Binary Models

At first, binary models was easy to grasp, but as we started going more in depth I wasn’t holding on as well. The binary models were coherent because I realized every day we are faced with elitist and populist news. For example, before this lecture if I read People magazine, I was totally unaware it was a populist form of media. I also realized most journalism media are leaning towards the populist category. If you turn on the local news a majority of what they air is crime scenes, which for the most part aren’t newsworthy. Their goal is receiving as many viewers as possible instead of relaying important information. Plus, it gives older people a pessimistic view on our society even though crime rates have decreased! I know my grandma is affected by this because the local news makes her anxious about everything! Conglomeration also set off a light bulb to me because we are also affected by this all the time! For example, if I was really admiring a series of books, the larger company would realize the admiration and repack content for fans to serve as fodder and produce different forms of this book series such as a movie. However, this can be a con because the content could become trite especially for people that aren’t fans. As we started progressing in the lecture onto monopolies, the information became muddled. The concept was hard to understand because I could not determine what a monopoly was in the first place. Overall, it was a very captivating lecture.