Claire Finney Blog

Product Placement Product placement or another name for it is Madison and vines is when manufacturers of goods gain exposure for their products by paying for them to be featured in movies and television. It can be seen in almost any show or movie. It’s in everything we watch were losing television just to become longer adds. When I was younger, I always remembered a very distinct use of product placement it was in one of my first movies Oliver and company. It wasn’t a very well none movie but it was one of the few cassettes tapes my grandmother had. In the middle of a singing number I realized all the billboards were filled with different add companies at first, I thought it was cool because look it was a company, I was familiar with in a movie I liked. It was confusing to me how they did that I thought the movie had just chosen to include these certain companies. The product placement is effectually used when the audience either think highly of the product or notices it in a wa...

Global Warming: who says it best? For my comparison of news site, I chose Natural News and New York times, Natural News is basically news focused on science. So, I chose two articles on global warming. So, I chose two global warming stories from the New York times “How Scientists Cracked the Climate Change Case” and Natural News “Global Warming “science” discovered to be founded on glaring math error that renders thousands of news reports false” Focusing on global warming is complicated though because a site can’t exactly blame global warming on one democrat or republican so we aren’t able to judge them on any political biases. As soon as I longed on to natural news the first story that popped up was “TERRAFORMING has begun: “Global dimming” is a plot to EXTERMINATE humanity by terraforming the atmosphere with SMOG pollution, killing Earth’s food crops and unleashing ecological collapse” which worsened my already skeptical opinions of this news site. As well as the floor to ce...

When Calls The Heart Flipping through the channels you stumble upon the hallmark channel iconic for corny movies and shows involving two helplessly in love people torn apart by obstacles and other factors. But one that comes to mind is a show calls When Called the Heart. This show, very cheesy came to my attention as soon as we found out how Strange the show was. The bases of the plot are set in the west were a school teacher helps a mining town and falls in love with the Mountie stationed there. What’s interesting to me about this show exactly is it complete disinterest of historical details. The show is fictional as it states but it's doesn't seem makes sense. The show is based in 1910s at the heart of an industrial revolution with electricity, water and other commodities coming to richer homes. In this small town we start off with a huge mine explosion and the loss of many of the husbands and sons, as Ms. Thatcher comes, she isn't used to this country life....

My Relationship with Media My relationship with media is a strained one. I often feel I can’t be five feet away from any phone, TV, or flashing adds, or whether it be social media reminding you have 20 new messages. The temptation to open them often overcomes us, procrastinating work and all other obligations. I think media is bad personally, if it would just disappear, I wouldn’t argue because I think we could all improve. Not saying that I myself don’t indulge in the media. For example, I love old movies and whenever I get the chance, I watch them, whether it’s Disney or some classic but the problem with this indulgence is all these movies promote love and one sole mate a happily ever after. So, after all these movies the only goal I see is this perfect life which was so delicately crafted in the movie to make it look real, when behind the scenes it’s nothing like that and no matter how much I tell myself it’s not realistic it always seems so tempting. The same applies with TV ...