Main Idea: People pay attention more to how information is portrayed, but not about the information itself.
Key terms:
Discontinuity: A distinct break in sequence in time
Universal Fabric: Another term that means universally known.
Contemporary: Living or occurring at the same time
Audible: The ability of being heard or for one to hear something
Human potentialities: The ability that individuals have of accomplishing a task that are often unrecognizable.
Human-interest stories: Often used in journalism. A feature story that discusses a person, or people, or a pet in an emotional way. Presents people and their problems, concerns, or achievements in a way that brings about interest, sympathy or motivation in the reader or viewer.
Human solidarity: Unity that produces or is based on unities of interests, objectives, standards and sympathies. It refers to ties in a society that bind people together as one.
Universal Scope: Used to describe how all individuals may view a situation or an event that has happened or is currently happening.
Summary: According to the article “The Mechanical bride”, the author states that people in today’s world take in information differently than they have in the past. Irrationalism in journalism is becoming intolerable for intelligent people and demand to be viewed as being in a higher society. Individuals now are influenced more by how the information is displayed but is not fully engulfed or does not take anything away from the information given. Part of this problem may be the shift in technology. You see people looking at their screens but in reality they’re looking at almost nothing. Individuals don’t read to learn, they read to just read and then retain none of the information that was displayed. Often times it leads to a misinterpretation of the information. The art of journalism is dying.
Commentary: The author does a very good job at being descriptive and you can tell that he is definitely passionate about this topic. His description on the art form of journalism is right on the nose on what is happening today with modern media. However, you can tell that this is just the intro. The author does not provide enough detailed information about the topic but does leave readers wanting to know more about the situation. Along with that, he doesn’t provide a clear and concise description of where he is going to be going in this article. Even after reading the article several times through, I still can’t seem to figure out the main idea. That can be positive and negative. It could mean that the author is trying to make the readers come up with their own interpretation and think outside the box. For those of us that strictly read for the sake of just completing an assignment, it makes it a bit complicated.
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