There is currently an enquiry in the House of Reps into two bills, both which will would amend the marriage act to allow same-sex marriage. This little survey only takes a minute and every little bit of support helps!


http://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/House_of_Representatives_Committees?url=spla%2Fbill+marriage%2Findex.htm&t=dXNlcmlkPTMxNDg4MixlbWFpbGlkPTcwMg%3D%3D

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Free concert with Temper Trap and Matt Corby, yes please! Thankyou JJJ!

http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/musicnews/s3459350.htm

Amazing

The reason I have chosen to study journalism is the opportunity to travel. I love travelling and meeting new people, exploring new places. Doing study beyond secondary school was always in my plan, however the closer it came to accepting my offer, the more I wanted to leave it for travel. I have all my travel books read and marked, although I know that after I finish my studies the more prospect of more adventures will be likely. Top adventures that are to be had next in:

Santorini, Greece

Maldive Islands

Switzerland (I love the snow!)

Southern France 

Cambodia 

PUBLIC MEDIA - WEEK 7

Public media mission is to serve the public, imbedding "public service ethos". Within Australia their are two public media corporations, SBS and ABC. Both these public media companies are provided to cater for all democratic, which I believe is impossible in a extensive multicultural society. I might also input here that everything is biased. It is near to impossible to be impartial, though the selection of news, writers, journalists, ethnic background of presenters, everything comes with biased opinions. Secondly public media is providing a nationalism view and its functions are: 

• Nation Building 
• National Heritage 
• National identity 
• National conversations

People argue that public media appears dull, boring and slow. I believe this is a positive and negative. In being positive, it is simply supplying information with no underlying motive. It is simple and direct with providing Australia with current events and provides limited money to the presentation of the show allowing more funds to the actual news. The negative side to the program presentation is that the majority of audiences is from a illiterate or older society. The style allows limited viewing to, for example, a younger generation. It is not rocket science to know that young Australians prefer bright and captivating programs and this is the audience ABC and SBS fails to reach. I am embarrassingly guilty of this. I would rather watch channel 7's "Sunrise" than "7.30 Report". Although I know of the biased opinion that surrounds commercial media, I prefer to watch it, to get my light hearted fix of programs. After saying that, I would always choose to work for ABC over 7, as I know it is where real, true journalism exists.

Commercial Media - Week 6

Another weekend spent up by, what I like to call, 'lazy and limited study', another monday turns up, another JOUR1111 lecture arrives right on time. My eyes weary with the recollections of the nights dreams, my skin marked with indents created by bed sheets, my parched throat attempts to liquify my tonsils as I slump routinely into the cracked leather of the surprisingly comfortable lecture chairs. Ok, don't fret, I'm not going to talk about the lecture in that wording, it seemed to just be a creative pass by in my brain. In week 6 lecture Dr Redman discussed commercial media, with commercial media being  profit driven media. I knew that ABC was owned by the government but it never occurred to me that therefore it is 'public media' and commercial media, being privately owned and operated contains advertisements and can be particually biased.  

Advertisers are the real customers of a commercial media organisation, not its readers, viewers or listeners.

The popular above quote illustrates the existence of commercial media, advertisements. Commercial media is the eyeballs and ears of advertisement. Advertisers are the real customers, being with, News Limited, Fair Fax, APN media, WIN, Southern Cross, Seven West Media, Ten and nine entertainment co. Within in each of these organisations, each company creates multiple productions, it is a massive industry that I consume daily. 

Dr Redman explained propaganda that exists in commercial media. For example, Fox News. Fox news is is a commercial media organisation that reaches millions of audience across the globe, it is evident that it is biased through their choice of topics and stories and the angle and language they use. I have been a viewer of this propaganda and I know from learning about media propaganda, as a society we need to be aware of these biased opinions and choose our media intake carefully. 

When evaluating all television programs on Australian television is is evident that commercial media have a general dumbing down of content. With programs such as 'Funniest Home Videos', 'Australia's Got Talent', 'Big Brother' etc. these programs are valued 'worthy' to commercial media. Is is possible for commercial media to deliver commercial (profit) and social (public trust) functions.(or is it just about the mighty dollar $ ?). I believe this would be a major challenge and almost impossible to achieve in this generation, the need and greed for money is to high. 

I'm now attempting to view all commercial media carefully and attempting to stick with public media stations (apart from the odd 'Revenge'....its addictive!)

RADIOTASTIC - week 5

                                                    

                                                               My heading is verging on embarrassing

Week 5

I'm still writing in heading style, 

Time to start blogging,

see you down there,

Yep, im embarrassing. 

It is scary not knowing what you want to do with your life, I knew my interests, likes and dislikes however I was challenged to discover what my career will be. My Mum's careers was  as a radio producer, before having children, the majority of her time was working for ABC radio national. I always felt a tug towards the radio industry which is why I am here now studying journalism, with the topic and speakers of this weeks lecture I was excited and intrigued to hear about the industry.  Week 5 welcomed an online sound lecture (new media...boom!) with Carmel as our speaker as well as interviews from professional radio broadcasters Richard Fidler and Steve Austin from ABC Local Radio. Richard passed on some key points to becoming a great radio producer, he said that radio is more intimate than television, therefore it is necessary to let the listeners feel included, keep the conversation open and think about what audience would like to hear. Richard also mentioned not to be afraid of silence on radio as a producer. Silence is a really powerful in radio, its truthful and revealing. Hearing this I immediately agreed with the concept, however as an aspiring radio producer, before hearing this, I would have presumed silence would be awkward and it would have filled the gap with talking or music. Our second interviewee was Steve Austin. Steve also brought on some worthy advise, bring down the barriers between 'you' and the 'listener', earn their trust so you are able to discuss deeper more emotional issues. Steve also said don't give up, if you really want it, a few knock backs will make you become a more interesting person/radio producer. This interview inspired me to take chances, make risks and work hard. These interviews made my career choice become more solid.