I love android phones! They have to be the best thing since, well sliced bread really. Today I was going out looking for a new pair of basketball shoes, and just couldn't find them anywhere that I went, well in my size at least. However, due to my phone and its easy access to the internet at anywhere I have service (which is pretty much everywhere) I found a store (20 minutes down the highway of course) that I never would have known about other wise. The advances in how people find material and information is absolutely ridiculous in todays world! I can't get enough of it. Another example of my phone being awesome; the other day me and my friends were discussing a video that one of them had saw on YouTube yet no one else had. Due to the amazing advances in a mobile phone that can fit into any pocket of mine, I brought up my YouTube application that is made just for my phone, and found the exact video we were talking about. For anyone who constantly searches the internet, or needs shopping help during their spree because they don't like to look ahead of time, like myself, buy an android phone, and pay the extra for the data plan. It is in every way worth it!

Being in danger of having another bad grade on another one of the blogging grades, here I go. Last night I went and saw the film Green Zone, featuring Matt Damon. This movie was an excellent example of how the media completely influences peoples views on specific things that are going on. In the example of the movie, the media is being "paid off" (in a way) about the weapons of mass destruction projects in the middle east. People were believing things that had been posted in newspapers as well as things that were being said on television. People wanted to believe these things because their own media was telling them about it. It led to the big twist of the story, which I don't want to completely give away, but in real life we never found any, and in the movie it is the same. However people assumed that they were just being hidden much better.

However, the main part of the movie that relates to this class and to this blog is the effect the media had on what the people of the U.S. were feeling about the war. People thought what was going on was justified due to how the media portrayed what was happening, however in the reality it was all part of spin.

With the expansion of the internet my life is becoming increasingly easier. Earlier today I paid a parking ticket... online! it was wonderful. While the ticket itself sucked, the fact that a money order did not have to be made, and mailing didn't happen it turned out great for me. Debit card info in, receipt out. One of the main things that our generation takes for granted is the way the media has evolved makes everyone do everything easier and more efficiently. Ever since newspaper articles have been made to be sent to my phone and my computer they have never turned back, everything is accessible to the touch via internet. Thank you U.S. government for creating a project that completely revolutionized the way we see, and find the media! God Bless America!

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