i'm tiger woods! i'm tiger woods!

Tiger Woods has a press conference being held tomorrow for his numerous sex scandals that surfaced a few months ago. He has yet to show his face because more than likely that nine iron his wife had met his two front teeth. He's holding a press conference to apologize for all of his actions, and the rest of what he will say can only be determined by watching tomorrow. That being said, since we're talking about the rating system and parents actions in it, I can't help but wonder if I would let my kids watch this press conference. He'll obviously be talking about some pretty bad stuff, and I can only imagine the questions from kids that could arise. "Why's he sorry?" or "what's cheating?" or "why does his wife look so mad?"

Is it really appropriate for kids to watch something like this? However, of course, since it's nationally televised, TV shows do hold some rating system, but nothing near the movie rating system, and while some parents lock programs that have a more mature rating, most don't, and alot of kids might be able to watch this. So if people are bothered by what their kids are viewing and the current rating system, it leads me to believe that this is a cheap cop-out for not PARENTING. It's ultimately their job to try to control what their children watch and are exposed to, not the rating system's. As for tomorrow, good luck Tiger. Just don't go A-rod's route and say you didn't know what cheating was at the time.

olympics!

Vancouver 2010 olympics have been all the rage! Actually they really haven't been, as they're currently on and i'm 100 times more interested in kansas vs. texas a&m college hoops. could be an upset...that being said, there's been some media-related controversy in the olympics, that has pretty much been looked over by the general public but is a pretty big deal. People are arguing what type of media is "newsworthy". As I'm sure alot of you have heard, there was a USA luger who was only 21 that was killed in a bad crash during a practice run the day of the opening ceremonies. There was raw video footage of this crash, and since the olympics started saturday morning, this video was aired Saturday morning, showing the very violent crash.

This is controversial because many people feel that this video should not have been aired at this time of the day because many little kids are flicking through the channels watching their cartoons or hannah montana or whatever they watch these days. People are mad that their kids saw that crash, because it was very accessible and easily viewed at that time obviously. However, I heard a journalist call in on a radio show about this and said it was "newsworthy" and it's any media person obligation to air that video if they have it. From a media perspective, I completely agree that the video should have been shown. It was a very big deal, and something that if it's available, it should be shown. For example, we've all seen at one point or another the assassination video of JFK. Imagine if no one had ever released that footage? Would it have felt like you were robbed at being shown something "newsworthy"? That being said, the controversy stirs up in me a little bit as well. Should this have been shown at this time of day? I'm sure if I had a little kid I wouldn't want them to see a violent video like this when they're watching power rangers. So how far does the "newsworthy" argument go? Since the olypmpics started early, it was fitting to show the video, but should there have been more warning? Just food for thought...

horror genre..

I'm so sick of horror movies. Now in our society it's like every horror movie needs to have insane amounts of violence in order to be scary. To be honest, having violent horror movies like that is what makes me not want to watch it. Sure, it's pretty frightening to see someone ripped to shreds in "saw", but it's not really that clever. It's like a comedian that gets all their laughs from swearing. I just don't get it, and it feels like you don't have to put much effort in, and it's a cheap laugh, or in the horror movie case, a cheap scare.

That being said, I love really suspenseful horror movies. The ring's kind of like that. It's really creepy and gets into your head, but it's not very violent at all. The most blood in that movie is probably a nose bleed. But the ideas and that samarah girl gets into my head, and creeps me out at night. I work as a janitor at a high school, and i'm there by myself alot at night. Sometimes I'll look down the hallway and think i'm going to see that little girl standing there with a flickering light over her head. It's yet to happen by the way, but at least these horror movies did a good job of scaring the crap out of me. I've never once been terrified of jigsaw standing in the hallway, because he's practically on his death bed in all his movies (and isn't he dead in the last one? how does that work out??)

Technology outbreak...

In the world of communications, we are certainly media obsessed. We all go on facebook 24/7, text, skype, and write on blogs (like right now!). I feel like this has changed our ability to be able to communicate face to face. I find so many people that can text me a lot or write on my "wall", but when you see them in person, they act very differently sometimes. Why is this? I think all this media is really changing the way we communicate with human beings, and it's made us more socially inept, which is obviously a downfall to it. However, all this new media does have alot of upsides too, where people can stay in touch as much as they want, which used to be much more difficult to do. so which is better? none of these forms of communication or having it?

GOOD GUY bad guy

talking all these theories this week has got me thinking: america as a whole tends to always take the view and appreciate and enjoy the view of good guy bad guy. If it's in politics, you like your candidate your voting for, the good guy, and you hate the other, the bad guy, and follow appropriate news stations and discussions. In sports, we (the red sox) are the good guys and the yankees are the bad guys. In TV or movies you are rooting for the good guys and as the plot develops you want those good guys to stick it to the bad guys, preferably violently. Why is that? has our society molded us to be far too competitive and violent against one another. I think Levi-Strauss' theory had it all wrong. Can't we all just get along??

CELTICS LAKERS collapse...

I was watching the Celtics game Sunday when they horrendously collapsed in the fourth quarter and lost a disguisting game they never should have lost to the lakers at home. During this game, because it was on ABC, I couldn't help but notice how incredibly biased the commentating was. All the "generic" announcers were clearly not fans of the celtics, especially jeff van gundy. They were all anchoring viewers into pretty much rooting against the celtics, and complaining about every foul call against the lakers. I can't stand these sports commentators just as much as I can't stand news anchors for the way they try to impress the way they view things on fans watching the games. That's why I hate FOX sports or TBS whenever ANY sports playoffs come around. I can't take it!