Dayna

I actually have a mood that has two alternate components. The environment of this mood stems from a day at home in the bed on a rainy day. Depending on whether or not I am sad or reflective of a situation going on in my life I may be inclined to play music that is rather sad and depressing. If I am generally in a happy or content mood I will more than likely play love songs. Below are the songs that I would play for each situation.

Sad or Depressing Mix

1. “The Scientist” by Cold Play Rush of Blood To The Head (2002)
2. “Clocks: by Cold Play Rush of Blood To The Head (2002)
3. “I Will Remember You” by Sarah Mc Lachlan Mirrorball (1999)
4. “How You Remind Me” by Nickelback Silver Side Up (2001)
5. “Too Bad” by Nickelback Silver Side Up (2001)
6. “Why Do I Feel So Sad” by Alicia Keys Songs in A Minor (2001)
7. “Over And Over Again” by Nelly Featuring Tim Magraw Suite (2004)
8. “Walk Away” by Christina Aguilera Stripped (2002)
9. “Forgotten” by Avril Lavigne Under My Skin (2004)
10. “He Wasn’t” by Avril Lavigne Under My Skin (2004)
11. “I Care For You” by Aaliyah Aaliyah (2001)

Happy or Content Mix

1. “Game Over” by Destiny’s Child Destiny Fulfilled (2004)
2. “Dangerously In Love 2” by Beyonce Dangerously In Love (2003)
3. “Charlene” by Anthony Hamilton Comin’From Where I’m From (2003)
4. “Its Whatever” by Aaliyah Aaliyah (2001)
5. “Love” by Destiny’s Child Destiny Fulfilled (2004)
6. “Rendezvous” by Craig David Born To Do It (2001)
7. “Key To My Heart” by Craig David Born To Do It (2001)
8. “Never Stop Loving You” by Dru Hill Dru World Order (2002)
9. “Don’t Change” by Musiq Juslisen (2002)
10. “This Love” by Maroon 5 Songs About Jane (2002)
11. “Can You Handle It” by Usher Confessions (2004)
12. “Diary” by Alicia Keys The Diary of Alicia Keys (2004)
13. “Butterflyz” by Alicia Keys Songs In A Minor (2001)

My on the media segment this week was titled “The Pistol and the Olive Branch” and was about whether or not the leader of the Palestine Liberation Organizer Yasir Arafat was a martyr or a peacemaker. The media created conflicting images of Arafat; in one he was a symbol of his people’s struggle and the second was that of a terrorist. Although Arafat was not our ideal image of a media idol because he was not attractive or interesting to look at, he still managed to be an ever present image in the media. He was considered to be an entertainer who could play the press. He had the ability to tailor his presentation based on his audience.

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The original Alfie movie was made in 1966 and starred Michael Canie. The movie was labeled as a comedy and the plot revolved around a man named Alfie who was obsessed with himself and enjoyed sleeping with, and manipulating women. The original Alfie character came off as a cold, detached, calculating, charming, but arrogant individual whose main goal was to please himself by sleeping with as many women as possible. He rationalized sleeping around as helping to take care of women’s needs; a majority of the women that he slept around with were married or had come out of a relationship where their men did not value them. Alfie saw it as his duty to show them how they should be treated.

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My On the Media segment was titled “Stand by Our Man” and was about newspapers endorsements of presidential candidates. So far, 60 papers have endorsed Kerry and 53 have endorsed Bush. Two out of the five most popular papers, The New York Times and the Washington Post, have endorsed President Bush. Another popular paper, The Wallstreet Journal, say that they do not need to openly endorse a candidate because they believe that they show their position through the material that they run in their paper.

The guest on the show, Joe Strupp, senior editor for Editor and Publisher Magazine, said that the process of deciding which candidate to endorse involves a meeting of the editorial board who discusses and then votes on which candidate to officially endorse. Publishers can have the final say, but the rarely use their veto power. Strupp also said that dissenting opinions are sometimes present in the newspaper at the time of official endorsement, but the do not attack the endorsement.

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Jeff Cohen, Former MSNBC/ FOX News contributor remarked, “media is the nervous system of the democracy.” According to him we cannot function without it because it is where we receive all of our information involving politics. Fox News has taken this notion to an extreme. Their news programs are full of propaganda and biasness and they really don’t seem to care. I’ve always been outraged at Bill O’ Riley, but after watching this documentary, (in particular the scene where he bites the head off the guy whose father died in 9/11) I don’t understand how he can be considered a journalist. (Maybe he’s just a commentator, hired to present some news some of the time. I’m not really sure what his title is, but he is really rude and should be fired.) The amount of times that Bill O’ Riley told people to “shut up” when they said something that he did not agree with would have gotten anyone else fired. Some people may watch it because they think it is funny. I think that it’s disrespectful and totally inappropriate for a news anchor to go there.

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