Wednesday, January 30, 2008

Adventures in live blogging -- "His Girl Friday"

Here it is: My first try at live blogging.

1:10 -- It's in black and white.

1:15 -- Wally is way too dedicated to his job.

1:18 -- Good job, Wally. Way to make things up to try to win Hildy back. Hildy, on the other hand, has decided to give up the journalist life.

1:21 -- So far, I have gathered that Wally is unable to seperate his personal and professional life, while Hildy is all too able to seperate the two in that she no longer wants a professional life.

1:25 -- Besides it being in black and white, one thing that dates this film is the fact that the characters are smoking all the time.

1:38 -- And we're done for the day.

Friday, January 25, 2008

What I want to learn this semester

To be honest, I'm not entirely sure what this course entails. While I am not really excited about learning the 18th-century magazine style, I am anxious to learn how the world of journalism developed from that into what it is today.