for crap, they want the juicy steak and potatoes to set them straight.
What I have so far is basically a list of details and perspectives and facts from multiple levels of fighting from my side, or the side that shows the bad decisions based of watching media. One of my sides shows that media does in fact influence decisions, stating that adolescents are attracted to vibrant media posters and slogans. I do not want to try and just fight and basically say that media is bad, however I do want to get the point across that media may influence adolescent drug use or underage drinking and early sex. Since watching the 60 minute scene, I don't want to be that reporter just trying to make a sob story for some bimbo who got too drunk and raped. I do feel bad for her, but how do I really know that she got raped? Am i supposed to believe she did because she feels bad for how drunk she got and how many guys took advantage of her? Maybe she actually had consensual sex with one of those boys, but the boys thought it would have been funny to just come in and start tag teaming, which is wrong Im not saying its not, but why didn't she go to the police? Why didn't the reporter talk to the boys? Maybe the boys didn't want to be on TV... and so on and so on.... The report was not right and did not show the proper sides of the story before going off on the college about how it is wrong to let these boys get away with what they did with the minor consequences.
With that being said, I do not want it to seem like I am going off on the media without 'letting the media speak for itself'. I think that i have some great points in my annotated bibliography, but I also think that it is lacking on some things that may support the media more as well. Maybe a testimony from an adolescent, maybe a testimony from myself.
This response is kind of scattered in terms of how it approaches the assignment, but I am glad that you are realizing the importance of audience and perspective in your project. But, key here is what YOU are noticing in your own sources-- beyond "great points" or "support media". What do you mean by this?
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