My next school essay has to be about how the media has influenced me in some way.

[graywarrior]

Any ideas? Maybe an essay on DU?

[trof]

1. Faux Snooze as an emetic?

:puke:

[graywarrior]

2. LOL

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[ismnotwasm]

3. Well.. don't take this wrong

But what are you wearing?

[graywarrior]

17. Nothing

[LeftyFingerPop]

4. Here's an idea...

You might want to write about how media can reinforce a person's already pre-established ideas.

I am immersed in DU. I am also a lifelong liberal Democrat. I come to DU for reinforcement of my generally held beliefs, much in the same way the wingnuts go to Fox News for their reinforcement.

Does this make sense?

[graywarrior]

18. Yes

Now if you can finish my Process Essay, which totally sucks, you'd make my day.

[suzbaby]

38. I majored in Comm for my Masters,

there are many studies that support what you just said.

[sarge43]

5. Well, work it from the other direction

Try to imagine what your world view would be without media influence. What would be different?

[Richardo]

6. I hear they're addressing this question on C-Span!

:D

[theNotoriousP.I.G.]

7. Good idea

and maybe include other liberal blogs and news sites. I know DU has influenced my political proclivities towards the left in the last 6+ years.

[ChickMagic]

8. How you've gone bald

after pulling your hair out at the nooze?

[LynneSin]

9. Write about the recent viral explosion of the "Save the Duck" campaign on the Internets...

I heard Alan Rickman himself is coming out against Internet Duck Abuse or IDA

[Rabrrrrrr]

10. Write down, in poor grammar and shitty syntax, that FOX news made you a republican lying shitpot

who thinks Jesus wrote the Constitution of the United States, especially the stuff from Leviticus and the stuff about hanging liberals, hating minorities, and fearing anything that's not white, male, and wears a sheet when it goes out at night.

[LynneSin]

11. I found my crayons and wrote this paper for gray!

[graywarrior]

19. LOL!

My instructor is a liberal. She'd love that!

[Writer]

12. Holy fuck, are you serious? For what class is this??? n/t

[graywarrior]

20. Writing class.

[Writer]

27. You should write that to assume that the media have any direct effect on the formation...

of your identity is foolish. That you are constructed by several social factors, of which the media provides only cursory support. In fact the media themselves are socially constructed, hence the entire writing exercise is BUNK!

You'll get an A EASILY!

;)

(good luck!)

[graywarrior]

31. LOL, my teacher would cry.

[Writer]

34. Then throw in a quote or two by Karl Marx...

something about how you're estranged from your labor, and therefore, don't have access to your true life value. End it with a cry for SOCIALISM and the rise of the working class. Golden!

[graywarrior]

36. Whoa, they'd make me Dean of the school!

:rofl:

[sarge43]

13. The media has given you an unique perceptive on world geography?

[NNadir]

14. I that real?

I've never watched Fox News, but are they that out of it?

[sarge43]

15. It's for real

A couple of months ago several DUers did the screen catch and posted it here.

The consensus: It's not out of it; it doesn't give a rat's ass and its average viewer doesn't know better, let alone care. It's selling Repug propaganda, the dumber, the better

[nolabear]

16. DU was my first thought. We are "media' and you can't tape a duck just anywhere.

[graywarrior]

21. True.

On both counts.

[NJmaverick]

22. I would focus on FAUX news and how it made me lose touch with reality

do it tongue in cheek

[raccoon]

23. If you write an essay on DU, please share it with us. nt

[graywarrior]

28. I will, for sure.

[rurallib]

24. I would probably do something on the pervasiveness of advertisements

and their successful / unsuccessful attempts to ply me from my money. Include some of the base emotions they play to like sex, fear, the desire for popularity etc.

Or maybe you could do an expose on freerepublic.

[graywarrior]

29. LOL, freerepublic would be awesome!

[One_Life_To_Give]

25. Remember the "Maine" was overdone

and a rush to war.
:hide:









Sorry Gray I couldn't resist.

[WCGreen]

26. Hello, the thread that never dies...

You created and almost have become a pop icon.

You are the Andy Hoo Hoo of this generation....

People want to be seen at your party's.

The Granny go lightly...

Oh wait, that was Truman, dahlink, oh well, we can't have it all now or can we...

[graywarrior]

30. How are you doing?

Obviously you've lost none of your humor. And yeah, I should do my essay on that thread! OMG, great idea. It's a media phenomenon!

[WCGreen]

32. Turned a corner, ir seems..

I was pretty frightened and still am concerned but yakking about it in DU sure helped out a lot.

Seriously, I think that would make an interesting look at media and internet convergence. It all depends on the thesis.

[graywarrior]

33. I need a good thesis sentence for the last line in first paragraph.

So glad you are doing better. Keep talking.

[madinmaryland]

35. Explain how after listening to Fox News rationalize the legalization of torture,

you DUCT TAPED a DUCK to a WALL!

:D

And you have been justifying the legality of what you did to that poor DUCK for the last year!

:rofl:

[graywarrior]

37. I'm insane?