Campus Tour

Fox Vs. CNN

At first glance, the sites aren't too different. CNN has a bolder layout while FOX seems much more neutral. I may be bringing the stereotypes I've learned about FOX and CNN into this, but that can't be helped. The two top stories featured on the home page for CNN are about flooding and the militia preparing to kill. The top story on the FOX homepage is also about the flooding. So far, no real differences are seen. They both have standard pictures, videos, and stories. Perhaps the content of the stories is more different.One thing I noticed in the stories about the flooding in Rhode Island was in a sentence that was meant to say exactly the same thing. CNN said, "Obama extended a state of emergency on Monday for the entire state, freeing up federal dollars to help with relief efforts." Whereas FOX News said,"President Barack Obama issued an emergency declaration for Rhode Island, ordering federal aid for disaster relief and authorizing the Federal Emergency Management Agency to coordinate relief efforts" With just the slight difference in words, they tell the same story, but convey a different meaning. CNN made it sound like Obama was being a hero freeing money to help, whereas FOX made it sound like he was demanding money that wasn't rightfully his to demand. Overall, they are both interesting sites to look at.

Super Slideshow

Slideshows/Photo Gallery

Tour de France
This slideshow was a bunch of pictures of a guy in France, and many of the famous attractions there. It had a slow French song playing in the background that made it seem a little sad, whereas I think it was meant to be captivating. With the song in the background the number of pictures displayed was limited, whereas the one with just the pictures seemed like it could on forever. However, I thought this was a little more effective than just the slideshow because the multiple things (music and pictures) kept my attention better. Sound really sets the emotional mood to go along with the pictures.

Massive Earthquake Strikes Chile
This was a slideshow of 793 pictures of the aftermath of the earthquake in Chile. The pictures conveyed what was going on, and what I like about them most was you clicked to go on to the next one, so you could look at each picture as long as you wanted to. With just the pictures, and no sound, the pictures alone influence your mind, so you get to more purely understand the pictures.

Zoom-Worthy Academy Award Photo Gallery
This was a bunch of pictures of people from the Academy Awards. The cool part about it was that you could zoom in on the pictures to catch flaws, so we can all see that celebrities have flaws too. I thought it was a really cool setup, though it didn't really tell a story.

Podcast -- Why We Are Here

Nearly two weeks ago, our team sought to answer a question: why are we here? While we knew we weren’t about to solve the mystery of existence, we hoped to learn why we, the student body of LSC, had chosen this school for our higher education. We interviewed several random students and asked them why they came to LSC. We then compiled these interviews into a podcast, which you can listen to by clicking on the title of this post. As you will hear, the students gave us some interesting answers.

Not surprisingly, several students cited LSC’s television studies program as their reason for attendance. All the television studies majors we interviewed mentioned the program’s quality; one mentioned how hard it is to find this major at other schools. One of our interviewees hopes to become an anchor for ESPN and was attracted to LSC’s television studies program because it has sent 24 grads on to ESPN. Such answers have confirmed our suspicion that LSC’s television studies program is widely known and a big draw, and it appears we have many future news anchors and sports casters in our midst.

Other answers were more humbling. One student reports coming because of the relatively low cost; another picked LSC because he claims not to have gotten good grades in high school and was unable to get into other schools. Clearly, LSC is a place where even those who might not otherwise go to college can feel welcome.

Yet not all came to LSC out of desperation. One student reported having the option to go to much more prestigious schools, but he chose LSC because he liked its small classes and friendly atmosphere. Apparently, LSC has some special qualities that belie its small size and lack of grandeur.

So why are we here? We are here because we want to be on TV, because we have nowhere else to go, or because we simply like the place. But no matter why we came, we all seem happy we did: all of our subjects gave enthusiastic answers. But don’t take our word for it. Listen to the podcasts, and hear the real words of your colleagues as they reveal why they are part of the LSC community. We hope you will like our set-up, but most of all, we hope you will connect with what you hear, and perhaps see some of yourself in our subjects responses. Above all, we hope you will agree that we belong in this school together.

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For our podcast, we are going to interview students about why they came to LSC and make a podcast of their responses accompanied by a story.