The 9th Media Monitor (or any of the bonuses not yet submitted) can be posted here, deadline Friday Nov. 6 at 5pm.
The department has no administrative staff at present – students will no longer be receiving weekly reminders of their assignments in the email (in the first place, they are expected to know what the weekly assignments are — being college students).
There will be no media monitor during the APEC holiday week Nov. 17-20 (to be fair to everyone) while the 50-point exam will push thru in the last class week. There will be no media monitor in the last class week to be fair to all examinees.
In sum, the media monitor posts will be open in the following two weeks: Nov. 3, today, the 9th media monitor, deadline Friday 5pm Nov. 6. Finally, the 10th media monitor will be open on Nov. 10, deadline Nov. 13. As stated, there will be no media monitor during the holiday week and during the last class week.
As stated repeatedly, the cramming of media monitor posts is not allowed. And, to be redundant, the objective of the exercise is to build the habit of regularly viewing or reading the news and other media content with a discerning eye. For students who posted more than one post in a week, the extra post was applied to the next week. For the student who crammed three bonus posts in the window for the 8th media monitor post: The two extra posts will be applied to the two weeks after the 8th media monitor week, i.e., this week and the next. (the 9th Nov. 3, and the 10th Nov. 10).
Also, in view of the APEC holiday week, we are constrained to move our schedule of presentations one week in advance. All topics starting from reporting on tragedies, conflict-reporting etc. etc. ending up to the ethical challenges in documentary filmmaking, inclusive (inclusive of all topics in between the start, reporting on tragedies, up to ethical challenges in docu filmmaking) will have to be presented this week — students who are not ready with their presentation will forfeit their chance to report. The rest of the topics (advertising ethics, new media ethics, research or discussion on plagiarism) are expected to be presented next week.
Thanks everyone, and happy watching, reading and monitoring 🙂
The 8th Media Monitor (or the 6th bonus on disaster reporting, or 5th bonus or any not yet posted) can be submitted here. The deadline for the 8th Media Monitor is Friday 5pm.
The 6th bonus is on disaster-reporting over the past three weeks, in other words, it should be current media content. This covers any kind of disaster, natural or man-made, worldwide. The principles discussed in the reports should be cited and used as basis of the review.
Exams will push thru.
Embedded below are samples of reviews of ghost stories reported as news submitted last week by members of the class: louiseguevara, Francine Chloe Ramirez, and Mariah:
From louiseguevara, October 24, 2015 at 4:31 pm (5th Bonus) 2014-54202 On: abs-cbnnews.com/lifestyle/classified-odd/10/22/15/watch-paranormal-activity-old-manila-barangay-hall “Ilang araw na nga lamang ay Nobyembre na. Kaya naman, hindi maitatago na nagkalat na naman ang mga kuwentong katatakutan at kahit pa nga sa mga balita ay makababasa at makariring ka ng mga ganitong klase ng kuwento. Isa na nga rito ay ang artikulong ito na mula sa abs-cbnnews.com. Maaaring para sa karamihan, isang ordinaryong kuwento lamang ito ng katatakutan ngunit para sa akin na mag-aaral ng media ethics, nakita ko na may paglabag ang balitang ito sa pamantayan pagdating sa tamang pamamahayag.
“Nang binasa ko ang buong artikulo, para bang higit na layunin ng sinumang sumulat ang takutin ang kanyang mga mambabasa kesa ibahagi lang para sa kanilang kaalaman ang balita. Maliban sa pagsasabi kung anong lugar ang pinangyarihan ng nasabing “paranormal activity”, isinama pa sa balita ang mismong mga pahayag ng tanod na siyang nakaranas mismo ng nasabing pangyayari.
“Maaari ngang ang tanging intensyon ng artikulong ito ay para i-entertain ang mga mambabasa ngunit hindi maiiwasang baka magkaroon ito ng masamang epekto para sa ilan. Maaari pa nga nitong maapektuhan ang mga taong naninirahan malapit sa pinangyarihan at pati na rin ang operasyon ng old barangay hall — lugar na pinangyarihan.
“Kailangan ng mas maingat na pagkukuwento sa ganitong klase ng balita. Sana rin ay mas ginawang balanse ang balitang ito sa pamamagitan ng pagsasama ng panayam sa isang eksperto.
“Maaaring iugnay sa: KBP Broadcast Code: Art. 13 SUPERSTITION AND THE OCCULT”
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From Francine Chloe Ramirez October 24, 2015 at 5:55 pm, (5th Bonus)2014-07226 “Headless student caught on camera On: pinoytrending.altervista.org/headless-student-caught-on-camera/ “This article is about a picture with a headless student in the background. This photo was posted on Facebook. Though the article leaves room for inference, it still may convince some people that these stories of supernatural occurrences are perfectly true. The way it was written and its content could have been structured better. The line “But other people and paranormal experts were convinced that the photo is not edited” could have been elaborated more. They could have given the names of these experts and included a few quotes from them to add credibility. “The article also has various grammatical errors. Aside from this, the writer made it appear that there is a correlation between the appearance of the headless student and the death of another in the same school: “The most horrifying is when they got a news that one of the student of their school died on an accident hours after the headless student appeared to them.” “Also, it is not clear what kind of article this is. They should have specified if the article was submitted to them or if it was written by those from the site. They did not label.
♣ ♣ ♣ From Mariah October 25, 2015 at 1:44 am (5th Bonus) 2012-57213
“This was a reportage of a video with a monobloc chair seemingly moving on its own that went viral, with over a million views on the web. That must be the primary reason why it became a news subject with 1:44 minutes of screen time dedicated to it. They even went as far as to interview the man who was in the footage, with a blow-by-blow narration of the footage–complete with dissonant scary strings. “The newscaster introducing it disclaimed that it was “palaisipan”, but I don’t think it was relevant enough to be reported on. These videos are easily imitated. With a low-resolution camera and a thin string tied around the leg of the monobloc chair, anyone can easily fabricate this video. They just assumed that the video was true and asserted, “minulto o pinaglaruan”? But the way they interviewed the subject made it sound like a ghost. Even the sound design of the footage with strings that added suspense made it seem frightening and shocking to viewers, so it does bend KBP Broadcast Code’s Art. 13, Sec. 1. And they only mentioned that the video went viral towards the end of the article and the report. I just don’t think this is relevant or important enough to dedicate 1:44 minutes to.” gmanetwork.com/news/story/541635/news/ulatfilipino/watch-upuan-pinagalaw-ng-multo
