My results were experiencer and achiever and i believe these results reflect fairly well with me as a person, but only to a certain extent.  I have experienced many different things in 23 years of my life that have added to me as a person and my personality so i do agree with the results here.  I have also achieved many things throughout the years, but i have also failed to achieve many times.  All of this adds to the person that i am and i thought the survey did a good job of discovering that.  I really didnt learn anything more about myself, but it did help me recognize the things i have achieved throughout my life.  I dont think this information does anything for me as a consumer.

Podcast notes

• How the media blew up Don Imus' quote "nappy headed hoes".  
• The media, mainly ESPN focused on the quote and the man who said it more than the story itself.  ESPN is a sports channel and they barely reported that the quote was describing the women playing in the national championship game.  
• Quote is without question out of line, but Imus is a shock jock, its what he does.  
• Many shock jocks say outragous things simply to get airtime. 
• Rush Limbaugh said racial comments on tv and continued to have a successful radio career.  
• Wendy Williams says most outragous comments and career has benefited from it
• Shaquille Oneil made fun of Yao Ming using racial slurs and there were no problems
• Media got him fired, NAACP and other organizations raised concern and then decision was made
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The specific media message i think of immediately is the under Armour baseball ads that you see before every baseball season.  I have played baseball my entire life, and these ads are directed at the players, not the fans, or the player's moms.  These commercials display imagery from the pregame warm up, to in game action, like the bat connecting perfectly with the ball.  This media experience directly effects the way i want or think i should play ball.  Suddenly every routine ground ball hit at me i began to act like i was Omar Vizquel from the mid 90's Cleveland Indians.  This commercial put this idea in my mind of how i should play and unbelievably it effects the way i do play.  New media is and extension of the body and you are starting to see it more and more in today's world.  I can be at a baseball game, send a tweet out that the team is short one outfielder for the game, and within ten minutes someone will have tweeted me back asking wheres the game.  The global media has grown immensely and so has everyone's place in it.  I don't consider myself to be a large contributor to the "global village" idea, but then i really had to think about it.  The only action that i have taken that requires wide scale connectivity across the globe is when i order parts for my vehicle.  I ordered a borla exhaust system for my truck, and i shipped from japan and was on my front doorstep 4 days later.  Overall media has had a large impact on my life, similar to the average American.  I don't consider myself to be in the "global village", yet because i really don't require anything from around the world.  I can say that over the past five years, media's role in my life has doubled at least.  The arrival of the smart phone raised my relationship with new media, but i am still waiting to take that next step to be a technological determinist. 

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My stance on copyleft and copyright in the internet world of today is one the doesnt quite agree with the rules in place.  I beleive that the internet makes copyleft and copyright obsolite because the internet so openly expresses ideas and in many different platforms.  Technology has become more and more about communication and sharing of information that it is only a matter of time until the laws are useless.  They should reanalyze society and then rewrite the laws so that they have an impact.  The gradual advancement of culture combined with the ease of copy and paste makes copyright and copyleft obsolite.