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Queen Bees Helps Mean Girls

Queen Bees from "The N"

Queen Bees from "The N"

A new television show on The N called Queen Bees is aimed at helping some of the most self-indulged, self-entitled divas change back into good girls.

The show premiered today – check out the first ten minutes. Their claims to fame are quite hilarious. I think we all know plenty of girls like this and its true we all hate these queen bees. Hopefully by placing the girls in the same place they’ll realize how much they dislike people who act just like themselves.

I think the favorite part of the introduction was the fact that most of these girls didn’t even know why they were on a show. They all just volunteered to be on a reality show because they wanted the attention.

The only thing I thought could have been improved was if the girls didn’t know right away that the goal was to be nice. We could have really seen their true colors and it could have had a great moments like the reality show Average Joe, where the guy had no idea that everyone on the show with him was actually an actor.

On a nerdy note - The video masher tool on their website is awesome. Users can mash together clips from the show, add music and graphics and enter it into a contest. It is a pretty sweet tool.

McCain’s Dislike for Bloggers Video

A day after explaining the difference between about bloggers and journalists, I thought that this viral video of John McCain speaking his his love for bloggers was quite timely.

I should also state that unlike other bloggers, I am trying to make McCain look bad. Democrats are just as frustrated with bloggers and the rumors they like to run with. Take for example, Barack Obama’s new site, FightTheSmears.com.

Is Blogging Killing Journalism? Or is Blog Popularity a Result of Bad Journalism?

Journalists and those who study mass communication could argue for hours the difference between bloggers and journalists. And although I agree that there is and should be a big difference – Is there a really a difference between bloggers and biased journalist pundits like Mike Huckabee, Bill O’Reilly and the right-wing news station they work for.

Over the past two years blogging has boomed, while traditional media outlets have been slowly downsizing. It is easy to blame blogs, bloggers and the Internet for this trend.

As a response to dwindling mass media consumption, many media outlets have decided to ditch traditional news stories for more fantasized, supersized and outrageous news.

And as funny as it may it seem – filling this void that they left as the watch dog media are the same people who have caused it go away. (bloggers)

As a person with a college mass communication degree, I often ask myself if I should be worried. And yes, I am – however I do not think the situation is helpless.

Here are few things I think journalists and bloggers can do to help the current situation:

  1. Engage in conversation with each other and don’t be afraid to call each other out when it comes to facts and fact checking.
  2. Take an oath to always tell the truth and stand by the reputation of the news outlet you represent.
  3. Like Tim Russert did so well, journalists should strive to report on complex situations in such a way that the common working man and woman can understand.

Saddened by Tim Russert’s Death

Count me in among the millions of Americans whose Sunday morning routine was flipping the channel to “Meet the Press” and Tim Russert.

Now dead at the age of 58, we have lost one of the greatest journalists of all time and it is really saddening. I was always impressed by detailed and well researched his questions were. I loved the way Mr. Russert called people out without degrading them.

This is a tragedy for the mass media, a tragedy for our country and a tragedy for his family and everyone who knew him very well. God Bless.

Here are a couple of videos of Tim Russert interviewing John McCain and Barack Obama.


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