Hey everyone!!
This week we needed to make an article on Storify. It is a very cool site to make articles yourself and show twitter feeds and also facebook comments. For my first ever Storify article I wrote about NBA rumors. I specifically focus only on one free agent Andrew Bynum. The reason for picking him is because I am a huge Los Angeles Lakers fan and he was recently apart of there championship team. Although he was traded last season I still thought of him as a Laker.
To read on with these rumors you can view my storify article HERE!!
Tuesday 9 July 2013
Monday 8 July 2013
Summative Blog Post: Twitter or Television?
For the title of my last blog I tried to keep readers
thinking. The title is “News Travels Fast! But Whats Faster? Twitter or
Television.” Jlucianoo had great comments towards the title and his comment
that said “I immediately said that Twitter is faster but if you would have
asked what was more accurate my answer would most likely have been television”
really stood out. I would have to agree with this comment because although
twitter is very quick at delivering news, television will not show it on TV
until they 100% know that it is the truth.
Mohamad Rashad Koudsi also brings up great points in his comments
when saying that “It (Twitter) is making it possible for people to express what
they want and most importantly in a free way which overcomes the controlled and
scanned paths that any story would go through to get to the public.” He also
explains that he would personally follow a real professional journalist and
monitor sources that cover the same topic. I think that is great because like I
said earlier in the post professional journalist that are on television will
not show the news unless it’s accurate.
This weeks module helped me think about the importance of
twitter and what its really used for. It also taught me how to difference twitter
from actual facts. Twitter is a great tool for everyday people to tell people
your opinions, but in the real world your opinions are separated from the
truth. Twitter can be used to disagree with topics that are trending and also
agree with them. When using twitter I will only say what is in my mind and not
make up news because that’s not my job. I may retweet a report by CNN or CP24
and also news from the NBA, but I wont make it up myself.
Wednesday 3 July 2013
News Travels Fast! But Whats Faster? Twitter or Television?
Growing up
in the generation in which media do not only covered on television but also
other outlooks such as the Internet. The Internet has brought people many
different ways of communicating information to the news. Technology
has played an important role as disruptor and enabler in these developments,
even if – of course – it has not determined their eventual course. First, the
rise of the Internet as a popular medium has led to a substantial increase in
available channels for information and entertainment, among other purpose
(Bruns and Highfield). Blogs, Twitter, and Facebook are the first steps of journalism
these days. When there is a breaking story it is communicated through twitter
then evidentially hits the television on the news. Digital media technologies
such as Twitter facilitate the instant, online dissemination and reception of
short fragments of information from sources outside the formal structures of
journalism (Hermida, 2012). The question with Twitter would be “is the good?” I
do think that twitter provides new opportunities for everyday posters. It
allows the everyday person be the first to break news.
Right now it
is the offseason for many big sports such as Hockey, Basketball, and Football.
To get the latest news, I follow my favorite journalist that are first to
notice when a player is being signed and I think that it twitter is great and provides
first hand news. There are many things that twitter and other social media can
do for activism in any sense. If someone felt very strongly about an idea and
wanted to get more people involved they can use twitter and social media to
gain more attention. With the growth of twitter I think that many people will
shift there attention from watching news channels such as CNN or BBC and start
focusing on twitter to bring people the news quicker.
References
Hermida, A. (2012). TWEETS AND TRUTH: Journalism as a discipline of collaborative verification. Journalism Practice. 6:5-6, p659-668.
Bruns, A. & T. Highfield. (2012). Blogs, Twitter, and breaking news: The produsage of citizen journalism. pre-publication draft on personal site [Snurb.info]. Published in: Lind, R. A. ed. (2012). Produsing Theory in a Digital World: The Intersection of Audiences and Production. New York: Peter Lang. p15-32.
Friday 28 June 2013
Podcast
The podcast I recorded is based on a article by Tim Wood a senior writer at bleacher report. The article is about rumours that have happened in the past in sports. I once again talk about basketball as the main points. Picking this article was easy for me because I do not always agree with the rumours surrounding sports. This is due to the lack of consistency and the affects it can have.
It is my first ever podcast so please bare with me on it! There are lots of room for improvement!!
Wood, T. (2010, May 17). Craziest Rumors in Sports. Bleacher Report. Retrieved from http://bleacherreport.com/articles/393219-lebron-james-mom-delonte-west-and-the-20-craziest-rumors-in-sports
It is my first ever podcast so please bare with me on it! There are lots of room for improvement!!
Wood, T. (2010, May 17). Craziest Rumors in Sports. Bleacher Report. Retrieved from http://bleacherreport.com/articles/393219-lebron-james-mom-delonte-west-and-the-20-craziest-rumors-in-sports
Monday 24 June 2013
Summative Blog Post: Free Music or iTunes?
For this weeks blog I was a little surprised when reading
others post that they actually download music of iTunes. With so many different
ways for people to get music free why pay? I was also very surprised of Riley’s
comment when she said “You may be one of the first people I know of who purchases
albums off of Amazon (I'm curious to know why you don't buy the album at HMV or
Sunrise).” To answer this question, I use Amazon because it takes 1-2 days to
actually get the album. Amazon also offers discounts to repeat customers, which
is very useful. I find that with the advancements of online shopping that HMV
and Sunrise are very likely to go out of business, it is much easier to earn
the discounts from a site that you may purchase more then one item.
I was also surprised that newmediumnewmessage said, “I
have just recently discovered how easy it is to illegally download.” Many
people do not know websites in where they can download free music and some of
the websites are a little bit fishy when you first go on them. These websites
have popup, which can scare some people away. I have never heard of someone
being charged with downloading online. Though, I have once downloaded a movie
off a website when I was younger and got a message in the mail saying I have downloaded
a movie that is not out on DVD yet, and it was just a warning from Rogers that
I should stop. Also, like Riley said in her post "Being a musician/artist creating a fan base is way more important because those fans will support you by purchasing merchandise or concert tickets." The amount of money people saves when downloading music or DVD’s
for free can go towards people’s education instead towards iTunes. They can even go towards people going to see artist concerts in which they might purchase merchandise. I find that
it is very useful to download illegally and if someone asked me how to download
a song online I would gladly show them.
Monday 17 June 2013
The Art of Music: To Purchase Rather than Download
When purchasing music I either buy a song on iTunes or buy
an album on Amazon. How many people do you think actually do this though? I am
a avid fan of downloading my music rather than purchasing it from places like
Apple and Amazon. I know that most Athletes listen to music before a game and
have always wondered how they get their songs and often find myself asking “Do
they get it before the public since its possible they are friends with the
artists? Do they download it? Or do they do the right thing and purchase it?
“The battle
over online music in the US turned ugly in the summer of 2003 when the
Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) initiated lawsuits against its
own consumers (Condry, 2004)”. Also Burkhart and McCourt (2003) state, “The
1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) extended intellectual property
protection to domains pre- viously overlooked by federal copyright law. When people
are downloading music it is technically illegal and with a copyright code
record labels can sue the people who “leak” albums and songs. This
sometimes scares people into downloading music or videos because they think
that if they get caught they can possibly get charged or sued for lots of
money.
Purchasing
music can be very expensive. On iTunes it costs $1.29 per song and as a student
who enjoys listening to music it could be very pricey in the long run. The
quality is usually better when you buy a song but if you like burning CD’s for
your car or friends downloading makes the music into a MP3 mod is better. It
allows you to put more than 19 songs and you can still enjoy the music at a
lesser quality. If I could tell people weather to download a song or purchase I
would recommend that they download. This practice conflicts with copyright
issues because I would be recommending people to break the law.
Overall, I
think that if iTunes charged a monthly fee much like Netflixs more people would
be welcome to purchasing music online. It would allow consumers to purchase a
monthly subscription with songs that they can listen to and keep on there
computers for a certain amount of time.
References
McCourt, T., P. Burkart. (2003). When Creators, Corporations and Consumers Collide: Napster and the Development of On-line Music Distribution. Media, Culture & Society. 25 (3), pg. 333-350
Condry, Ian. (2004). Cultures of Music Piracy: An Ethnographic Comparison of the US and Japan. International Journal of Cultural Studies. 7 (3), pg. 343-363
Friday 14 June 2013
Sports: They Can Be Remixed Too!!
The short video I show the that sports can be remixed just like movies, television, and music. I specifically focus on the NBA in the short video and show that when one team becomes creative and WINS others will follow to do the same!
I created the clip using Mozilla Popcorn, and took the videos used from YouTube, while the pictures where taken from google. The pictures have direct links to the original posters.
Here it is!! https://brandonisraelson.makes.org/popcorn/15q3
Hope you enjoy!!
Brandon
Monday 10 June 2013
Summative Blog Post: Surprising
This week’s module was to give us (the class) the knowledge
that many things we consume have already been created once before. There were
many surprises this week for me because I love music, and movies. It is very
hard for people born in the 90s to know that the music they might be listening
to contains content from someone else’s song created in the 40s/60s/etc. I used to thing some producers were just creative in making instrumentals for song artist, but know I wonder if they are just using something that was already created. With movies it is understandable because there are so many of them but its very hard to come up with a blockbuster film without having the creation of a film that was not a successful book or the movie being a sequel. Many movies that have broken records (Batman, Avengers, Harry Potter) are based a book/comic that people grew up loving. There are so many books out there, that have yet to be transformed into movies but as a movie lover I still look forward to seeing movies and listening to music that have remade into new versions of the original.
Courtney Semmler brought up a great quote in her comments about in my initial blog this week “Online
Consumer/Produce: A Copyright Free Internet?” This quote was "If you
steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's
research" by Wilson Mizner. This is exactly how YouTube works, people steal a video and make it there own, and this keeps continuing throughout YouTube. If a YouTube user is creating a cover of a successful song it is the same process. It would be interesting for me to see people to come up with there own creative ideas and become the next online success story.
Thursday 6 June 2013
Online Consumer/Produce: A Copyright Free Internet?
Kirby Ferguson’s four-part documentary (Everything is a Remix) was very
interesting. He showed his followers that many things in Hollywood are repeated
or “fixed” into how the artists want it. I found that in the video’s we learn
that many movies are based on books, or sequels, and that songs instrumentals
are very similar to original songs made by jazz artist in the early
1900’s.
In the past year, I have consumed and produced many
different things by incorporating it online. Consumed is a very big part of online history for people, it
is typically the knowledge that one has absorbed from online. Assignments
handed out in class would not be completed if it weren’t for looking online to
make it creditable. Many people also consume different things. I may enjoy
sports but not everyone does. So when I gain knowledge online about sports, I
am consuming the information. Producers love consumers! To be a producer you
are hoping that consumers are going to buy or in Kirby Ferguson’s case donate.
With that said, I have produced online material using YouTube so that everyone
could enjoy what was made. But I did not charge anyone money or ask for any
donations. Today
many of the clips on video-sharing sites like YouTube bear a remarkable
similarity to these early films. They too address the audience directly, are
exhibitionist and are frequently sensational and shocking (Rizzo. T). To be
encouraged to produce my own online content I would have to be very committed
to the topic and need financial backup to keep it interesting and fun!
Online communities of “producer- consumers”
literate in new media work toward building a robust and freely accessible
cultural commons in the face of restrictive copyright laws in many different
ways. For instance Jenkins (2004) said in his article that “New media technologies have lowered production and distribution
costs, expanded the range of available delivery channels and enabled consumers
to archive, annotate, appropriate and recirculate media content in powerful new
ways.” Have I followed these rules? no ... When downloading music I do not buy it from iTunes or buy a CD from a store, I download it from a website. I know that I am facing copyright laws by doing this but it has never stopped me from continuing. Many people around the world do not follow these laws and if they were to build a new way of having a cleaner internet, I think many people would be left unhappy!
References
Rizzo, T. YouTube: the New Cinema of Attractions SCAN | journal of media arts culture. Vol 5, No. 1, Online journal.
Jenkins, H. (2004) The Cultural Logic of Media Convergence International Journal of Cultural Studies March 2004 7: 33-43
Friday 31 May 2013
Does Wikipedia Work With Sports Media?
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| http://comm200fa11.wordpress.com/2011/10/21/is-wikipedia-worthy/ |
Luciano (2013) stated, “The
only use I had for Wikipedia was for answers to quick questions to prove facts
on people, bands and TV shows.” This is very true for
individuals in the sports media business. Wikipedia can be used to find out
personal information about players in a league from life history to career
statistics. Is Wikipedia my first option
when I want to look at yearly and career stats for Points Per Game (PPG)? No, I
would look at NBA.com to find out that information. Why? Because I prefer looking
at the direct source that is constantly being updated and has been keeping
track players history in the league for years, and update daily.
Often times to enhance the credibility of tidbits
of information, I use the handy footnotes that are hopefully attached! Then I
do an investigation! I click on the source that the information came from and
voila, I have proof that what’s being said is probably valid. For example, the
other day I was going through my basketball cards and noticed a card from a
former NBA prospect named Eddie Griffin. I remember he passed away as a player,
but I didn’t remember how. So I went to the handy Wikipedia for some
information. The Wikipedia page said he died from a car accident. I wanted to
know more so I clicked on the footnote attached. In my opinion, a footnote adds
so much more credibility to what you see on Wikipedia.
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| Vince Carter (Toronto Raptors) Hurt on the bench. Courtesy of: http://hungryleafsfan.blogspot.ca/2009_11_01_archive.html |
So, I randomly chose to pick an NBA player to
search up and that player was ex Toronto Raptors star Vince Carter. He is the Toronto Raptors best player in franchise history and was a player know for his crazy dunks. Many people may say that he got Canadians more interested in become professional basketball players, and NBA superstar Kevin Durant has said that he grew up wanting to be like Vince Carter (Its good that he didn't because he is now the NBA's best young athlete). I looked on
the “Talk” page on Wikipedia and found lots of bias, with very little
credentials to credit the writing. For example, posters were discussing how
Vince Carter played almost the whole season with an ankle injury, which caused
him to play a whole season in pain. There is no proof to this, because there is
no article stating that Vince Carter played a whole season in pain. No direct
quotes from management, players, coaches or Vince Carter himself. So why would
this be relevant to his Wikipedia page? As Royal & Kapila (2009) said
“accuracy of information is important.” This is not accuracy and should not be
posted onto Wikipedia! There requires a deep amount of knowledge about a
subject in order to prove that information is valid.
Unlike social media sites such as Twitter and
Facebook, you cannot get up-to-the minute information on Wikipedia. “The public opinion is always expanding and
changing,” Ruffolo (2013) and With social media sites
(such as those above) they update consistently with accurate information.
Wikipedia takes time for these updates to happen because they don’t want to
take a chance of it not being official. Although, Wikipedia is useful in getting this information it takes a them a couple of days to compute this into their system. As a Sport Management student, I would rather look at Twitter and Facebook for these updates because in sports you always want to be the first to know when you're favourite player is traded, signed, or even retires!!!
Overall, Wikipedia is a convenient and extremely
handy research tool that individuals from High School students to sport
management professors and media personnel can and should use as a starting
point to further investigation into a phenomenon.
References:
C Ruffolo (2013, May 31).
Wikipedia… Can it be trusted? [blog post]. Retrieved from http://newmediumnewmessage.wordpress.com
J Luciano. (2013, May 31).
“You must use at least five sources, and Wikipedia connot be one of them …”
[blog post]. Retrieved from http://jlucianoo.wordpress.com
Jensen, R. (2012). Military History on the
Electronic Frontier: Wikipedia Fights the War of 1812. Journal of
Military History. 76, 1. pp 1165-1182.
M Koudsi. (2013, May 31). The Source
Wikipedia [blog post]. Retrieved from http://mediasuperpower.blogspot.ca/
Royal, C. & Kapila, D. (2009). What's on Wikipedia, and What's Not . . . ?: Assessing Completeness of Information. Social Science Computer Review. 27, 1. pp 138-148.
Monday 27 May 2013
Wikipedia Every Students Dream Source
While doing this weeks readings I learned many new
things about crowdsourcing and Wikipedia. There were many things I didn't know
about it such as it being a crowdsourcing tool. I never would have thought of this because I was just using the site as a source of information that would take lots of time of researching. All I knew was that professors told students that they could not use it for assignments. When people ask me if (insert person's name) was born
in 1986 I usually tell them "one second let me go look on Wikipedia to see
if that information is true." Wikipedia has been my go to site for information about sports players careers and what teams they have played on before or what team drafted them into the league. Also using wikipedia I would look up my favourite music artist to see when he/she was going to have an album out and who is suppose to be on that album.
There were lots of great comments I got from fellow classmates. There were some parts of these comments that really stood out to me. @cour882 brought up "the fact that they do not welcome the common certified writer to post their views of the subject is disturbing." I would agree with her on this comment because like @DigitalAdBlog said in his comments it would be nice to use wikipedia as sources and without having certified writers this is not possible. This would make Wikipedia every students dream source for making assignment for school. Although this is not in place as of now, Wikipedia does give other solutions to this by having footnotes from where there information is from.
There were lots of great comments I got from fellow classmates. There were some parts of these comments that really stood out to me. @cour882 brought up "the fact that they do not welcome the common certified writer to post their views of the subject is disturbing." I would agree with her on this comment because like @DigitalAdBlog said in his comments it would be nice to use wikipedia as sources and without having certified writers this is not possible. This would make Wikipedia every students dream source for making assignment for school. Although this is not in place as of now, Wikipedia does give other solutions to this by having footnotes from where there information is from.
Thursday 23 May 2013
Wikipedia and the Use of Crowdsourcing
When
using sites like Yahoo, Google and Wikipedia, I use them for different things.
For instance, using Yahoo, I would look at there website to find out the news. For Google it would be for
there search engine. Wikipedia is used differently for me because of the
information it brings. If I were to search “2013” in Wikipedia it takes me to a
part of there site which would allow me to look at, films, music, television,
and events for 2013. It is a great way to find out information that normal
could take a site like Google a couple minutes of reading different websites to
find out. Wikipedia gives users the information with a link attached to it.
This shows that the Internet has evolved
into a great way to accomplish different aspects to obtain information through
different databases and a great way to get ideas. This can also be known as
crowdsourcing. With this, there are many benefits and drawbacks and for this
weeks blog I will talk about if the pros and cons change on the kind knowledge
given from crowdsourcing.
For now I will start with talking about the benefits of
crowdsourcing knowledge. The benefit of having a crowdsourcing website for
example Wikipedia is that it provides a great way of finding things that we may
not know. “Wikipedia is now the Web’s third most popular news and
information source, with more unique visitors than Yahoo News, MSNBC, AOL News,
and CNN (ComScore, 2006). Wikipedia’s English-language version doubled in size
in 2006 and now has more than 1 million articles. By this measure, it is almost
12 times larger than the print version of the Encyclopaedia Britannica.
It has more than 100,000 contributors writing in 200 languages (“Wiki
Principle,” 2006)(Royal. C and Kapila. D, 2009).” The reason that Wikipedia is
very useful is because it provides different outlooks into how they get the
information. Wikipedia provides users with personal information, achievements,
and other news depending on the person/thing you look up.
With sites
like Wikipedia there are many drawbacks. Jensen. R (2012) writes in his article
about Wikipedia fights the war of 1812 that “our main concern here, however, is
not with who uses Wikipedia, but with how its articles on military history get
written, using the “war of 1812” article as a case study. Wikipedia represents
a radical new way to write history: “crowdsourcing””. With that any person that
is interested in writing a column on someone’s Wikipedia page can edit and put
false information into it. This shows that “There are several unwarranted
premises underlying this claim. First, the authors of Wikinomics and ‘We-Think’
assume that all users who contribute content are (equally) creative and that
their motivations for contributing articulate the same expressive desire (Dijck.
J, and Nieborg. D, 2009).” Also with these websites even though they might be
very useful, you cannot use for academic sources!! Sorry students :(.
References
Royal, C. & Kapila, D. (2009). What's on Wikipedia, and What's Not . . . ?: Assessing Completeness of Information. Social Science Computer Review. 27, 1. pp 138-148.
Note: don't worry about the statistics and methodology in Royal & Kapila (skim it, this isn't a stats course). Focus on the introduction, discussion, and conclusion.
Jensen, R. (2012). Military History on the Electronic Frontier: Wikipedia Fights the War of 1812. Journal of Military History. 76, 1. pp 1165-1182
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Picture below courtesy of:http://www.businessesgrow.com/2011/08/31/the-top-five-crowdsourcing-mega-trends/
Wednesday 15 May 2013
Surveillance and Privacy in Social Networking
Hello and welcome to week two of my blog!!!
Today I will be talking about the surveillance and
privacy involved in sports VIA social networking and other technologies such as
phones.
“At
home, families sit together, texting and reading e-mail. At work executives
text during board meetings. We text (and shop and go on Facebook) during
classes and when we’re on dates Turkle, S (2012).” Technology has brought in a
new way of communicating and processing things that we would never have been
able to do 10 years ago. In sports reporters are using social networking and
phone applications to communicate, “breaking new” about player, and teams.
A great way for people to allow others to know this type of news is
Social Networking. There are many different types of social networks on the
internet/phones, which includes Facebook, Twitter, Tumbler, etc. Boyd, D. and Ellison, N. (2008) explains
to their readers “what makes social network sites unique is not that they
allow individuals to meet strangers, but rather that they enable users to
articulate and make visible their social networks.” For example Twitter is a
great social network site, which allows people to connect with each other by
following one another and being able to communicate with all different types of
people by using a simple hashtag (#). Although social networks may be a great
way to socialize with others it could also be very negative.
“Online social networking can have a touch of private
communication to it due to its situational and mundane character, but mediated
publics are obviously not private. This dilemma is, of course, a central part
of the discussion concerning surveillance and privacy issues, and it is
especially evident in connection with secondary uses of available information
at social networking sites Albrechtslund, A (2008).” These
sites allow people all over to see messages that have been sent to others.
Often sports reporters want to be the first to have news about players being
signed or traded. When reporters initially write something on twitter or other
social networking sites and they are reporting false information about a player
or coach it could ruin a players reputation, or make them feel unwanted on the
team they are playing for. For example in the past 2 years in the NBA there
have been rumors that Dwight Howard would be traded to Brooklyn Nets but
eventually he ended up getting traded to the Los Angeles Lakers. As a fan you
love to hear these rumors but in the long run you want to hear the right rumor
because it can affect a whole team and every player that is so called
“involved”.
Albrechtslund, A. (2008, March 3). Online Social Networking at Participatory Surveillance. Http://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/2142/1949#p3. Retrieved May 15, 2013, from http://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/2142/1949#p3
Boyd, D. M., & Ellison, N. B. (2008). Social Network Sites: Definition, History, and Scholarship. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 13(1), 210-230. doi: 10.1111/j.1083-6101.2007.00393.x
Turkle, S. (2012, April 21). The Flight From Conversation. The New York Times. Retrieved May 15, 2013, from http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/22/opinion/sunday/the-flight-from-conversation.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
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Tuesday 7 May 2013
New Beginnings
Good Morning or Good Afternoon!!
To all readers! I am very new to blogging but in
the past I have been to many blogging websites so hopefully everyone will enjoy
my blogs!
My name is Brandon Israelson, and I am currently
doing my third year of school at Brock University. I am studying Sport
Management, which requires some knowledge of sports. Being a Canadian many people
would think that my favorite sport would be hockey, but that is not the case
for me (sorry fellow Canadians!!). I am a huge basketball fanatic and could
pretty much tell someone which players are on what team. My favorite teams in
the National Basketball Association (NBA) are the Toronto Raptors, Los Angeles
Lakers, and Los Angeles Clippers. I have been to many games throughout the
years but one of my main goals is to visit every team’s stadium. So far I have
been to only 4 NBA stadiums, 26 more to go!! I am also a fan of baseball it has
been the sport that my family has followed for years. Although baseball is very
interesting for me, I can say that I do not follow it as much as I do for
basketball however I have been to more baseball stadiums than I have for
basketball including the old Yankee Stadium.
For this blog I choose the topic of Media, but my
main focus will be media in sports.
Media is everywhere in sports! They follow teams from city to city, broadcasting
games and write columns about each sports team. With media rumors are spread,
players are scrutinized, and egos are tested. One day a writer could be writing
that one teams front office is about to trade a player and the next day fans
find out that it was only a quick conversation between teams front office that
never meant much. With this blog I will look at different perspectives of how
media in sports is good and bad. With the NBA free agency coming up there are
many rumours of players getting traded or signing with a new team. There are
many big names in the NBA that are being talked about in rumors and in the blog
I will bring some of these topics up.
I look forward to keeping you all updated!
Brandon
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