I recently handed in my very last Uni essay, which was for Information Society, an essay comparing the media ownership policy of Australia and the US. While working on it, I noted down a couple of things I found interesting, or things that I learned of/about.
• I learned the original reason the world was inundated with game shows! Because of a law that made it illegal for a network to show any network show between 7 and 8pm, other than 30 minutes of network news.
• The Big US Cable channels all belong to major broadcast networks. (okay I already knew about Showtime and CBS cause they put that in there title)
• The West Wing has opened up my mind with unexpected parameters. Issues relating to The White House, Government and Policy are no longer dreaded topics in my readings, or general interest.....however don't think I'll start to get TOO into Aussie politics...or involved in any non-major issues! I don't care THAT much!!!!
• In relation to the point above, I think I would be able to learn anything if it was written about by Aaron Sorkin! –I wonder how well I could have done in high school if everything had been explained or written by him?!
• Approximately 5 companies own the whole of US/World Media.....in Australia, we only have 2 or 3....still worse for us! Plain scary infact!
-Obviously I learned a lot more than that from my Media and Communications degree....but these were a couple of recent points that stuck out.
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Carlie
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