media experiences
first off, this is an article i just found on music file sharers and how they seem to be more likely to purchase more cds than non-sharers.
i don’t really trust everything i find on the msnbc websites, but i thought it was pretty interesting nonetheless.
second, the other day i was having breakfast at a coffee shop and was flicking through the province (another source i don’t really trust), and started looking at the ads and their placements. last year and the year before i took the history of journalism and the public relations media studies classes, and a lot of what we talked about had to do with the advertisers in newspapers. being a publishing student as well, i have a fairly decent understanding on the relationships between advertisers and publishers. what i found really interesting was how in this paper it didn’t seem like anyone had taken a look at where the ads were. on one page there was an article about a flooding in mexico or california or somewhere (sorry, memory of a goldfish). anyways, directly under the article, that included a picture of people walking through the streets, holding their belongings over there heads, was a caption talking about people losing their homes. and directly under that caption was an ad for an interior design school. and directly next to that, was an ad for the (insert store here) home furnishing sale. i felt a little embarassed. seriously, how rude is that?
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