Media Law & Literacy Class Blog

I  love sports, especially watching them. For you sports fanatics and ones that love watching sports the times are changing, we are becoming cordless and cheaper programing to watch your sports. With cable becoming less demanding for sports fans to watch their games, sports leagues are now turning to streaming to support games without having to pay for the high cost of cable just to have other programs you aren't even interested in.  For example, the NFL has an option to get NFL game-pass which live streams every game from any device for $200 for the entire season. That is about 5 months of football for $200 any game and anywhere. With cable, you don't even get every game. You get games that are local, unless you pay for both cable and NFL game-pass, who would pay for both if you barley even use your cable provider? This is very smart for the NFL as they can get money for their steaming services and have people use theirs and go totally away from cable. The bad news is they ca...

Technology has given us the freedom to express our opinions like never before. You now have social media, which has taken over free expression.  Before, not a lot of people could get out their opinions to the world unless they were famous, or had some kind of platform whether it be the press or conferences.  But not with technology you can give your opinion to everyone to see in the world. It also can help spread it, when people see something they agree with all they have to do is share or "retweet" the post and more and more people can see it.  Also, if you were to give your opinion somewhere with video, you can post those on social media and gives your opinion with expression so you can see how they really feel.  This helps strengthen the Freedom of Expression because now you can have your voice heard like never before and you can hear other peoples opinions too right from your home.  You can also see other peoples opinions on situations and see the other side...

  In 2006 Jack Dorsey, and Noah Glass founded Twttr.  Yes, you saw that correctly for people who didn't use Twitter until 2009 or after. Twitter was first named Twttr because in that time a lot of social media sites that took off used an abbreviation such as Flickr, Tumblr, and Scribd.   Twttr was created to send messages of only 140 characters or less to their followers as a post that was called a tweet, kind of like facebook but in a shortened way.  In 2009 everything changed, Twttr changed its name to what it is now Twitter, they added hashtags which took off into the social media world so people could click on it and see the trends going on in the world.  They also created retweeting, so any post could be shared on another account so it was another way for trends to start getting shared to the world. In 2010 Twitter had its biggest update to the interface that is not only smoother, but more like-able to look at for their audience to scroll through their time...

     The MLB and MLPA have been in discussions for the past month about starting a season without fans due to COVID-19 and they have had a ton of trouble coming to an agreement until about two days ago when they reached a 60 game agreement to play this July. The issue has been related to owners and to the pay the players would receive in these agreements as they would obviously have to take a pay cut. But everyone has had their opinion including tons of players on how the owners and the league has treated their product. Star players such as Bryce Harper, Christian Yelich, Andrew McCutchen, etc have been vocal on social media via twitter about the disagreements with the MLB and how the players are not being treated or compensated respectfully. This is a form of freedom of speech and freedom of assembly, with the players coming together with the MLBPA and saying that they will not play without a respectful compensation this is showing the league that they do not just own th...

     The reason I believe it is so hard to find websites that are antiwar and have such a big voice about it is that we have the military to protect and to serve us. Ever since the beginning of America's military we have had to go to war to protect our land and protect the people in it, so it has been normalized and is known that it can happen and sometimes it isn't our fault. A lot of countries have threatened us and have told us they would kill our people and hurt our land and we can't just let that happen. So it would be out of context for mainstream media to have a voice like this because that is what America was built on, and to us who believe sometimes we have to go to war it would just make us as citizens go "what?". Without war and without needing protection we would have no use for the US Military which would kill our economy and kill jobs, but also can kill our country as a whole. So for mainstream news media to put down the military and war would kill t...

As you all know with the killing of George Floyd there has been an outbreak of protests in all states. It's a great thing to see in the United States when we all come together to make a change for the better and let our voices be heard, especially great for the black community that deserves to finally be heard. But of course, there are people who are taking advantage of these voices and using it to their own advantage. As you have probably seen in the news, there have been peaceful protests but there has also been riots and looting of business's which have caused some local small businesses to completely shut down. In the U.S. Constitution, there are six freedoms and two of them are the freedom of assembly, and freedom to petition. Riots and Looting do not fall under these categories, it is completely illegal to do so. You are more than welcome as an American to get a group of as many people as you want and protest and let your voices be heard peacefully in any way shape or for...