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This article talks about how advertisers such as Dominoes and Italian Americans groups are boycotting against the TV show "Jersey Shore". Dominoes has stopped advertising for "Jersey Shore" and is influencing other advertisers to follow. The largest Italian American group is the US ,Unico's, president Andre Demint and is telling all members to boycott by refusing to watch this show.

"Jersey Shore," the MTV reality show that claims to lift the veil over "one of the Tri-state area's most misunderstood species … the GUIDO" (as per its press materials), is offensive to Italian-Americans and shouldn't air, says Andre Dimino, the president of UNICO, the national Italian-American service organization based in Fairfield.

http://www.nj.com/entertainment/celebrities/index.ssf/2009/11/jersey_shore_offends_italian-a.html This article sets out trying to defend MTV's newest show, Jersey Shore by supplying 5 redeeming qualities. The author can only think of four! The first being, the Jersey shore is not actually that interesting and this portrayal will attract a lot of teenagers and young adults looking for the fun times shown on the program, boosting Jersey Shore's tourism rates and their economy. Two: this show will kill off the show "Keeping Up with the Kardashians," a show that the author apparently dislikes more than Jersey Shore. Three: young people need bad examples to learn what not to do. And four: Now we can shut down all the things that led to the Actors stupidity and bad judgments like the schools they frequented.

This article is a response by many lawmakers around the world to the show "Jersey Shore." They felt that the show is degrading to Italian Americans nationwide, and uses the world "guido" way too much. In response, the MTV team said that the show is not intended to depict Italians stereotypically.

this article discusses how young minds do not feel affected by the stereotypes in Jersey Shore, and how they neglect them.

In this article they are not talking a lot about the plot and setting about Jersey Shore. Rather, they are talking about the word guido and the stereotype this show is making. This article is saying that the word guido is a word that is very offensive to all Italian Americans. They say the word guido is a very offensive word for Italian Americans and they are shocked by how MTV is using it like it means nothing on network television. The article definitely has a point because the word guido is a very demeaning word for Italian Americans. The article talks about how the word guido is not the term you could usually call someone and pretend it's not a big deal. They say that because of the show Jersey Shore, it is a much more common word and it is making the population of young Italian Americans look bad.

NPR: 50 Great Voices is a weekly music oriented podcast. Every week the broadcast showcases a relatively unheard amazing vocalist whom they wish to share with their listeners. Each week of the year a new singer is brought on the show, this episode was broadcasted on February 1, 2011. This week's episode was focused on a jazz/pop singer named Dianne Reeves who the show was interested in because of the fact that she'd so beautifully mixed the two genres. The show provides a brief background history of the singer, i.e. what they've done in the past, who they've worked for, and what records they appear on. After listening to the two songs by Dianne Reeves the show provided I have come to the conclusion that she is an exceptionally talented woman, who is way worth listening to and in the future I would like to see new pieces of her career become public.

NPR. Date Broadcasted: January 31, 2011. Genre: Arts Sarah Campbell, a senior curator of the Norton Simon Museum, "sheds light" on the museum it self and Mr. Simon himself. The museum holds much less pieces of paintings than any other but it only holds the fines pieces. This is due to the fact of Mr. Simons boldness, Sarah Campbell says. Mr. Simon has even bid agains the Metropolitan Museum, the finest one in the country. His consistency has brought im over 8000 fine pieces over three decades. Even though the painting he bid against Met. had been taken to them but Mr. Simon himself had quiet a lot of successes. Sarah Campbell describes the man and the museum very superiorly and one could just by hearing it, tell that she looks up to him and the museum. Mr. Simon died in 1993 but he was a fine businessman, and an owner of an amazing museum, which contains a fine history of arts.

NPR-Talk of the Nation. January 31, 2011. Genre: Talk Show/ World News. Bill Gates goes onto the show to discuss the issue of polio, a disease that was thought to have been completely eliminated by vaccination. According to Bill Gates there are many countries including India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Nigeria where polio is still an epidemic. It is his goal to eliminate this disease once and for all throughout the world. Bill Gates has invested over 400 million dollars in this process.

Source: NPR. Date: December 30, 2010. Genre: Music. Sami Yenigun explores a new type of house music called dubstep. Known for its heavy bass, dubstep has began to take the music scene by storm. Derived from London, England, dubstep is a very new genre of music that falls into the electronic or house category. This type of music is particularly attracting to the younger crowds, mainly college level students. Artists such as Nero, Caligula, Skrillex and James Blake have become popular names in this new kind of music. Since it is so appealing to the younger and more energetic crowds, it got some of the biggest response at music festivals such as the Electric Daisy Carnival.

This is the fundamental obstacle to understanding where technology culture is heading: increasingly, it's about everything.

This is the fundamental obstacle to understanding where technology culture is heading: increasingly, it's about everything.

There's Alex Jones and there's Jason Jones. The two unrelated ­Joneses offer competing commentaries on journalism in our times.

What's surprising, however, is not just the alarming number of students who say they cheat, but also the number of students who think it's OK to do so.

Media literacy is the ability to sift through and analyze the messages that inform, entertain and sell to us every day. It's the ability to analyze all aspects of the media like music videos, online environments and the many advertisements in sports. There are three stages of media literacy. 1: BE AWARE. Know what you watch and limit the amount of time on the internet, television, games, and other forms that market to the masses. 2: BE ABLE TO QUESTION AND ANALYZE THE MEDIA. Learn to analyze what you are watching by observing what is in the advertisement and what is left out. 3: KNOW BACKGROUND INFORMATION. Ask questions like who produces the media we experience and for what purpose? Who profits? Who loses? And who decides? This analysis allows us to understand who drives our global economy and ultimately allows us to make better decisions based on our own opinions.

My article is about what specifically media literacy is and how we can implement it into classrooms to give children a better understanding of our society. The article features 7 excerpts from other articles about media literacy, such as "The 3 Stages of Media Literacy", which states "the principles and practices of media literacy education are applicable to all media- from television to T-shirts, from billboards to the Internet". I believe that media literacy, while it is something that is not needed, can greatly enrich a person's life, especially in the society that we live in today that focuses so much on advertising and different forms of communication.

"In some ways, this marketing push has been happening for years: Companies hawking a variety of goods, from diamonds to digital cameras, have been eager to get parent bloggers to write posts that tout their products. But recently, these bloggers say, food companies have upped the ante, bombarding them with free trips to corporate kitchens and mountains of edible swag."

Through things you've searched, videos you've watched and e-mails you've sent, google creates a profile about you, whether you have a google account or not. Though google claims it uses your profile to make its services work better, it actually uses this information to sell you to advertisers. By the things you search, google decides what advertisements to show.