More than what meets the eye

Since being in a class about the media I find myself seeing only the negative aspects of the media. I decided I would mix it up for this post. I was reminded that there are some uplifting things that media puts out there for us to see. Sometimes it just takes a little effort to find the good.
If you want to see the positive check out these two links.

http://arkansasvarsity.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=992976

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kt7w8hV90SI

I do find it interesting that the majority of positive stories have sports and athletics at the heart of them. The first link is about a high school football player that does something beyond his age. The second is one of my favorite portrayals a fathers willingness to help his child achieve his dream. I think that these clips show that there is more to sports than what we typically think.

The voice of the people

So I have some beef with Facebook and Twitter. Since the invention of theses social networking cites, people all of the sudden believe that everyone else cares so much that they are doing their laundry or are sleeping. Now my beef isn't necesarily with peoples daily habits but rather with peoples daily opinions that they feel they must post. In particular, last Saturday after the loss to FSU several so called BYU "fans" (more like fair-weather-fans) posted their thoughts on the BYU loss. Among the posts I found comments like, "I am glad that BYU was humbled" or "I am finding a new team". Really?!!! Are they serious?!!! I don't know of any other team in the country that has so called fans that would want their team to be humbled. What is that all about?
I love also how celebrities twitter all the time and it becomes headline news! Who cares what T.O. thinks about Mariah Carey! I just think that publically posting your daily routine and random thoughts brings out a lot of the stupid in Americans.
Now you might think this post ironic becuase it is on a social networking cite. I think that Blogs are a little bit better because the people that actually write them spend time doing a little thing called thinking which seems to be absent amongst avid twitter-ers and facebook-ers.

Not so Gleefull!!!

Today was a sad day for me. I came to the realization that a TV program that my wife and I have been waiting to see, is a colossal disappointment. I am talking about the new TV series "Glee". This is a show that was supposed to be about a down and out glee club at a high school that spontaneously got an inspired man to lead a group of high school misfits from the depth of the unpopular to the heights of success. It sounds like it would be a good family comedy show. To my surprise, I have not gotten any of that in the first two episodes of the series. Instead, the messages I have gotten are "I want to sex you up", "Push it , Push it real good" accompanied with demonstrations of several portrayals of sexual positions, and last, but not least, ever inspirational TV series about misfit high school students needs a scene with the high school cheer team in nothing but swimsuits washing cars. I have never been so disappointed in a TV show before. Episode 3 will be my last episode. I am tired of looking at my wife and saying, " did they really just put that in there and get away with it?"

So like most men my Saturday is summed up with me being hypnotized by any and every college football game that it shown on TV and my wife wishing Sunday would come sooner. I love BYU football. I remember my freshman year when BYU was not very good at all. I think we lost to Boise State that year by like 40 points. BYU used to have the longest streak of games played without being shutout but that ended my freshman year and I was at that game. So I have been through a lot with the Cougars. Something I noticed today, now that BYU is doing an Amazing job, is that I love the media. I eat it up. I watch everything and anything that talks about BYU football. When media tells me something that I want to hear I cant get enough of it, but when I don't want to hear about one of my teams losing I dislike the media so much. It is a weird relationship that I have with the media. You can't live with it and you can't live without it.