By Tom Bracken
This is now my third blog ever and first “MDIA1002 Tutorial Post” as we say in the industry. What follows is my concise and brutally honest assessment of myself as a media user/writer/time manager/(if this gets posted where it needs to be) simultaneous categoriser and tagger.
I read the newspaper consistently every day. The sport section, however, is the first and main point of call. I will (and often force myself) read through the front section so I know what’s going down outside of the NRL. I may read half an article and move on if it isn’t too enthralling. I like the letters and envisage myself as one day becoming a 72 year old public transport patron who continuously writes conservative letters to the Herald complaining about long hair/young people (only 3 will ever be published). I am more of an FM radio man but thanks to Mum I listen to 702 Radio National in the morning and if I’m driving I may occasionally catch PM. For me watching televised news is more of a coincidental occurrence. I don’t watch it religiously but if I sit down to watch TV and it is on I will watch everything except the weather.
When writing I tend to use an online thesaurus (helps complete any HSC English essay) and dictionaries come into the equation when I have no clue what something means and I feel it is important that I do. And finally, as for dead-lines I tend not to miss them.
So that’s all I’ve got to say on the matter
End communication
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