Taking Charge of Assignments and Rants

The take-charge assignment seems interesting and very easy to understand. What’s not easy to understand is quantitative chemistry. I have no idea what is going on in that class, but don’t worry because this actually has something to do with English. Most of the kids in English class are chemical engineers so they also have to take quantitative chemistry. So basically if you are reading one of the blogs and think it makes no sense whatsoever, it might be because quantitative chemistry has turned our brains to mush, which brings me to my next topic: media.
I have never been in an English class where we have not read at least one novel in the first three weeks, much less an English class where we get to pick the topic we study. Given the choice, I think I would rather have someone else decide what I learn just because it would be less work for me, but because we do have the choice I think I might want to do something about global warming. We could take conflicting arguments and tear their structure apart, and then we can decided which argument is valid and which one is not finally ending the debate on global warming. Perhaps after we finish with global warming, we could move on to other topics such as the Middle East conflict and finally create peace through our validation of arguments. By the end of the discussion we could be Noble Peace Prize winners. That may be setting our sights too high for a semester English class, but we can at least closely examine the arguments behind global warming and continue from there.

Trust in the Age of Diversity and Spin: Analyzed

So basically the only reason I read this article is because it was required for class. It was more interesting than the first article we read in class, but it was boring none the less. I did think that it was a little ironic that the author was writing about how people distrust the media, and he is the media. He was writing about distrusting himself. haha
There was one major fallacy in Michale Hedges article; he states that people do not trust media when it is owned by the government, but he continues to argue that people distrust the media because they are independent corporations. It is true that people disbelieve the media when it is run by the government, because they know that the government will only allow the people to know what the government wants them to know. However, it is not true that people distrust corporate media; people simply listen to what they want to hear, and the companies have realized just that. News is no longer about telling the truth. News is about making money. The companies know that they won't make a profit if the people won't read or listen to a story. They do not withhold information to keep the public ignorant; they simply inform the public of what they want to hear. In an ideal society, the news might contain what is important and the people would read, but our society is not perfect so neither is the media.