Sports and All That Jazz.

pondersoftheworld — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 18:12:57 +0000

The RSS feed I chose from The New York Times gives a broad look on every aspect of sports. This feed, Sports, produces oodles of articles daily, too many for me to read every single one. The way in which the authors composed the articles are like I am listening to an intriguing sports report on television. The broad topics range from short reports on sporting events, biographies of athletes, deaths of famous competitors, and news of trades, returns, and scandals. At this time of the year most game summaries are on baseball, so the reports give information on who won the game and the inning-by-inning stats. Lately many articles have been on the subject of the 2008 Olympics and the athletes’ journeys. One in particular, “Women Jumping in as Elite Swim Coaches,” narrates how veteran Olympic female swimmers are now swim coaches for the 2008 Olympics. Recently, various authors composed articles on the life and death of Bobby Marcer, honoring his sporting and broadcasting achievements. Several pieces of writing were written about the possible return and trade of the recently retired quarterback, Brett Favre. In the piece, “Energized Church Confident of Return,” the left-handed hitter, Ryan Church, rejoins the New York Mets from the disabled list. Outrageously, one article notes the scandals of players being taken advantage of financially and the cheating of officials. Even though I liked being updated on all the news of the sports world, I will not keep this feed in my Reader.

Movies, Movies, Movies… Is that all?

pondersoftheworld — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 18:05:01 +0000

After browsing through the website of the New York Times, I found an RSS feed on movies. Following my subscription to this feed, I learned Movies is a great source of information on the Hollywood media. When I had 30 minutes at my disposal to read the subscription, instead of reading every single new post, I would skim and scan the headings and only read the articles that sounded familiar. The feed produces quite a few articles daily, on an average of ten. With ten articles produced daily, of course Movies had a collection of writers. The topics range from documentaries, movies reviews, television biographies, deaths and births, and financial and production news. On the side of financial news, “The Dark Knight Owns Midnight” is a one paragraph article providing information on the amount of money earned on the midnight release of the much anticipate movie, “The Dark Night”. A piece on the meeting of the Screen Actors Guild and CEOs to improve sound and dialogue is sticks out like a sour thumbs in the lists of articles with much more sensational topics. While some articles can bore a person to death, the movies reviews are quite intriguing and informative. The article, “Does Your Mother Know You Sing Abba Tunes”, is the assessment of the Broadway musical made movie, Mama Mia. With descriptive text, the author subtly bashes the movie, writing that after viewers recover from the music “hangover”, they realize just how bad the movie really was. However, some articles cover the births and deaths of future and past Hollywood legends. Angelina Jolie Gives Birth to Twins” informs the world that one of the most famous couples in the world had twins and informs the world how the news was given out. Sadly, this feed had some death news in its mist. The acclaimed actress from “Gone With the Wind”, Evelyn Keyes, is given the proper acknowledgement for her work while the readers are intrigued with the juicy scandals of the actress’s life. Giving new perspectives on the media, this feed is staying in my Reader.

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Sports and All That Jazz.

Movies, Movies, Movies… Is that all?