Due to my ineptitude with anything password related, I have managed to lock myself out of my first blog, I have therefore started anew. I apologize for any inconvenience. Here’s the link to my now deceased blog: http://cmst1a0763454.blogspot.com/
For this blog I chose the topic of the National Post Editorial Board: Alberta's censorship problem. I found the original conflict interesting back in 2006, and i was interested to see how it has developed since then.
The article was defending an Alberta newspaper man’s freedom to print the cartoon without punishment. It was also criticizing the Alberta government’s freedom of speech laws.
One of the articles we where to read for class came to mind when I was reading National Post article, it was “Metaphors We Live By” by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson. Although the post article had none of the metaphors mentioned in “Metaphors We Live By”, I was stricken by the language. There was nothing vulgar or offensive, but I did find it crude and rather simple.
This then reminded me of what Dr. Sevigny said in class the other day about people being unable to focus for more than two minutes and have the capacity to retain only 3 to 7 bits of information at a time. I have to admit it makes me sad. This is why my generation has strayed away from the written word, content to get the bare bones of a story from a news report or magazine. I used to believe the newspaper above this, but now as I see the articles in my beloved Toronto Star getting shorter, and the cartoons section getting larger, I know one of my favourite mediums is on its way down. Don’t get me wrong I love the cartoons, but even they are being dumbed down, if that’s possible.
Well, I’ve now spent almost 2 and half hours on this assignment, I got sidetracked watching Pinky and the Brain for 20 minutes, I visited my neighbours for another half hour, then tried (and failed) to get my last blog up and running for a good 45 minutes, and spent another 10 trying to find the right blogging music, so I guess I’m the poster child for short attention span, at least Harry Potter can still keep me hooked.
For this blog I chose the topic of the National Post Editorial Board: Alberta's censorship problem. I found the original conflict interesting back in 2006, and i was interested to see how it has developed since then.
The article was defending an Alberta newspaper man’s freedom to print the cartoon without punishment. It was also criticizing the Alberta government’s freedom of speech laws.
One of the articles we where to read for class came to mind when I was reading National Post article, it was “Metaphors We Live By” by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson. Although the post article had none of the metaphors mentioned in “Metaphors We Live By”, I was stricken by the language. There was nothing vulgar or offensive, but I did find it crude and rather simple.
This then reminded me of what Dr. Sevigny said in class the other day about people being unable to focus for more than two minutes and have the capacity to retain only 3 to 7 bits of information at a time. I have to admit it makes me sad. This is why my generation has strayed away from the written word, content to get the bare bones of a story from a news report or magazine. I used to believe the newspaper above this, but now as I see the articles in my beloved Toronto Star getting shorter, and the cartoons section getting larger, I know one of my favourite mediums is on its way down. Don’t get me wrong I love the cartoons, but even they are being dumbed down, if that’s possible.
Well, I’ve now spent almost 2 and half hours on this assignment, I got sidetracked watching Pinky and the Brain for 20 minutes, I visited my neighbours for another half hour, then tried (and failed) to get my last blog up and running for a good 45 minutes, and spent another 10 trying to find the right blogging music, so I guess I’m the poster child for short attention span, at least Harry Potter can still keep me hooked.
