Rusty's Blog

Hello. This post is about topic 2 for JN201 Media & Society The three main sources I get my news from are CNN, The Gazette Times, and KATU News. I consider these sources as reliable because they are accepted sources of real news and the reviews of these sources is reliable enough for me. I have never heard of any grand conspiracy of these sources as being used or funded by special interest groups to control the masses. I am confident that all of the above mentioned sources provide accurate reporting of news. In so far as fake news. I am moderately concerned with fake news because of the overwhelming amount of untrue information that has had negative consequences on society collectively and because the collective consciousness of man is powerful enough to create enough massive change that could prove detrimental to the whole man spectrum. As the term "fake news" gets seen by the masses more and more, I think that at a minimum more and more people will use a more critica...

Hello all fellow  students. I am taking up journalism to learn as much as I can about media, communications, etc. I am a lifelong student of the Martial Arts and started this in 1976. I teach private lessons on occasion and spend the rest of my time hiking, camping, travelling, and practicing primitive living skills. I specifically want to learn as much as possible in the general sense about all forms of media and focus more on learning about social media. I'm a nature lover, vegan, and simply believe in nature. I think when man messes with nature - it throws it out of balance. About 20 years ago I thought of this short story: If  I was in a ship wreck with my parents and no one survived but me at say 3 years old and I ended up on some island- what would things be like? Presupposing that I would have limited vocabulary, I might look at the ocean and not have a name for it. I might look at a tree and not have a name for it. I might look at the sky, and the same thing. I wou...