Wednesday, October 31, 2012

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.

Sunday, October 7, 2012

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