Explorations in Media (by DC3)

I have been reading, over the past couple of days, about Iran's complaint about the movie 300.  I find it curious that when Frank Miller wrote the graphic novel back in....1999 or so...not many people were up in arms over it (never translated? No Iranian-American cared about the graphic novel?). 
I also bet there's lots of Americans that don't know enough to associate the ancient Persians with modern Iran (at least some Americans didn't know until Iran brought it up).

A random point in the middle:
I read one article indicating that bootlegs of 300 were available in Iran.  Why mention this?  To possibly indicate that Iranians only knew about the movie through illicit means without actually saying it?
End Random point

300 is a movie. 300 is a work of fiction. 300 is big screen entertainment.  300 is not policy setting.  Are fact and fiction really that hard to separate with this movie?

What I really find interesting is that the material in 300 has been around for years in graphic novel format.  It wasn't until 300 became a movie that a really big deal was made about the story.  It seems, in this case, the movie is the more powerful format.  I wonder what I'm supposed to get from all this.

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Start off strong and end rambling into nowhere.  Good Stuff.

I love the Emerald Nuts ad with Robert Goulet "messing with your stuff."  Though at the end of the day, I'm still going to buy some Planters.

If somehow you've missed the ad: www.emeraldnuts.com

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When I first heard an episode of This Week in Media (around episode 10), I felt like it was a conversation that excluded the audience.  When Alex Lindsay would present a story, there was no "for those that don't know what we're talking about..."   It was an insider conversation that only the panelists were in on.  I stopped listening.

A month or so passes...

I saw a topic was talked about on TWiM that I was really interested in (of course now I don't remember what that was), so I thought I'd give TWiM another shot.  To my amazement, the conversation stopped for a moment and I heard "this is what this story is about."  I've been listening ever since (they've only disappointed me once since I started listening again). 

TWiM has a great panel of well informed experts on media.  I'm glad they decided to let the rest of us in.

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-rambling vagueness? You bet!

This is my first post. Hi.

I want to use this space to write about what I see in the media and various other things.  What qualifies me for such a task?  I have a bachelors of science in communications...and that's about it.

Do my opinions matter? No, of course not.  I just want to write about the media; it makes me happy.  Someday, everyone will experience my vox.  Everyone will read my voice.

Okay, maybe two people.  If I'm lucky.

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