Obama, Chaos Scenario, Fun

I would first like to apologize for the lateness of this blog post. It slipped from my mind this weekend and with a rather important science test on Monday coupled with a strenuous weekend of WGRE baseball games against Case Western, I didn't get to it. But, I enjoyed last week's classes big time. Jon Coffin is my man. Xiiiiiiiiii!!!!!! He's a great chapter advisor and I learned a lot about his career in politics and here at DePauw. I had no idea that he was the man who really integrated our website, making it more attractive for incoming students and more receptive to the needs of the student body here at DePauw. Obviously, I feel like we all can learn something from those in public relations. There are ingredients that go into the profession that make it really important and as a broadcaster, I am also interested in the field. That also delves into my political interests where public relations can either bring up a candidate, Barack Obama, or act as extreme damage control, John Edwards...actually never mind public relations won't help you sir. As for my newspaper article, yes I did read an article from last week's Thursday paper. Why did I pick a selection from this seemingly random day in the New York Times? Well, easy answer, my main man "The O Dog" President Barack Obama gloriously adorned the front section with a sly grin. He's awesome. I will be campaigning for the guy shortly. Still waiting for Dr. Bohmer to let me know how I can defeat any batch of helpless Republicans. The article I chose was related to the race.It's also about my state...Go Bucks! "For President And Romney, Ohio Hurdles" was the title. Ohio is a state that always go with the victor of the presidential race. Specifically, Columbus is the place to win. The article expresses how the state is still crucial to both Romney's and Obama's plans. Obama and Romney are both plugging away in 'The Heart of it All' for votes from us cow loving midwestern folks. Cows are the simple part of our state, figuring out how to win in my state is the hardest part. Working class whites are what both candidates have to fight for. The economy still sucks in the industrious state of Ohio. Many of those in the manufacturing sector will not vote again for Obama and it is up to the President to gain their trust and reveal Romeny's money grubbing, individualistic tendencies. People still don't like Romney in our state and the article touches on that fact. But that might be cancelled by voters like the dude from Brookville, Ohio who said he hasn't seen much "change" as promised during the presidents campaign. http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150525674260672&set=a.10150272428280672.326880.569695671&type=1&theater. That's my response to those claims. But Ohio might pail in importance to Florida, Virginia, and North Carolina this year, states that are proving even more open minded with more educated people moving to those areas. Obviously these intelligent people who have the ability to read past a third grade level and who might care than something other than a fat paycheck, are Democrats. There's the news. Vote Blue As for the book, it's interesting and I loved our discussion about these topics Monday. Is the business model for the newspaper dead? Certainly yes, in the hard form but not on the Internet. Is the television model dead? No, Garfield I disagree. I said it in class Monday. The television will thrive. Sports it the example medium. There are way more channels and audiences for small niche, narrowcast markets. Those will continue to grow and I expect to see the "The Ohio State University" channel on soon...to a global audience. To say the media cannot survive through records, television, the radio is ludicrous. Advertisers can still approach these mediums, but they need to get more creative. We discussed product placement as a means to still achieve success. Television I would say is growing while, sure, records are going down, but the media can still make money from music by switching to a more live concert oriented approach. There are ways around the more open forms of communication if you will that make it hard for media companies to make money. In the end though, people are still paying for the radio, television, and news in a niche, more specified form.