Media Critiques

    We had already knew that were to be expected to write a media critique for this project, so I was very keen to know how. Obviously Mr. Miller lectured us on what they are and how a good one is written. Here are some of my lasting thoughts on the lesson.

    I think the thing that surprised me the most was the requirement of not being able to talk in first person when writing a media critique. I thought that since we were critiquing that we would need say, “This is why I find this article….” That’s not the case. I now know it’s a movement to being more objective, but I found it kind of surprising a first.

I also found the “No critiquing a review” a given. You can’t say someone’s opinion is wrong or it violates a Yardstick or Element. I did find the Inverted pyramid interesting, where we put the most important things on top. That makes sense; no one cares about all the added details before they know what happens. It was cool how that tied into with we were learning about in the lecture of print journalism. I love how all things tie together.

Overall, I found the lecture mediocre; it was very important and interesting, but I didn’t really give the lecture a second thought. It was cool to learn about, just not my favorite lecture ever given. Which, it doesn’t have to be. I’m not going to like everything we do in J1 and that’s okay. Just when I’m talking about lectures I loved, this one probably won’t make the list.