@samai 14
I noticed many differences between ABC world news and Oprah. Some of the most obvious differences between them were the colors .They were too boring and not as bright as Oprah. Other obvious differences are the music, commercials, appearance, and speech. The way Peter Jennings spoke to the audience was different. His way of speech, his tone it was just different than the Oprah. The ways the commercials are presented are different. For example talking on the phone while driving is not okay anymore and in one of the ABC commercials they were advertising at&t using card and we don’t see that anymore. We also don’t see those cars or huge phones/cellphones. Moving on to the technology part on Oprah there’s a lot of screen changing, 3 different people from different places fit in one screen and they’re live and they ask for the public’s opinion by sending an email. I don’t see any of this on the ABC world news. I just feel like news is more realistic now than before. Bolter and Grusin say “in order to create a sense of presence, virtual reality should come as close as possible to our daily visual experience. Its graphic space should be continuous and full of objects and should fill the viewer’s field of vision without rupture.” (p. 67) one last thing I noticed that has nothing to do with technology or new media is that they both talk about a certain race. I feel like ABC sees and treats “blacks” as they refer to them as minorities but on Oprah they have power and are wealthy.