Favorite Blog Post : 4th Quarter

My favorite blog post this year is "What does your name say about you?"

My favorite blog post that I chose has many connections to what we have been talking about in class and I enjoyed writing it very much. I think that this quarter I definitely dropped the ball on blogging. I have almost no blogs for the month of April and only two for May. But do think that my blogging this quarter has greatly improved. I'm not going to lie, at the beginning of this year blogging was much more of a chore to me than something I enjoyed. But, as the year has progressed I have come to really enjoy blogging and am so glad I am in a class that does it. Blogging has made me more comfortable writing and forced me to make connections from out class to the real world. Although I may not continue blogging after this class I will surely (shirley?) continue making connections from the news to my life.

Monday, February 22, 2010

Warning: Construction Zone

I'm sure that many of you watch the olympics every night and find new heros to root for. Well, so do I. Actually watching the olympics can become that highlight of my day. But after our discussion about the difference between men's and women's sports and the construction of each sport. I then began to wonder about the construction of the olympics, specifically the construction of the airtime for each sport.

There are fifteen official sports at the Vancouver Winter Games and they certainly don't get equal airtime. Of course NBC favors the american athletes and gives the big stories the most air time. We get to know each athlete and their life story, but do we really need to know all this. Yes, I do love watching the interviews and the inspirational journey to the olympics. But at what cost
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I am a big hockey fan, and I watched the awesome game yesterday of the United States Mens team vs. Canada's Mens team. I was disappointed to find out that it was not on NBC, but pushed to MSNBC. There was so much hype about the game and the game itself was such a great game to watch (If you were american). What is interesting to me is that traditionally The more popular sports on American TV are team sports, yet hockey was pushed to the secondary network while Ice Dancing got Primetime. Now I really don't mean to rail on Ice Dancing, I enjoy that too, in fact I am currently watching the Ice Dancing free Skate as I write, but it is curious to me that a sport that so many americans regularly follow gets pushed back fro a sport that we watch once every four years.

Have you noticed any trends in air time for sports? How do you think NBC has constructed what they put in Primetime and what they leave for other networks?
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