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Hello world,

If you come across this blog then you likely have found yourself very bored and exploring the very corners of the world wide web. I am starting this blog as a class project, but have always been into writing and keeping journals etc. Now, as we all know, the most recent media event was the 2013 Super Bowl in New Orleans. I happened to have to move to a new apartment ON SB Sunday, and was trying to catch bits and pieces of it from my neighbors' TVs and updates on my wonderful cellular device. I felt like I was the only person in the world who wasn't kicking back on my couch and eating chips and dip with friends as we all yell at the TV screen to images that cannot hear us. The whole concept of media coverage of the SB is something that we take for granted...we don't think about how amazing it is that such a large number of people could care enough about a game and get together and all be watching our TVs at the very same moment. I'm sure that the SB reaches an even larger crowd than does things like the Presidential Inauguration. It is a phenomenal event. But, being a female, of course I am going to have my own view and opinion about some of the commercials that companies use to advertise their products. As I went back onto YouTube to review the top commercials of the SB, I also came across many people chatting about the inappropriate content of a lot of them. Specifically the Mercedes commercial that appeared to focus more on the female washing their product than the car itself. As many have said about this commercial and many others, I think that they have taken "sex sells" just a little bit too far. This is just one small example of the many many commercials with sexual innuendo and images used to promote their product. It blows my mind that they can put something so provocative in a commercial at all, nonetheless put it on during the SUPERBOWL. This is being broadcasted to a larger audience throughout the US than ANY other media event!! Not only will the eyes of adults see these commercials, but the eyes of children. This is being shown in homes across America. America, The US, likes to think of itself as being Christian, "One Nation Under God"... but how can it claim to be such a thing when it promotes the objectification of women. Not to mention the influence from male producers is much greater due to the number of them outweighing the number of female producers that have any form of influence with the media.

I am also required to talk about all of my contact with media each day that I blog. This morning, the minute I woke, I rolled over and turned my phone's alarm off. Along with turning off my alarm, I checked facebook, my e mail, twitter and instagram. Without even thinking. This is what our society has become; good or bad, its the way things are. Aside from having constant contact with friends and family via text, colleagues and professors via e mail, and the entire world via twitter and facebook, I also have watched a couple YouTube videos today. I watched a documentary called "Supersize me". This documentary also brings to light another aspect of what America has become; overweight. To me, it is ironic that we put so much emphasis on being "beautiful", yet we have the largest percentage of overweight people out of every other country in the WORLD! I highly recommend you watch this documentary. I learned a lot of shocking statistics and facts that will forever make me see McDonald's and other fast food places very differently.

Today I also spent time on my laptop reading updates in the world of sports on Cynopsis Sports. Since I don't have the money to afford cable, being a student living by myself, I have to rely heavily on the internet to get information on weather, news, and sporting events. I would be lost without internet and my phone!!