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Blog Post #4

@YakustaLeader4

Differences between the news programs in an 18 year period is pretty hard to see just how much has changed. In the 1990 ABC World News, it was straight to the point, and told what was going on. It was also pretty boring to watch, one because of the outdatedness and two because the anchor was only telling the news. In the 2008 CNN video, it was more opened. There was more opinions involved and the technology was better in the picture and labels.

But how this goes along with remediation, I do not see it entirely. What my understanding of remediation is taking an old form of media and making it better basically. While the differences between how the technology in the broadcasting is different, and perhaps better, I didn’t really see how it goes along with Bolter and Grusin. If remediation is also saying how we have changed the way media is diplayed or done now, then it kind of works a little. Mainly how it would work is in how in the ABC broadcast it was straight to the point and not opinionated; this was done in 1990. And nowadays, with the CNN broadcast the “news” has become very opinionated in how the intervees were discussing their view on how Oprah would change how people percieved Obama. Since she was endorsing him, then  that maybe because of how much power she has, then people might think “Yes he has my vote because Oprah know’s what she is doing”, or something to that extent.

Blog Post #4

@JaredAbrahamWSU

 

In the two examples of ABC World News and the Oprah Winfrey CNN clips there were many differences. To me the biggest, and most obvious, difference was the picture quality. In the ABC clip the video appeared to be shot on some kind of low resolution film. In the Oprah Winfrey clip it looked like CNN was using digital Hi-definition cameras. Another large difference between the two was the narration. In the Peter Jennings ABC World News clip the narration was more monotone than the reporting. At one point reminding me of the old Walt Disney clips that would be showing off the plans for Disneyland. The ABC World News clip also seemed less biased, they were just telling you what was happening, instead of giving their opinion on the subject. In the CNN Oprah Winfrey clip, it seemed like there was a lot of confrontation between the news contributors,  which ABC didn’t even have in their clip. Both channels had some B-roll clips they played while the narration and debating were going on, the only difference was the Oprah Winfrey clip didn’t really have a story in the video. Whereas the ABC World News Clip relied heavily on the video to convey the story they were trying to tell. As far as New Media being “offered as an improvement” (Bolton and Grusin, pg. 79), I think the argument could go both ways. The technology is better by far in the newer clip, but I much prefer the unbiased story telling in the older clip.