This is from my Mass Communications exam on print media, including the internet. I went to town. I did not answer the question at all. I scored 20/25 points on this question for witty commentary.
I amaze myself sometimes.
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This is from my Mass Communications exam on print media, including the internet. I went to town. I did not answer the question at all. I scored 20/25 points on this question for witty commentary.
I amaze myself sometimes.
I got into a Twitter argument with two people today. Well, technically I got into an argument with one person and a name-calling session with the other. It all started when I tweeted about Glenn Beck’s spelling mistake. My exact tweet was:
Me: I kind of hope there was some cameraman on Glenn Beck going, “no!! that’s not how you spell that!!”
Which, to normal people, isn’t a bad comment, just a playful joust. Well, the first argument came shortly after.
UserA: @KatieEber who cares if he can’t spell. Half of America can’t spell
The content was centered more around the politics of punditry and what people with the outreach that Beck has should and shouldn’t do on air.
Well, for some reason, that person felt the need to call for backup. I’m just overwhelming, I guess.
I got bombarded with questions from another user, mostly about health care reform. I think my favorite response to one of my tweets was:
UserB: @KatieEber Aha, so you’re a communist…I mean Democrat.
I proceeded to explain that yes, ideologically I am a liberal. However, I am not a Democrat. On my voter registration, it clearly says “Independent” under party affiliation. Apparently this was too much to understand. It got to the point where I needed to get to my Shakespeare and decided to dismiss the argument with something that would make me laugh and make this user extremely annoyed.
UserB: @KatieEber You seem to be forgetting who truly runs this country. Does this ring a bell? “WE THE PEOPLE”
Me: @UserB Oh, okay then.
Me: @UserB CONSTITUTION FIGHT!!!
Me: @UserB DON’T TREAD ON ME
Me: @UserB LIVE FREE OR DIE
Me: @UserB FOUR SCORE AND SEVEN YEARS AGO
This didn’t work, and I started to become suspicious that one of these users was actually just Howard Dean throwing a curveball at a supporter of Health Care Reform. When UserB started with the name-calling, I decided that it probably wasn’t Howard Dean, but I still had my suspicions. I was growing weary of the argument, so I decided to go directly to the source and plead with the person in charge of training these numbskulls.
Hey, @glennbeck! Call your watchdogs @UserA and @UserB off! They’re barking so loud I can’t get anything done!
