October 29th

Hi all,
During the last session, we talked about the structure of the course. It would be focusing on two main areas:
* The media in general: What is the media, problems and potential
* How the medis influence us: At the end of the course, we should be able to detect the writer's bias and to be sensitive to any subjectivity.
After this presentation, we talked about the first part: What is the media? The answer was classical: Radio, TV, Dailies, newspapers and Internet. But we didn't make any distincin between these medias. For example, some of them are too general (Le Monde, Le Figaro) and others are specific (La Croix, Les Echos), we can also find some local medias.
These medias are facing a lot of problems, for instance in terms of advertising,licensing, coverage, sources and also a lack of staff.
After, we watched a video talking about recession in the adult industry. In fact, the video presents the effets of crisis on pornography and shows this industry only from an economical angle without any ethical reference.Then, we read an article which was talking about the same subject and had exactly the same view on the phenomenon.
To be discussed!