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This article highlights the continued conflict between the MTV show "Jersey Shore" and the Italian-American group UNICO. UNICO has been critical of the show since the beginning, commenting that the show "perpetuates all sorts of negative stereotypes." The article also discusses how Snooki, a character from the television series, has criticized UNICO and the multiple companies who have pulled their advertisements from the show, including Dell and Dominoes Pizza. In response to the comments, UNICO issued a statement saying "She is not an embarrassment to Italian Americans -- she is actually an embarrassment to the entire human race!!!!"

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 is biased however it does talk about the the controversies that have been occuring and the feelings of Italian- Americans. It is interesting how some of the people that said that they disliked the show because of it's portrayals of Italian Americans say that they still find the show to be entertaining. Because TV is supposed to be entertaining, it makes you think about at what cost TV should be entertaining.

Link: http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2009/11/25/italian-american-group-asks-mtv-cancel-jersey-shore/ This article on Fox News talks about how two Italian American organizations UNICO and DiMino are against the show MTV Jersey Shore and that they want the show to be pulled off the air. They say that the show portrays Italian Americans negatively. I disagree....

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

i think this article is self explanitory...

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.

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.

We have all seen a commercial that we can't remember immediately after watching it, but when we see that product instantly recall the commercial. This article discusses how the advertising industry has used subliminal messaging to increase product sales and the way we remember product information.

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.