tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-76748188727692303582024-03-13T10:55:42.998-06:00Mark Reports, You DecideUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger40125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674818872769230358.post-54471942044601733752009-04-07T19:17:00.009-06:002009-04-07T19:28:41.874-06:00Beverly Hamilton Oral History<div align="center"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;"><strong>Beverly Riche Hamilton</strong></span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;">An Oral History</span></div><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Zo_WoIaiKFA/Sdv9DoKP0GI/AAAAAAAAAXE/U10ABus5kkM/s1600-h/grandma.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5322125623430205538" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 240px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Zo_WoIaiKFA/Sdv9DoKP0GI/AAAAAAAAAXE/U10ABus5kkM/s320/grandma.jpg" border="0" /></a> <p align="center"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Zo_WoIaiKFA/Sdv8aM3ylMI/AAAAAAAAAW8/g2Bydtgwr4g/s1600-h/grandma.jpg"></a></p><p><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><strong>Mark Hamilton: What is your name?</strong><br />Beverly Riche Hamilton: Beverly Hamilton. Though I was Beverly Riche when I was born. </span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br /><strong>MH: And when were you born?</strong><br />BH: [August 31,] 1925<br /><br /><strong>MH: And where were you born?</strong><br />BH: Salt Lake City<br /><br /><strong>MH: And is that where you lived as a child?</strong><br />BH: Um, 'till I was three-and-a-half.<br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><strong>MH: And where did you move when you were three-and-a-half?<br /></strong>BH: Well, my father was transferred to Phoenix, Arizona, and we lived there for seven years.</span><br /></span><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;"></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br /><strong>MH: And then from there, did you move somewhere else?</strong><br />BH: Yeah, from there he was transferred back to Salt Lake, and we were there eleven months, and then he was transferred to Riverside, California. And then, after four years, he was transferred to Sacramento. And that's where his home office was, so that's where we stayed.</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><strong>MH: OK.</strong><br />BH: Except we moved out to Carmichael, about ten miles from Sacramento onto a fruit ranch.</span></p><p><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><strong>MH: What's your earliest memory of media consumption? Like your first experience using radio, or anything like that?</strong><br />BH: Um, when I lived in Phoenix, I can remember sitting in front of the radio shelling peas for my mother. And that would have been when I was about maybe seven or eight.<br /><br /><strong>MH: OK, did you primarily use the radio for music, or did you use it for news, or programs?</strong><br />BH: Well, at that time, I think we used it mainly for programs and the news. But we moved to Riverside, and there were newsboys on the streets downtown, and if there was something exciting like another revolution in South America, they'd go through the residential areas yelling "Extra! Extra! Read all about it!" And, uh, if homeowners wanted to do that, they'd go out and buy the paper from them.<br /><br /><strong>MH: What do you remember about how you and your family used the media in your youth? You said that you used the radio primarily for programs and news, but also related, I guess to the newspaper and things like that, how big of media consumers would you say you were?<br /></strong>BH: Uh, I think we were kind of like most people--kind of, uh, minimal. Uh, we would listen and you know, to get excited about those extras, but, uh, I remember when Joe Lewis won the world championship in boxing. We were listening to it on the radio, and then we heard the newsboys coming, you know, later to, you know, “read all about it” that “Lewis knocks out Schmeling” or whatever, you know.<br /><br /><strong>MH: Right.</strong><br />BH: So, uh, and we kids, when we lived in Phoenix, uh, listened to afternoon programs like “Jack Armstrong, the All-American Boy” and “Little Orphan Annie” and I can’t remember what the other ones were. And also, later, when we lived in Riverside, we would listen to Soap Operas on the radio.<br /><br /><strong>MH: OK. And, one of the most popular programs back then was, um “The Lone Ranger”…</strong></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">BH: Oh yeah! We listened to that! </span><br /></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br /><strong>MH: OK.</strong><br />BH: And uh, and “The Shadow!”<br /><br /><strong>MH: Yeah! “The Shadow knows…” I used to listen to “The Shadow.”</strong><br />BH: Did ya’? [Laughs]<br /><br /><strong>MH: Yeah. Just recordings of it. Um…</strong><br />BH: Uh-huh. Oh, we used to listen to “Roy Rogers”, and uh, “Tom Mix.” “Tom Mix” was a Hollywood cowboy. And, uh, it was exciting, and you know, we’d listen to his program, and then I got to see him in a rodeo in Phoenix!<br /><br /><strong>MH: Wow.</strong><br />BH: Yeah.<br /><br /><strong>MH: OK, so obviously the radio was a big part of life when you were younger…</strong><br />BH: Right.<br /><br /><strong>MH: …but what do you remember hearing or seeing about a television for the first time?<br /></strong>BH: I didn’t…well, we’d heard from the time I was in Junior High School, we’d heard, um, television was coming, and you know, we were just enthralled to think that we could see pictures, you know? And uh, but I did not see a television until after I came home from my mission, which was at the end of 1949. And I came home in December, and I went to visit my relatives and friends in Riverside, in, uh, late March [1950], and that’s when I saw my first television set.<br /><br /><strong>MH: And it was black and white back then, right?</strong><br />BH: Oh yes! Of course. Uh-huh.<br /><br /><strong>MH: And when did you or your family first own a television?</strong><br />BH: I don’t remember when my parents got one…it must have been after I was married, and I was married in June of 1950, and we—my husband and I—we didn’t want one, because we saw what a time-waster it was, you know? And my aunt, they had one in Salt Lake. And so, we resisted getting a television set until when we lived in Connecticut, after, you know, after we had four or five children, maybe six, one of our neighbor couples adopted Steve, my fourth son, as a grandchild—they’d never had children, and they just adored him. And they felt so sorry for him because we didn’t have a TV, that they gave us a used one. And that’s when we got our first television set. And that would have been, uh, oh about, 19…uh…62.<br /><br /><strong>MH: Right, I was going to say, my dad was born in Connecticut, so it must have been…</strong><br />BH: Right.<br /><br /><strong>MH: …around that time, so…</strong><br />BH: So we had one, then, for a few years, even after we moved to New York State. The one we had died, so we got another used one. But then we decided…actually, our children requested that we not use it because they wanted to do better in school, and so we took a family vote, so only one child voted to keep the TV.<br /><br /><strong>MH: [Laughs]</strong><br />BH: And so, we didn’t throw it out, we just turned it off. And we raised our children mostly without television. And they would come home from neighbors and, uh, you know, our friends where they’d seen TV, and say “Boy, I’m so glad we don’t have TV.” And this was in uh, what? 1960s-70s. And it was mild in those days.<br /><br /><strong>MH: Right. Wow. Um, just a question out of curiosity…um, most generations have some kind of “defining moment,” you know, like a September 11th, or the Kennedy assassination, or things like that. Um, what is a big news event that you remember—or a few—and how did you learn about them? Was it on TV, or was it on a radio…?</strong><br />BH: Well, the biggest one in my lifetime was Pearl Harbor day, December [7th] 1941. And it was a Sunday. And I’m sure that was deliberate by the Japanese, you know, to bomb on Sunday, when people wouldn’t be that concerned about the world…they’d be worshipping instead. And we were at Stake Conference, and it was between sessions of conference they had in the morning and then in the afternoon. So while we were eating our lunch between sessions, uh, someone had their car radio on, I guess, and heard the announcement. And, so, we were really worried about our mother, because she was home with the little children, and we were feeling for her, that she’d be terrified, you know, and she hadn’t had the radio on, fortunately, so she didn’t know ‘till we got home and told her. But that affected our lives forever, I think. An incident like the twin towers has affected people in your generation.<br /><br /><strong>MH: Right. Um, you mentioned that later, people kind of started making the transition from radio to TV, and so…</strong><br />BH: Uh-huh. It was a gradual thing, as people could afford it, I guess.<br /><br /><strong>MH: Right, and were there any major events like a “pearl harbor” that you ended up finding out on TV instead of radio later in life?</strong><br />BH: Uh, yeah. The twin towers. Your Aunt Chris called me and said “Are you watching TV?” And I didn’t watch it during the daytime, so I uh…she said “Turn it on!” And that’s when I learned about them.<br /><br /><strong>MH: OK. And we’ve talked a little bit about watching the transition kind of from newspapers and radio to television and now the Internet and things like that. Um, how has media changed in your lifetime?</strong><br />BH: Well, it’s changed from my being not aware of it as a child, you know, from newspapers to—look, you take computers, you know? Uh, the information you can acquire…like, we had, uh, Encyclopedia Americana, used it extensively. Our kids used it with their schoolwork—now they just go on the Internet. And they probably learn a lot more, a lot faster than we did with encyclopedias. Although I still like the encyclopedias.<br /><br /><strong>MH: Right.</strong><br />BH: Um, the thing that has amazed me is, that my mother who was born in 1903 went from being in an orchestra, in the orchestra pit at silent movies to producing TV programs in the Church in Sacramento.<br /><br /><strong>MH: Wow.</strong><br />BH: And so that was a tremendous change in her lifetime, you know. But she didn’t live to see the computers and all they have accomplished, but she did live that spread of years. That was really interesting to me.<br /><br /><strong>MH: Yeah. Um, is there something that you wish—you mentioned that youth today use the Internet instead of encyclopedias and things like that—uh, is there something that you wish the youth of today knew about the media in your lifetime?</strong><br />BH: Uhhh…it would be nice if they knew what I know, you know, because I’ve lived it. But I don’t think they would comprehend it, uh, because they don’t comprehend other things that have transpired in my lifetime like the Depression, and you know, and the war, I mean—and, and I understand that because, when I was—I was born in ’25…and the [first] world war ended in 1919, and by the time I was old enough to know anything about it, that was ancient history to me. And I find that World War II, while it’s still very fresh in my mind, is ancient history to people today. Young people especially. But even my own children’s generation, it’s ancient history.<br /><br /><strong>MH: Um, do you have any final thoughts, maybe about your media use…um, how it has changed over time?</strong><br />BH: Well, partly it’s changed because I have more time for it now than when I was raising my family. But, uh, you haven’t mentioned magazines, and they have had an influence too in my life, and in the lives of people in my era, and in your era too, I think. And we have a lot more magazines to choose from, and so I think we have to be careful what we choose. And I’m really grateful for the Church publications, that I’m sure my parents used, but I wasn’t aware of, except for the Children’s Friend.<br /><br /><strong>MH: Right.</strong><br />BH: And so I think we all need to appreciate the generations before us, but I don’t think we can fully understand them, because we didn’t live them.<br /><br /><strong>MH: OK. Um, where do you see the media moving, um, in the future—in the next few years what do you think is the future of the media and our media consumption?</strong><br />BH: Um, you know what, I haven’t thought of that. Elliott—uh, your Uncle Elliott just showed me just a little tiny instrument that he plugs into his computer, and I don’t know what it is, but it’s amazing. And I think, chips are getting smaller and smaller—I don’t see how they can get much smaller—but uh, my concern is that there’s, uh, too much pornography—there shouldn’t be any. But it’s so easily available on the Internet…and other things that aren’t good for us. So I think we have to—as parents and grandparents—be very, uh, sure that we’re aware of what the children are watching, and put blocks on. And some people will say “Well, they’re gonna’ see it anyway…” Well, what we see today is worse than what was “burlesque” when I was growing up. And we didn’t have to see burlesque to know that it wasn’t good for us to watch, and it wasn’t available to children either…you had to go to a burlesque show to see it.<br /><br /><strong>MH: Right.</strong><br />BH: Uh-huh. Yeah, you had to travel, yeah.<br /><br /><strong>MH: So, kind of a clarifying question, I guess…you mentioned that Elliott plugged something into his computer. Was it a music player?</strong><br />BH: No…I’ll let him tell you…he’s sitting right here.<br /><br /><strong>MH: OK.</strong><br />Elliott Hamilton: Hi. It’s just a flash drive.<br /><br /><strong>MH: Oh, OK.</strong><br />EH: Yeah, where, where I have, you know, my files backed up on it that—uh, document files as well as some pictures that I’ve taken, you know, as a wedding photographer.<br /><br /><strong>MH: OK.</strong></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">EH: So I was just talking about a flash drive. </span><br /></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br /><strong>MH: Alright, thanks. I was just trying to clarify for the purposes of this interview.</strong></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">EH: Yeah, OK…here’s grandma again. </span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br /><strong>MH: OK, thanks.</strong><br />BH: You can see, uh, how computer literate I am.<br /><br /><strong>MH: [Laughs] No, that’s fine. Um, do you have any other final thoughts or things that you want to say?</strong><br />BH: Uhhh…I can’t think of any. I think, uh, the computer is marvelous, uh, I don’t understand it, but I don’t understand electricity either, but I’ve been happy to use it, you know? But I think it has great potential for, you know, things like Elliott’s mentioning. And it amazes me that a TV program can come up on the computer screen, or the pictures like he was telling you that he takes, he can put on that screen, and it’s really amazing to me. And I think it’s a wonderful tool, we just have to, like all tools, use it wisely.</span><br /><br /></p></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674818872769230358.post-45169779003635908292008-11-10T12:05:00.004-07:002008-11-10T12:17:13.043-07:00Internship Report, Week(s) 9-10<strong>Intern Name:</strong> Mark Hamilton<br /><strong>Internship Site:</strong> KSL Newsradio 102.7 FM and 1160 AM<br /><strong>Emphasis:</strong> Broadcast Journalism<br /><strong>Semester and Section:</strong> Fall 2008, Section 001<br /><strong>Week Number:</strong> 9-10<br /><strong>Number of Hours This Week:</strong> 45<br /><br /><strong>Week 9-10 Report:<br /></strong><br />When I went to write the report for week 10, I realized I never wrote a week 9 report. Sorry about that! I’ll try to re-cap both weeks…<br /><br />So, after I was offered the position working BYU’s basketball season too, things started changing. All of a sudden, I was “in the loop” about planning and preparation for games. I started getting schedules, getting timing rundowns for the show, etc.<br /><br />Last week was much like the others have been, since the basketball season hadn’t actually started yet. But then this week was crazy! I did all of my normal football-related duties, but added in a basketball game. That was crazy, because we had to use a whole different studio upstairs in the Triad Center. We had to use that studio, because this pre-season exhibition game was not broadcast on KSL Newsradio—it was only on ksl.com. In addition to the change of venue, it was interesting adapting to only having two people doing the work of four. Normally for football, there are four of us working to cut audio, get ready for half-time shows, etc…but for basketball, we’re basically on our own.<br /><br />My responsibilities for basketball include—but are not limited to—updating the score on the website for people following the game from Iraq, or wherever, cutting highlight audio during the game, cutting post-game interview audio, and rolling a recording of the whole game for the podcast.<br /><br />The guy I’m working with did what I was doing last year, and he is now a full-time employee of KSL. He showed me everything I needed to do, and I did my best to go above and beyond what he told me. Really, an offer of a “real” position at KSL would be great, so I am doing everything I can to secure one. One example of what I did was get highlight audio prepared from the first half in time for him to use it in the halftime show. He was extremely grateful for it, since he didn’t even expect it.<br /><br />Basically, I’m learning that you have to do whatever it takes to get what you want in this industry—something that should help me next week, when I have two basketball games AND a football game, and I will have to drive to KSL SIX times in one week.<br /><br />Things are going great though! I love what I’m doing!<br /><br />Thanks,<br />MarkUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674818872769230358.post-30197052331852741192008-11-02T16:13:00.001-07:002008-11-02T16:15:39.962-07:00Increased Interconnectedness Suppresses the Spiritual<strong>Media and World Religions Midterm</strong><br /><strong>Question 6</strong><br /><br /><strong>Discuss the interconnected nature of our lifeworld. What is the impact of this interconnectedness on our spirituality?</strong><br /> As the world grows more and more interconnected, mankind seems to simultaneously be losing its connection with the divine. In the earliest times of civilization, people seemed to focus their time and attention on religious matters. In fact, it is difficult to completely divorce the divine from daily life during much of the earth’s history. Entire religious groups intentionally separated themselves from “corrupting” influences and society, and established their own belief systems where they lived in isolation, cut off from the world. These people were often viewed as religious zealots. We think of them as monks, reformers, Puritans, the Amish, and others. Often, these monks would sacrifice all their earthly possessions in order to grow closer to the divine. Their entire focus was their personal spirituality.<br /> Conversely, in these so-called “modern times,” mankind has become so busy and distracted, that we have distanced ourselves from the divine. This process has been so gradual that most people seem to have not noticed, like a frog you place in a pot in which you gradually increase the heat. An ever-more interconnected world inevitably leads to the stifling of originality. An ever-more interconnected world is an ever-more homogenized world, as weaker practices and cultures are forced to adapt to the whole. In a setting such as this, the spiritual has become marginalized, and in some places ceases to exist altogether.<br /> It has been said that the human mind is like a stage where only one actor can be performing at a time. This means that in our frantic attempts to simplify our lives with invention and innovation, our lives have become so cluttered with “necessity” that other, former, and arguably more important actors cannot break through the din for their chance to perform. Deity has taken a backseat to politics, the economy, entertainment, professions, and leisure. Religion and spirituality was once seen as as much of a necessity as anything temporal. These times have passed for all but the select few groups we mentioned earlier. Indeed, it requires great effort to maintain the spiritual aspects of our lives, and our society in a world where doing so has become looked down upon, and is no longer touted as honorable by at least a vocal minority who would seek to stamp out spiritual practices altogether.<br /> It is evident that increased interconnectedness suppresses the spiritual.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674818872769230358.post-32973652673385229742008-11-02T16:11:00.001-07:002008-11-02T16:13:17.250-07:00Religion's Survival in a Mediated World<p><strong>Media and World Religions Midterm<br />Question 5</strong></p><p><strong>Present media tends to be more visual. How is the visual interpreted by religions? What do you forecast for major changes in visual media and how will that affect religious practice?</strong><br /> The visual nature of today’s media dictates adaptation for survival of religious practices as we know them. Increased media exposure makes sacred things less sacred. The term “sacred” could practically be synonymous with “scarce.” The very nature of the sacred thing, practice, location, etc. is almost tied to its scarcity. The more people who have access to something or somewhere, the less sacred it becomes. In an ever-increasingly visual world, more people have access to more things than ever in the world’s history. Now, things that were once sacred rites or practices are now fodder for tourists, spectators, and TV Producers. The cathedrals, mosques and synagogues of the world have been converted into tourism hotspots for architectural or historical junkies.<br /> I suppose it was inevitable. The predominant mediated religion is Christianity, and Christian structure dictates communication. In Christian tradition, a single person or limited group of people has control over information, and has to disseminate this information to their adherents. This source takes different forms, whether it be the Pope, a prophet, a leader, etc. Indeed, the centralized nature of Christian religions necessitates this system of dissemination of information. Within the sects of Christian religions, congregations tend to be as close to uniform as possible in their practices and teachings. This cohesiveness is the strength of the organized religion. But religion’s dependence on visual media could prove its undoing, if it goes unregulated.<br /> So-called “televangelists” got their name from the showmanship of their profession. In the Book of Mormon, we read why televangelists cheapen the very faith they seek to build: “…if there be no faith among the children of men God can do no miracle among them; wherefore, he showed not himself until after their faith…And neither at any time hat any wrought miracles until after their faith; wherefore they first believed in the Son of God.” (Ether 12:12, 18)<br /> Those religions which seek to use the media without being used by the media are those religions who succeed in an ever-mediated environment. Religions like The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, who embrace every new medium to share their basic tenets with the world, without divulging the sacredness of their rites by splashing it across computer and TV screens. This allows for true faith to exist where other religions have consciously or subconsciously “damned” their own progress.<br /> Indeed, one might explain that the very reason The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints had to be restored when it was is because of the inevitability of the mediated world not long after. If Joseph Smith had seen God the Father and Jesus Christ in 2008 instead of 1820, the world would demand proof, and he would be publicly decried and largely ignored…his efforts would have been in vain. “Seeing is believing” is really a phrase that can only describe our most recent history. Because Joseph Smith had no “tangible” evidence of his claims, the people of his time had to genuinely believe in the teachings, instead of believing in the miracles alone.<br /> One might argue that ALL organized religions depended on an unmediated world to establish themselves and expand. Would the world accept the Islamic religion if someone named Muhammed claimed today that he had been visited and instructed by an angel? And what of polytheistic religions such as Hindu? The simple fact of the matter is that these religions exist today because they were conceived in an unmediated world.<br /> That being said, the religions exist. The LDS Church enjoys one of the fastest growth rates at a time when church attendance worldwide is down, largely because they have embraced television, the Internet, Blogs, etc. and used them without being used by them. Today, they—especially Christian religions—must adapt to an ever visual world in order to continue to thrive and grow.</p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674818872769230358.post-50563296280372343152008-11-02T16:03:00.001-07:002008-11-02T16:05:56.318-07:00Media and Religion<strong>Media and World Religions Midterm</strong><br /><strong>Question 2:</strong><br /><br /><strong>Comment on specific interaction between media and religion by providing an example from the media.</strong><br /><strong></strong><br /> “The media”, as we traditionally think of it, sets out to explain the inexplicable, to frame the spectacle, and give it meaning. As a viewer of a news program or the reader of a newspaper, would you care about the news at all if it didn’t have some kind of application to you, or—worse yet—didn’t even make sense?<br /> To much of the world, the recent “spectacle” of the raids on the FLDS polygamist compound in Texas were inexplicable. Inexplicable, because the world could not relate to the polygamist culture. Inexplicable, because the world could not abide by taking children from their loving parents. Inexplicable, because if polygamy is illegal, how had this gone on for so long and on such a scale?<br /> In this case, the polygamist leaders originally denied the media access to their compound, fearing their way of life would be further threatened. They soon realized, however, that they needed the media to plead their case. That is when you saw teary-eyed mothers begging for their children back. The impact of that visual was enough to sway almost all public opinion in their favor.<br /> The media destroys religion, but religion needs the media.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674818872769230358.post-20385672388833255482008-11-02T15:58:00.002-07:002008-11-02T16:03:05.695-07:00Thought and Action<strong>Media and World Religions, Midterm</strong><br /><strong>Question 1:</strong><br /><br /><strong>Describe and comment on the relationship between thought and action.</strong><br /><br /> Thought and action are inextricably related. In fact, even sayings and phrases can be attributed to mankind’s recognition of this universal truth. In the Book of Mormon, we read “…if ye do not watch yourselves , and your thoughts, and your words, and your deeds…even unto the end of your lives, ye must perish.” (Mosiah 4:30) This warning is reflected in a common phrase “think before you speak” which brings to mind the many times that you, or someone you know has regretted the things they said—things they probably WOULDN’T have said if they had thought about the consequences.<br /> In this season of political turmoil, political slips of the tongue—or gaffes—seem to highlight the headlines in our media. While much of political discourse is premeditated and carefully planned, the things that seem to have the greatest effect on potential voters are the unscripted, unrehearsed things that slip out. Consider the now-famous statement by Governor Sarah Palin that you can see Russia from her home state of Alaska. This single statement, though initially innocuous, has evolved into oft-repeated versions of her statement that have lost the original meaning. Versions such as “I can see Russia from my porch” permeate the media more than any actual statement that Palin has said. In today’s hyper-active mediated world, it has become almost impossible to avoid such misinterpretations of even harmless statements. Indeed, the permeation of the media into the lives of public figures has created an unattainable ideal for them…for who, ever, is flawless part of the time, to say nothing of all the time.<br /> Jean Gebser outlined five stages of consciousness that do much to help us understand the evolving societal standard of the relationship between thought and action. In the first—or archaic—stage, mankind is barely aware of their communal existence. In this setting, it was often every-man-for-himself, and any sense of thought before action would have been minimal. In the quest for survival, actions were often as instinctive as anything. In the second—or magic—stage, a sense of community begins to emerge, and relationships are unavoidably formed. Society is characterized by superstition and magic like voo-doo. These beliefs are reflective of the thought that their actions had begun to have consequences. Thus, you would do or not do certain things to get or avoid the result. In the mythic stage, the concept of “I” begins to emerge. You start to see divisions in society, and people’s thoughts about possibilities even beyond the laws of nature begin to dictate their actions. In the perspectival stage, individuals are beholden to a rational or mental perspective. In this stage, every action is seen as having an “equal and opposite” reaction. This logical state of consciousness is where we most fully see ourselves at this time. If I do this, then this will happen. It is the foundation for every law-based society. The very functioning of the legal system is predicated on the fact that there are consequences for our actions. In fact, we make distinctions between pre-meditated crimes and crimes of passion. Pre-meditated crimes indicate thought before action, a weighing of possible consequences, and a decision to commit the crime anyway. These pre-meditated crimes bring harsher punishments, as a logical person would expect. The final stage of consciousness is the integral stage. In this stage, people begin to see all parts at once. The art equivalent of this concept is cubism—the most famous cubism artist was Picasso, and his art is characterized by seeing all sides of an object or person simultaneously on a two-dimensional plain. Our “modern” world seems to be moving toward this integral stage, and examples abound. To return to the example of the legal system, in this stage it becomes more than a matter of what is logical. If someone has committed a crime, a logical society would say that they should be punished. An integral society might say that his rights—to life, for example—supersede the punishment affixed.<br /> So, while the evolution of the relationship between thought and action has evolved in meaning over time, the relationship between thought and action is undeniable.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674818872769230358.post-83398603412025410452008-10-27T14:06:00.003-06:002008-10-27T14:11:02.193-06:00Internship Report, Week 8<div align="left"><strong>Intern Name:</strong> Mark Hamilton</div><div align="left"><strong>Internship Site:</strong> KSL Newsradio 102.7 FM and 1160 AM</div><div align="left"><strong>Emphasis:</strong> Broadcast Journalism</div><div align="left"><strong>Semester and Section:</strong> Fall 2008, Section 001</div><div align="left"><strong>Week Number:</strong> 8</div><div align="left"><strong>Number of Hours This Week:</strong> 21</div><div align="left"> </div><div align="left"><strong>Week 8 Report:</strong></div><div align="left">I felt like I shared in BYU’s victory this week, because almost everything seemed to go right.</div><div align="left"><br />First, we have been up in the air about this whole car thing, and we knew we needed one before winter hit. Thus far we had been lucky, but we felt like we were living on borrowed time. We kept paying that we would get the right car at the right time. Things had gone on so long that we figured maybe we weren’t supposed to get a car yet, and that maybe I’d be fine with just the old one we had, since we had already made it this far.</div><div align="left"><br />Well, Wednesday at my internship, Greg Wrubell started talking to me about the upcoming BYU Basketball season, and how they needed to find someone to work for them through the end of March. He started adding up the hours, and it only ended up being about 90. He said he would love to get an intern to do the job, since they wouldn’t have to pay them, and asked if I had any friends. I told him that I didn’t think 90 hours was enough to count as a 4 credit-hour internship, and that I didn’t think anyone would be willing to come up to Salt Lake for a 1 credit-hour internship during the school year. He agreed, and that’s when I suggested they could hire me to do the job, since it is essentially what I have already been doing, and they wouldn’t have to train me further. He loved the idea, and got on the phone with the powers that be. He then offered me the job for $75 a game, or about $18 an hour.</div><div align="left"><br />So, starting next week-ish, I will be an “official” employee of KSL Newsradio.</div><div align="left"><br />It’s by no means full-time employment, but it’s exactly the kind of “in” I was looking for. In fact, I will be working with the guy who did what I will be doing LAST year. Suffice it to say, if I can do well here, I may very well be able to stay on with KSL after graduation in April.</div><div align="left"><br />So, after Greg offered me the position, I drove back to Provo, and called our Car Broker, who informed me that he was looking at a car that matched the description of what we wanted. He bid on it, and we got it! The car arrived in Provo, on Thursday, and we picked it up on Friday night. I was able to take it up to Salt Lake on Saturday for the UNLV game, and this car will make all the difference in my commute and my ability to be a viable future employee.<br /></div><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5261928298180670338" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 218px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Zo_WoIaiKFA/SQYf6Iaic4I/AAAAAAAAATE/k9P-FfLLuPM/s320/jetta.jpg" border="0" /> <p align="center"><span style="font-size:78%;">My new love, a 2001 VW Jetta. Black with beige interior.</span><br /></p><br />Saturday, after the game and the post-game interviews, the board operator and I were the only ones left in the studio. He needed someone to help him start the next program, so I sat in the other room, and when he cued me, I clicked a button that started an audio track that introduced “The Best of the Doug Wright Show.” Then I had to click the actual archived show’s button so the program would start. That means that I had brief—yet important—control over the entire radio station, broadcasting 50,000 Watts of power to the entire intermountain west. I felt powerful. It was fun.<br /><br />So, that basically sums up a great week!<br /><br />Thanks,<br />MarkUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674818872769230358.post-10447932676011119132008-10-20T19:43:00.003-06:002008-10-20T19:56:31.661-06:00Mission Statements and "Organization" ChartsAs a part of my internship with KSL, I was supposed to find out what their Organizational Chart looked like, and where I fit into it.<br /><br />Here is the "organization" chart...see if you can figure out where ANYONE fits in.<br /><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Zo_WoIaiKFA/SP01UjSFVoI/AAAAAAAAAS8/db1XTOSJgkM/s1600-h/ksl2.bmp"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5259418567023351426" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Zo_WoIaiKFA/SP01UjSFVoI/AAAAAAAAAS8/db1XTOSJgkM/s320/ksl2.bmp" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Zo_WoIaiKFA/SP01KGmluTI/AAAAAAAAAS0/fmUQPXG4xfw/s1600-h/ksl.bmp"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5259418387526039858" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Zo_WoIaiKFA/SP01KGmluTI/AAAAAAAAAS0/fmUQPXG4xfw/s320/ksl.bmp" border="0" /></a>To be honest, the “organizational” tree for KSL is so muddled, it’s anything BUT “organized.” I’m not even sure where my internship supervisor fits into it, much less myself. I would assume that he would count as an “On-Air Host,” and I report to him.<br /><br />For any of you who got through that boring part, and made it this far, and are still interested, here's the mission statement for KSL:<br /><div align="center"><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong>Mission Statement</strong></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">Bonneville International,<br />Parent Company of KSL</span><br /></div><div align="left"><br /><strong>People</strong><br />We expect top performance of ourselves. We provide the right environment for success and growth. We communicate honestly and sensitively. We have fun.</div><div align="left"> </div><div align="left"><strong>Communities</strong></div><div align="left">Our products and services entertain, inform, and lift our audiences. Our communities are better because we get involved and make a difference.</div><div align="left"> </div><div align="left"><strong>Profit</strong></div><div align="left">We meet aggressive financial goals consistently to drive growth of our businesses. We create value for our clients. We set the standard for how business should be done.</div><div align="left"> </div><div align="left">"Winning with Integrity," we're proud to be Bonneville!</div><div align="left">_______________________<br /></div><div align="right"><span style="font-size:78%;">Source: </span><a href="http://bonneville.com/?nid=9" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:78%;">http://bonneville.com/?nid=9</span></a><br /></div><div align="left"></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674818872769230358.post-22658098365021583902008-10-20T19:41:00.000-06:002008-10-20T19:42:56.415-06:00Internship Report, Week 7<strong>Intern Name:</strong> Mark Hamilton<br /><strong>Internship Site:</strong> KSL Newsradio 102.7 FM and 1160 AM<br /><strong>Emphasis:</strong> Broadcast Journalism<br /><strong>Semester and Section:</strong> Fall 2008, Section 001<br /><strong>Week Number:</strong> 7<br /><strong>Number of Hours This Week:</strong> 18<br /><br /><strong>Week 7 Report:</strong><br />BYU played TCU this week, and got trampled. By “horned frogs”. The headlines in the papers looked ridiculous, especially if you looked at it some a standpoint of just comparing the mascot animals involved. Could a horned frog really beat up a cougar that badly? That’s just what happened.<br /><br />When the microphones were still hot, just before breaking for commercials, you could hear the restrained frustration in the voices of the announcers. And when we were in the commercial break, you could not misunderstand Greg Wrubell’s feelings about the performance of BYU’s team. He really just captured what we all were feeling, when right from the get-go, the cougars seemed to choke.<br /><br />The air of excitement that had existed in the newsroom in previous weeks was squelched, as the cougars gave their worst performance in recent memory. Not to overlook TCU, since they deserve a lot of credit. They came out swinging, and looked like a top-ranked team that they now are. The game changed the mood in the newsroom in a way that nothing else has. Normally it’s all fun and excitement to be working there, but Thursday seemed painful for more than just the players—it hurt us.<br /><br />It was also interesting this week—as I eluded to last week, that the industry is tenuous—because on Thursday night, there was someone being trained to do what one of our Producers does. After that person left, our Producer was visibly uneasy, and when asked who the trainee was, he responded “Meet my replacement.” Now, I know little about actual newsroom politics, and what is really going on, but it seemed to me to be somewhat unfair. This particular producer seems like the kind of person everyone would want in a newsroom, and at least from my observation, it seemed like management had gone behind his back, and the first he found out about being replaced was when this new person came in to be trained.<br /><br />I guess I am finally witnessing firsthand the ugly side of journalism.<br /><br />We need a car. Last week we heard nothing from our car broker, and I need to call him today or tomorrow to help him understand that we need one NOW. I think he may still be of the understanding that we have all the time in the world, because it seems he puts other people ahead of us in importance. Hopefully by this time next week, I will be driving a “new used car.”<br /><br />That’s all for this week!<br /><br />Thanks,<br />MarkUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674818872769230358.post-30315533123616776062008-10-13T12:35:00.001-06:002008-10-13T12:37:45.194-06:00Internship Report, Week 6<p><strong>Intern Name:</strong> Mark Hamilton<br /><strong>Internship Site:</strong> KSL Newsradio 102.7 FM and 1160 AM<br /><strong>Emphasis:</strong> Broadcast Journalism<br /><strong>Semester and Section:</strong> Fall 2008, Section 001<br /><strong>Week Number:</strong> 6<br /><strong>Number of Hours This Week:</strong> 20<br /><br /><strong>Week 6 Report:</strong><br />BYU played New Mexico this week in what everyone expected would be one of their most difficult matchups thus far. That proved to be accurate, as New Mexico’s prolific defense held BYU’s prolific offense to just 21 points—an offense that had previously averaged more than 40 per game.<br /><br />The preparation for this week’s game was interesting, because BYU’s Coach Mendenhall has some New Mexico history. Bronco used to be the Defensive Coordinator for New Mexico, and he brought to BYU many of the lessons learned under Coach Long’s administration. And that, I think, is one of the major reasons that this matchup seemed to go nowhere in a hurry. It was one of the most unproductive games I have seen, offensively. But a win is a win, I guess.<br /><br />Something happened this week that helped me better understand the intricacies of the broadcast industry…<br /><br />I received a phone call from *someone I work with on game days, and he asked me to get specific audio from certain games for him as soon as I got there, because he was going to be late. When I got to work, I started working on that immediately. Then when **someone else I worked with asked me where he was, I told him he was going to be late. Apparently, I was the only one he had called. That inspired some frustration on their part. It made me think about the highly competitive nature of this industry, and how easy it is to get on someone’s blacklist. It also made me think about the nature of hiring and firing in the industry, and how tenuous the situation can become. In a stable newsroom like KSL’s, either someone has to quit, move on, or be fired to open up a spot for someone like me that wants to be hired. And I was sad to realize that I was almost hoping that that spot would open up in time for me to take it. Just as a disclaimer, the people I work with are great, and are a large part of the reason I would love to work there. I wish them no ill-will.<br /><br />We heard from our car broker this week, and almost ended up with a Jetta Wagon – something I’m not sure I’m comfortable with…I’ve never wanted to drive a station wagon. Turned out that it didn’t end up being a good deal, so Mr. Mourik didn’t get it for us. And it snowed this week after the game, making it hard for me to get home from Salt Lake. Good thing I had borrowed my parents’ car, anticipating that very thing. We need a solution soon.<br /><br />That’s all for this week!<br /><br />Thanks,<br />Mark<br /><br />*name withheld<br />**name ALSO withheld</p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674818872769230358.post-19564072141785141722008-10-08T19:08:00.005-06:002008-10-08T19:21:23.744-06:00iAdmit it. i want an iPhone.Yesterday, I was at work and I needed to call someone. I didn't have reception, so my boss handed me his iPhone.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Zo_WoIaiKFA/SO1a38GY_gI/AAAAAAAAASk/DfEj0dFLEmQ/s1600-h/iphone.bmp"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Zo_WoIaiKFA/SO1a38GY_gI/AAAAAAAAASk/DfEj0dFLEmQ/s400/iphone.bmp" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5254956257283472898" border="0" /></a>Yes, I the iPhone. I have long railed against them, citing their high price and low necessity. Does anyone really NEED an iPhone? No. Should everyone want one? Probably.<br /><br />I don't know what it was, but when I cradled that phone in my hands, it seemed to radiate energy and pure awesomeness in a way that few things in life can. I felt, for a brief second, that I DID in fact need an iPhone. After all, they're so sleek, user-friendly, powerful...<br /><br />It almost seemed a sin to use it for something as mundane and common as a phone call. Why on earth would I use an iPhone to make a call? That's what normalPhones are for.<br /><br />Like my rockin' BlackBerry Pearl, which I also love.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Zo_WoIaiKFA/SO1cOoVWm8I/AAAAAAAAASs/iYEOT95n8ks/s1600-h/blackberry-pearl.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Zo_WoIaiKFA/SO1cOoVWm8I/AAAAAAAAASs/iYEOT95n8ks/s400/blackberry-pearl.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5254957746626141122" border="0" /></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674818872769230358.post-65010768623573074462008-10-06T20:37:00.001-06:002008-10-06T20:39:47.527-06:00Internship Report, Week 5<strong>Intern Name:</strong> Mark Hamilton<br /><strong>Internship Site:</strong> KSL Newsradio 102.7 FM and 1160 AM<br /><strong>Emphasis:</strong> Broadcast Journalism<br /><strong>Semester and Section:</strong> Fall 2008, Section 001<br /><strong>Week Number:</strong> 5<br /><strong>Number of Hours This Week:</strong> 20<br /><br /><strong>Week 5 Report:</strong><br />This week we were back in action. BYU was back from their bye week, and it seemed everyone was ready to watch BYU’s team roll over their opponent once again. If you watched Friday’s game, however, you probably realized that by “everyone” I mean everyone BUT BYU’s team.<br /><br />It was supposed to be an easy victory over a team that was ranked as low as you can be…USU. While the final score was 34-14, it somehow felt like a loss. BYU played stupidly, inconsistently, and certainly didn’t look like a team ranked in the top ten.<br /><br />Monday we had our usual press conference. This week, however, I ventured to ask my first question. I asked—somewhat prophetically, it turns out—“How do you avoid a sense of complacency when you’re playing an unranked team?” Both the players and Bronco Mendenhall seemed to shrug off questions of that kind, and went so far as to declare over and over that they were treating this game just like any other.<br /><br />Tuesday through Thursday we did a lot more of the same, as far as cutting audio for the game day broadcast. During this time, I also finalized a compilation calendar I had been working on. We finally heard back from UVU, so we had all the schedules for every team in Utah. If that sounds like something you would love, I can E-mail you one.<br /><br />No word from our car broker since last week…the weather is getting colder and stormier, and I think we need a solution here before too long. Our loans came through, so we’re all ready on this end. Now it’s up to Mr. Mourik.<br /><br />That’s all for this week!<br /><br />Thanks,<br />MarkUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674818872769230358.post-36628201938313430432008-09-30T04:36:00.003-06:002008-09-30T04:43:06.386-06:00Internship Report, Week 4<strong>Intern Name:</strong> Mark Hamilton<br /><strong>Internship Site:</strong> KSL Newsradio 102.7 FM and 1160 AM<br /><strong>Emphasis:</strong> Broadcast Journalism<br /><strong>Semester and Section:</strong> Fall 2008, Section 001<br /><strong>Week Number:</strong> 4<br /><strong>Number of Hours This Week:</strong> 8<br /><br /><br /><strong>Week 4 Report:</strong><br />You may have noticed that I only got 8 hours for my internship this week...and you may have also noticed that BYU Football had a bye week, meaning they didn't play...so that's why.<br /><br /><br />Initially, I thought that I wouldn't be coming in at all this week, because of the bye, but in the post-game show on Saturday, Bronco said there would in fact be a press conference on Monday.<br /><br /><br />So, I went to the press conference on Monday. Things there were fairly normal, as you would expect. The only problem was that Travis Bright only spoke to reporters for about 2 minutes, and since I had gone to interview David Nixon first, I didn't get any audio from Travis Bright. That was lame. And Greg asked me if I had asked any questions, which I haven't yet--it's easy to just let everyone else ask questions and record their responses--when I told him, he challenged me to try asking questions of my own. I'll try next week.<br /><br /><br />Tuesday was spent cutting that audio into soundbytes. Wednesday, we gathered audio from the Mountain West Conference's Coaches' Teleconference, and I started compiling a calendar of all of the Men's Basketball games for all of the major Universities and Colleges in Utah. (I already did this for football, back before my hours were even counting.) We're already starting preparation for the beginning of the Basketball Season (still more than a month off.)<br /><br /><br />I heard back from our car broker this week...he was going to bid on a car that was our second choice of model, but nowhere near what we wanted color-wise (and my wife is pretty particular about this) so we didn't get it. Hopefully something will come up this week.<br /><br /><br />That's about it!<br /><br /><br />Thanks,<br />MarkUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674818872769230358.post-2000668119241468502008-09-27T12:29:00.008-06:002008-09-27T13:02:05.616-06:00Wedded Surprise...<p>I believe in the traditional family. I believe that marriage is a sacred institution, a bond and a union between God and His children. Marriage should only be between a man and a woman. Basically, what I believe about marriage is perfectly captured in <a href="http://www.lds.org/library/display/0,4945,161-1-11-1,00.html">"The Family: A Proclamation to the World"</a>:</p><br /><blockquote></blockquote><blockquote><em><span style="color:#000099;">"The family is ordained of God. Marriage between man and woman is essential to His eternal plan. Children are entitled to birth within the bonds of matrimony, and to be reared by a father and a mother who honor marital vows with complete fidelity. Happiness in family life is most likely to be achieved when founded upon the teachings of the Lord Jesus Christ. Successful marriages and families are established and maintained on principles of faith, prayer, repentance, forgiveness, respect, love, compassion, work, and wholesome recreational activities. By divine design, fathers are to preside over their families in love and righteousness and are responsible to provide the necessities of life and protection for their families. Mothers are primarily responsible for the nurture of their children. In these sacred responsibilities, fathers and mothers are obligated to help one another as equal partners."</span></em></blockquote><p>Marriage, when it is gone about correctly, should be the best, the strongest, the most rewarding relationship we have on this earth. I am grateful and feel blessed that mine fits this description.<br /><br />Among the myriad trends that are threatening this God-ordained institution is one in particular that I would like to mention...</p><p>This is the cake that my wife and I had at our reception. It was beautiful, and it tasted even better than it looks.</p><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Zo_WoIaiKFA/SN574pbod-I/AAAAAAAAAQc/Vlaqh6TOf6k/s1600-h/Picture+327.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5250770428685219810" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Zo_WoIaiKFA/SN574pbod-I/AAAAAAAAAQc/Vlaqh6TOf6k/s400/Picture+327.jpg" border="0" /></a> So why on earth would you want to shove something like this in the face of the person you just married hours earlier? I don't think that shoving food in someone's face is a good way to start off what many people believe is an Eternal marriage. You should conduct yourself with class and dignity, not reduce the most wonderful day of your life to a pseudo boxing match.<br /><br />Do I think less of people who DO shove cake in eachother's faces at their reception? Yes. It is a harsh reality, but even the people I like the most fall sharply in my list of people I respect. I don't know if studies have been conducted on the subject, but I think you'd find a nice relationship between divorce rates, and people that start off their marriage by shoving eachother in the face in public.<br /><br />After all, aren't you supposed to be ADULTS to get married?<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Zo_WoIaiKFA/SN57nR8QPLI/AAAAAAAAAQU/3OfxA73UWKc/s1600-h/cake.bmp"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5250770130321816754" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Zo_WoIaiKFA/SN57nR8QPLI/AAAAAAAAAQU/3OfxA73UWKc/s400/cake.bmp" border="0" /></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674818872769230358.post-2123180888018333372008-09-26T11:02:00.009-06:002008-09-27T19:33:47.611-06:00A Few of My Favorite Things, Part 1...I love animals. And I've included a few of my favorites below.<br /><br />But then I decided that they all have a disturbing trend...they're all awkward in some way--most have some feature of their body that is abnormally large. But I still love them.<br /><br />In no particular order, I give you...My Favorite Animals:<br /><br /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5250875197123737378" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Zo_WoIaiKFA/SN7bK-R4NyI/AAAAAAAAARM/fgSiuA9ngcI/s320/black_capped_chickadee.jpg" border="0" /><br /><div align="center"><span style="font-size:78%;">Black-Capped Chickadee</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size:78%;"></span></div><div align="center"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Zo_WoIaiKFA/SN7b7Z1gT_I/AAAAAAAAASU/TiMHe1exNmE/s1600-h/penguin2.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5250876029154643954" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Zo_WoIaiKFA/SN7b7Z1gT_I/AAAAAAAAASU/TiMHe1exNmE/s320/penguin2.jpg" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:78%;">African Penguin</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size:78%;"></span><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Zo_WoIaiKFA/SN7bv7IUqHI/AAAAAAAAARs/mkJXdj7hKMM/s1600-h/Hippo.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5250875831933511794" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Zo_WoIaiKFA/SN7bv7IUqHI/AAAAAAAAARs/mkJXdj7hKMM/s320/Hippo.jpg" border="0" /></a> <span style="font-size:78%;">Hippopotomus</span><br /><span style="font-size:78%;"></span><br /><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Zo_WoIaiKFA/SN7bv5WbUnI/AAAAAAAAAR0/dxJCFZZlnFc/s1600-h/loon.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5250875831455797874" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Zo_WoIaiKFA/SN7bv5WbUnI/AAAAAAAAAR0/dxJCFZZlnFc/s320/loon.jpg" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:78%;"> Loon</span></div><span style="font-size:78%;"></span><div align="center"><br /></div><p align="center"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Zo_WoIaiKFA/SN7bv_a_A_I/AAAAAAAAAR8/CmYyVkZFv9k/s1600-h/mallard_duck.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5250875833085527026" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Zo_WoIaiKFA/SN7bv_a_A_I/AAAAAAAAAR8/CmYyVkZFv9k/s320/mallard_duck.jpg" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:78%;">Mallard Duck<br /></span><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Zo_WoIaiKFA/SN7bwb837dI/AAAAAAAAASE/a83k-npZwoo/s1600-h/octopus.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5250875840743861714" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Zo_WoIaiKFA/SN7bwb837dI/AAAAAAAAASE/a83k-npZwoo/s320/octopus.jpg" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:78%;"> Octopus<br /></span><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Zo_WoIaiKFA/SN7bwdg0-EI/AAAAAAAAASM/qHmEq-GotrI/s1600-h/orca.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5250875841163098178" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Zo_WoIaiKFA/SN7bwdg0-EI/AAAAAAAAASM/qHmEq-GotrI/s320/orca.jpg" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:78%;">Killer Whale (Orca)<br /><br /></span><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Zo_WoIaiKFA/SN7bVmM26dI/AAAAAAAAARU/8Cte26ZH_Mw/s1600-h/duck.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5250875379638790610" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Zo_WoIaiKFA/SN7bVmM26dI/AAAAAAAAARU/8Cte26ZH_Mw/s320/duck.jpg" border="0" /></a> <span style="font-size:78%;">White Indian Runner Duck<br /><br /></span><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Zo_WoIaiKFA/SN7bV60kcCI/AAAAAAAAARc/j-qjzZCx5as/s1600-h/frog.bmp"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5250875385174061090" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Zo_WoIaiKFA/SN7bV60kcCI/AAAAAAAAARc/j-qjzZCx5as/s320/frog.bmp" border="0" /></a> <span style="font-size:78%;">Leopard Frog<br /></span><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Zo_WoIaiKFA/SN7bV5AabAI/AAAAAAAAARk/rkT6M7toEDc/s1600-h/giraffe.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5250875384686865410" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Zo_WoIaiKFA/SN7bV5AabAI/AAAAAAAAARk/rkT6M7toEDc/s320/giraffe.jpg" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:78%;"> Giraffe<br /><br /></span><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Zo_WoIaiKFA/SN7bG43kbjI/AAAAAAAAARE/uwdYEQjDDG4/s1600-h/black+dutch.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5250875126951734834" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Zo_WoIaiKFA/SN7bG43kbjI/AAAAAAAAARE/uwdYEQjDDG4/s320/black+dutch.JPG" border="0" /></a> <span style="font-size:78%;">Black Dutch Rabbit<br /></span><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Zo_WoIaiKFA/SN7bDq8v7BI/AAAAAAAAAQ8/usHQ0NCJ_W4/s1600-h/beaver.jpg"><br /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5250875071675755538" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Zo_WoIaiKFA/SN7bDq8v7BI/AAAAAAAAAQ8/usHQ0NCJ_W4/s320/beaver.jpg" border="0" /></a></p><p align="center"><span style="font-size:78%;">Beaver<br /><br /></span><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5250876027519564482" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Zo_WoIaiKFA/SN7b7Tvq-sI/AAAAAAAAASc/Vo-wn64lFOc/s320/kermit.jpg" border="0" /></p><p align="center"><span style="font-size:78%;">Kermit</span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674818872769230358.post-67430184121291056522008-09-24T17:04:00.000-06:002008-09-27T11:49:03.489-06:00"Jacket Weather"<em><span style="font-size:78%;">The title of this post is blatantly lifted from fellow Blogger and great friend, Marissa Benton. She and I grew up in the same part of the country, so it stands to reason that we would agree on this topic. And I love the imagery.</span></em> <div><br /><div align="left">Fall is the most underrated season. So few people appreciate how amazing it is, that if we're not careful, we may lose it altogether. In fact, there are only a select few places where it truly exists in its purest form. And I happen to have spent the formative years of my life in one of them.</div><br /><div align="left"></div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"></div><div align="left">So I will show you why fall--or autumn if you prefer--is the greatest season of the year.<br /></div><br /><div align="center"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5249787769807368194" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Zo_WoIaiKFA/SNr-KX2O8AI/AAAAAAAAAO0/Lr7eh_W60w4/s400/fall-foliage.jpg" border="0" /></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size:78%;">Fall Foliage</span> </div><div align="center"><br /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5249790802574565330" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Zo_WoIaiKFA/SNsA65yR39I/AAAAAAAAAO8/exFus9tCe6M/s400/apple.jpg" border="0" /><br /></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size:78%;">Fresh-Picked Apples</span></div><br /><div align="center"><span style="font-size:78%;"></span></div><p align="center"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5249800989322402770" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" height="374" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Zo_WoIaiKFA/SNsKL2YOW9I/AAAAAAAAAP8/bSOCss2mGSM/s400/cider.bmp" width="250" border="0" /></p><div align="center"></div><p align="center"><span style="font-size:78%;"><span style="font-size:100%;"></span>Apple Cider</span> </p><p align="center"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5249795299991308450" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Zo_WoIaiKFA/SNsFAr9_SKI/AAAAAAAAAPM/N-kgwjYVe0Q/s400/leaves.jpg" border="0" /> </p><p align="center"><span style="font-size:78%;">Crisp Air</span></p><p><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5249796906602381266" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Zo_WoIaiKFA/SNsGeND6v9I/AAAAAAAAAPU/EbZSAgHe904/s400/Pumpkin.jpg" border="0" /> </p><p align="center"><span style="font-size:78%;">Pumpkins</span></p><p align="center"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5249798569472836626" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Zo_WoIaiKFA/SNsH-_vIRBI/AAAAAAAAAPc/rZjbA3aALec/s400/hotchocolate.jpg" border="0" /> </p><p align="center"><span style="font-size:78%;">Hot Chocolate</span></p><p align="center"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5249799099768804322" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Zo_WoIaiKFA/SNsId3Pik-I/AAAAAAAAAPk/iPAos-ela1w/s400/rain.jpg" border="0" /> <span style="font-size:78%;">Cool Rain</span><br /></p><br /><br /><p><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5249799521529984210" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Zo_WoIaiKFA/SNsI2abPdNI/AAAAAAAAAPs/pjcGzI1bRyU/s400/cranberry.jpg" border="0" /> </p><p align="center"><span style="font-size:78%;">Cranberries<br />(Kathleen chose this picture.)</span></p><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5250758755395391842" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Zo_WoIaiKFA/SN5xRLCdUWI/AAAAAAAAAQM/NkNdaRhmBcU/s400/Polar_Fleece.jpg" border="0" /> <p align="center"></p><p align="center"><span style="font-size:78%;">Polar Fleece</span></p><p align="center"><span style="font-size:78%;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5250758050311459154" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Zo_WoIaiKFA/SN5woIZWUVI/AAAAAAAAAQE/IKZbV_RO89w/s400/Maple_syrup.jpg" border="0" /></span></p></div><br /><p align="center"><span style="font-size:78%;">Maple Syrup</span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674818872769230358.post-51438102200591960312008-09-23T10:48:00.008-06:002008-09-23T19:24:37.600-06:00"Called to Eat"<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Zo_WoIaiKFA/SNkyeCcKNXI/AAAAAAAAAOQ/hoJUCF8EqUc/s1600-h/food.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5249282332309468530" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 242px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 231px" height="303" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Zo_WoIaiKFA/SNkyeCcKNXI/AAAAAAAAAOQ/hoJUCF8EqUc/s320/food.jpg" width="303" border="0" /></a>When I was in the LDS Missionary Training Center, or MTC, there was a slight food-shortage crisis. Record numbers of missionaries were in the MTC at the same time, and there just wasn't enough food for everyone to be able to eat as much as they wanted. This revelation came to light because the people in the later meal schedules sometimes had nothing to eat but "onion rings and cereal." It was determined that it was because people on MY meal schedule (the first shift) were eating 3 or more entrées.<br /><div><br /></div><div></div><div>After that, this famed all-you-can-eat buffet-style MTC dining experience was limited to one entrée per meal, per person.</div><br /><div></div><div>In protest, the 12 members of my District composed new Spanish-language lyrics to the missionary classic "Called to Serve," which we would then sing loudly in protest as we waited in line for our meals. The lyrics follow:<br /></div><div align="center"><strong><span style="color:#990000;">"Llamados a Comer"</span></strong><br /></div><div align="center">Voy a comer tres o cuatro entrées,<br />No me importa lo que pasará.<br />A los otros, que vienen tardes,<br />No recibirán nada...<br /><br />Como, siempre como,<br />Engordándome al fín,<br />Glotón, yo soy glotón,<br />Como oso en jardín<br />Pollo, Super-Pollo,<br />Mi amigo a comer,<br />¡Yo estoy feliz,</div><div align="center">porque yo se que gordo puedo ser!</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674818872769230358.post-32787645671071780662008-09-22T19:30:00.000-06:002008-09-22T19:37:13.652-06:00Rediscovering My Love of "Man vs. Wild"I returned home from an LDS Mission to Spain in August of 2006. A few weeks later, I was attending BYU in Provo, UT. My new roommates and I made a discovery on Discovery..."Man vs. Wild."<br /><br /><div align="left"></div><div align="left">Imagine, if you will--for those of you who weren't there to witness it first-hand--the reaction of three 21 year-old guys living alone when they came upon that show.<br /></div><div align="left">It's the closest you can get to being outdoors while still watching TV.</div><br /><div align="center"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5248994965245083378" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Zo_WoIaiKFA/SNgtHEs_PvI/AAAAAAAAANo/GLOQWKfKYYg/s320/bear+fire.jpg" border="0" /> <span style="font-size:78%;">Bear Grylls, host and star of the show "Man vs. Wild" building a fire.</span><br /></div><div align="left">For those of you who have never seen the show, here's the premise:</div><br /><div align="left"><em>The show centers on a man named Bear Grylls, a former member of the British Special Forces. He now travels the world speaking and teaching survival classes and techniques. From this stemmed the show "Man vs. Wild" (as it's called in the U.S.) Each episode shows Bear being airlifted into the middle of an expanse of wilderness somewhere in the world (The Sahara Desert, The European Alps, etc.) and he has to survive long enough to be rescued or find civilization. In each episode he brings a few key items, like a cup, a knife, or flint. In a true survival situation, you would do/eat almost anything, and that is true of this show as well.</em> </div><div align="left"></div><br /><p><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5249015230603220482" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Zo_WoIaiKFA/SNg_irC4VgI/AAAAAAAAANw/Zkfax2xffes/s320/zebra.jpg" border="0" /></p><p align="center"><span style="font-size:78%;">In the Kalahari Desert episode<br />Bear eats the leftovers of a zebra killed by lions or hyenas.</span><br /></p><br /><div align="center"></div><div align="left">As you can understand, a show like this--so far out of the norm of television programming--would caputre the attention of (mostly) men and women around the world. We tuned in with rapt attention every week, and even printed a schedule of every time episodes would air for the rest of the school year.</div><div align="left"></div><br /><div align="left">So, also understandably, I was more than a little heart-broken to be wrenched from my illusion of reality when I found out that Bear Grylls doesn't do everything on his own--he recieves assistance on more than one occasion. As I read rumors on the Internet, and watched interviews on TV, it seemed everything was unravelling. For a time, I confess, my love of "Man vs. Wild" grew cold.</div><div align="left"></div><br /><div align="left">But, like the emergence of new life in the spring, my dormant love reflourished and grew when my wife Kathleen bought me a DVD collection of the first two seasons. As I watched them, I was at first dissappointed, because I realized things had been changed from how the episodes originally aired. For instance, in the episode that takes place in Alaska, Bear is seen eating a freshly-caught, live, uncooked salmon. In the original episode, they lead you to believe that he caught it with a stick. In the DVD version, they make it clear that Bear lost patience trying to catch one, so he ate one that a member of the crew caught.</div><br /><div align="left"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5249020127238733298" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Zo_WoIaiKFA/SNhD_sbwvfI/AAAAAAAAAN4/gQDALpuu2JM/s400/salmon.jpg" border="0" /></div><br /><p align="center"><span style="font-size:78%;">Bear devouring "the freshest Salmon you'll ever have."</span></p><p align="left">At first I was outraged that I had been so easily duped, and I if felt like I had been betrayed, or that the show had been cheapened. But then my feelings began to be pacified...I thought about it, and I realized that THIS IS STILL REAL. Do you see him eating that Salmon? Do you see that Zebra? He's really doing these things.</p><p align="left">So, say what you may, "Man vs. Wild" is still an amazing show. The events and things he is doing are real. And if you want him to be completely up-front and honest with you, just get ahold of the new DVDs...they have changed everything to make it factual and not misleading.</p><p align="left">And I love it.</p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674818872769230358.post-62651699667108632932008-09-22T11:00:00.000-06:002008-09-22T19:37:42.014-06:00Internship Report, Week 3<p><strong>Intern Name:</strong> Mark Hamilton<br /><strong>Internship Site:</strong> KSL Newsradio 102.7 FM and 1160 AM<br /><strong>Emphasis:</strong> Broadcast Journalism<br /><strong>Semester and Section:</strong> Fall 2008, Section 001<br /><strong>Week Number:</strong> 3<br /><strong>Number of Hours This Week:</strong> 20<br /><br /><strong>Week 3 Report:</strong><br />As will probably continue to be the case, this week was much like the others, so I will do my best to highlight things that were different, and spare you a re-hashing of things that I do every week…<br /><br />This week was notable because after last week’s stomping of UCLA 59-0, BYU has attracted quite a bit of attention on a national scale, and actually, as of this writing, they are ranked 11th in the polls nationally. All this attention is both good and bad for BYU, because both BYU and the Mountain West Conference need more national recognition and respect, but at the same time, it proved to be a distraction from the team’s focus.<br /><br />In the opening quarter of Saturday’s game against Wyoming, BYU’s offense didn’t score. Both Max Hall and Bronco Mendenhall were flooded with interview requests and appeared on ESPN during the week, putting a strain on them that they haven’t known before. As a result, they have changed their policies dealing with the media in order to refocus. That made me think more about the fine line the media walks in their lust for information and interviews…sometimes it is hard to remember that these are real people, with real lives, that are going out of their way to accommodate you. We ought to respect that.<br /><br />This week went well, as far as the day-to-day things go. On Saturday, up at KSL Headquarters, the game was a bit slower than normal, since BYU easily handled Wyoming. But that didn’t stop it from being one of the craziest days for me at work. I was following the Utah-Air Force game and cutting highlights from that at the same time I was cutting highlights from the East Carolina-Carolina game, and other top-25 games. I was answering phone calls, E-mailing audio highlights to ESPN and The Mtn., etc. I was literally running around doing 5 things at once. And it was great…time flies on Saturdays, even though it’s more than 8 hours. My job satisfaction there is great…I love working there, and the people I am working with.<br /><br />Still waiting to hear word on the new car we’ve ordered through a car broker. I’m not sure my current car can keep up this rigorous schedule of commuting.<br /><br />That’s it for this week.</p><br /><p>Thanks!<br />~ Mark Hamilton </p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674818872769230358.post-37856067695240962622008-09-17T12:46:00.013-06:002008-09-17T20:38:33.859-06:00BYU - Helping Students by Not Helping StudentsI drive. A lot. And because of how amazing my car is, I love it, except for the commuting associated with my internship.<br /><br /><br />My anguish over commuting stems from three things:<br /><br />1) I have to get up at 4 a.m. to get to downtown Salt Lake from Provo,<br />2) I have a car that may die at any time, and in any place, and could even kill me, and<br />3) I have to find parking near BYU campus.<br /><br />Here's an <a href="http://newnewsnet.byu.edu/story.cfm/69373">article</a> about the situation from the Daily Universe, BYU's newspaper: <div><br /></div><div><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5247098699452778930" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Zo_WoIaiKFA/SNFwd4JMCbI/AAAAAAAAANA/w0yYuMj9jjg/s400/Picture+1.png" border="0" />Last Friday, I recieved the following E-mail from BYU admins:<br /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5247063915527605634" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: pointer; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Zo_WoIaiKFA/SNFQ1L7LDYI/AAAAAAAAAMo/A--VpTbDtVs/s400/untitled.bmp" border="0" /><br />As the last line emphasizes, this is a project that will benefit students. Well, it would have been TRULY beneficial if they had undertaken this massive project DURING THE SUMMER.<br /><div><br /></div><div>During the summer, campus looks kinda' like this:</div><div><br /></div><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><br /></div><div><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5247092280777804898" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Zo_WoIaiKFA/SNFqoQt0jGI/AAAAAAAAAM4/ZuKexqlyE58/s400/campus.jpg" border="0" /> <div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">Photo by Mark Hamilton</span></div><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><br /></div><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center">Empty.<br /></div><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><br /></div><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: left">According to <a href="http://yfacts.byu.edu/viewarticle.aspx?id=103">this site</a>, the Spring and Summer Term enrollment is actually on the DEcline, and sits at roughly one-fourth that of Fall and Winter Semesters.</div><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: left"><br /></div><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: left"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-STYLE: italic">If you're interested in exact numbers, in 2007, there were 10,321 students at BYU for Spring Term, and just 7,563 for Summer. Compare that with the 30,426 for Fall Semester and 29,004 for Winter, and I think we've built a pretty compelling case.</span></span></div><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: left"><br /></div><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: left">Instead, what BYU has done is disrupt the already tenuous parking situation in the middle of what we have just shown to be the busiest time of the year for BYU. I have a hanging A-lot pass that I'm not supposed to use for things unless they're KSL Radio, and because of the disruption of this parking lot, those A-lot pass holders are forced into other lots too, meaning that there weren't even A-lot spots. And since I'm coming from SALT LAKE to Provo, I don't have time to circle campus looking for a spot. As it is, I was late to my quiz in class.</div><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: left"><br /></div><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: left">Boo, BYU. Shame on you. Is it so hard to take care of things like this during summer term when only 24.86% of your student body is in Provo? I think not. Planning like this would make the school's namesake cringe.</div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674818872769230358.post-75355432016088129322008-09-15T12:08:00.010-06:002008-09-15T15:19:20.039-06:00BYU-UCLA<div align="left">I just thought I'd mention here how fun it was to watch the BYU-UCLA game on Saturday, and listen to Greg Wrubell's call on KSL Newsrado 102.7 FM and 1160 AM.</div><br /><br /><div align="left"><br />There's almost nothing I love better than shutting up critics in a resounding way--and Saturday accomplished that.</div><p align="center"><span style="font-size:130%;color:#000099;"><em><strong>It's not every day a team wins 59-0.</strong></em></span></p><br /><div align="center"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Zo_WoIaiKFA/SM6lZXAb8sI/AAAAAAAAAMQ/_30XXrrJlM0/s1600-h/hall-ucla.gif"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5246312471024366274" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Zo_WoIaiKFA/SM6lZXAb8sI/AAAAAAAAAMQ/_30XXrrJlM0/s320/hall-ucla.gif" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:78%;"> Junior quarterback Max Hall tied a BYU record with seven touchdown passes</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size:78%;">in the Cougars' 59-0 victory over UCLA. (BYU Photo/Mark Philbrick)</span></div><br /><br /><div align="center"><span style="font-size:78%;"></span><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5246313329033042130" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Zo_WoIaiKFA/SM6mLTVpWNI/AAAAAAAAAMY/bsMzJMgh9JM/s320/ucla+2.jpg" border="0" /><span style="font-size:78%;">(Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times)</span></div><div align="center"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"></span></span></div><blockquote><div align="center"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><br /></span></span></div><div align="center" style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">"BYU sure showed me: OK, I admit it, I was wrong. BYU came out with fury against UCLA and showed anyone who might have questioned whether the cougars belonged in the BCS buster conversation that there was no doubt. Quarterback Max Hall needs to be considered a dark horse for the Heisman if he's not already. Obviously, a lot of contenders had great games on Saturday, but only Hall threw seven touchdowns." -- Graham Watson, ESPN.com</span></span></div></blockquote><div align="center"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"></span></span></div><br /><div align="center"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Zo_WoIaiKFA/SM6lOIy9ASI/AAAAAAAAAMI/nf7q_LXnapU/s1600-h/ucla.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5246312278231154978" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Zo_WoIaiKFA/SM6lOIy9ASI/AAAAAAAAAMI/nf7q_LXnapU/s320/ucla.jpg" border="0" /></a></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size:78%;">I'd probably feel like Verner too if my team had just lost 59-0.<br />(Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times)</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674818872769230358.post-10692498373437399652008-09-15T11:57:00.005-06:002008-09-15T12:06:04.360-06:00Internship Report, Week 2Since I am already writing these reports to turn in to my internship advisors, I thought I would include them in my blog as a sort of running journal of my experiences with KSL Newsradio. Let me know what you think!<br />---------------------------<br /><br /><strong>Intern Name:</strong> Mark Hamilton<br /><strong>Internship Site:</strong> KSL Newsradio 102.7 FM and 1160 AM<br /><strong>Emphasis:</strong> Broadcast Journalism<br /><strong>Semester and Section:</strong> Fall 2008, Section 001<br /><strong>Week Number:</strong> 2<br /><strong>Number of Hours This Week:</strong> 19.5<br /><br /><strong>Week 2 Report:</strong><br />This is actually the first such report I have written for my internship, because I started a few weeks ago (before the semester even started) but it wasn’t counting as official University Credit until it was officially approved about a week and a half ago.<br /><br />I can’t tell you how fortunate I consider myself to be completing my internship requirement with KSL Newsradio. Specifically, my internship is the Sports Radio Internship, and my responsibilities lie with Greg Wrubell, “The Voice of the Cougars.” It is wonderful to work with him, and I already feel like I am making huge contributions to the production team at KSL Broadcast House. I have heard horror stories of internships where you are basically a glorified slave, being sent to make coffee or to make copies and run errands. My biggest concern was that I wanted to feel needed and appreciated. And I do.<br /><br />My only two complaints are the hours and the commute. It is rough working a part-time job and going to school full-time in Provo and doing an internship in Salt Lake. This is more or less how my week usually goes:<br /><br />Mondays, at 9:30 a.m., I meet Greg at Legends Grille here on BYU campus. I help him set up the audio equipment for the BYU Football Press Conference that starts at 10:00 a.m. We not only record the press conference for posting to the web and for future use in radio broadcasts throughout the week, but it is broadcast live on the internet and KSL’s XM-radio frequency. Typically, a press conference starts with Coach Bronco Mendenhall, and then it breaks up into pool interviews of two of the players. That is where I spring into action, and I am expected to record good audio from both players and even ask them questions. I bring that back to Greg, and he uploads it to the internet.<br /><br />Tuesday through Thursday, I’m up at KSL headquarters from 5:45 a.m.-8:45 a.m. Things are less set-in-stone, but usually, I am breaking up audio from press conferences, teleconferences, interviews, etc. into 5-15 second sound bites that can be used for broadcast. I also compile a list of these sound bites, called a “cut list” and distribute it to on-air personalities, such as Greg Wrubell. All of this is done digitally (or “non-linearly”). During the week, I also update stats sheets from the previous week’s game. All of the preparation up to this point is leading us to “game day,” typically on Saturdays. If you’re keeping a running-total, you probably realize at this point that after four days, I’ve barely done half of my hours for the week. That’s because…<br /><br />Saturdays (or whatever day is game day), I have to be at KSL Headquarters 2 hours before game time. So, if the kickoff is at 1:30 p.m. like it was this week, I have to be there at 11:30 a.m. As soon as I get there, I am working with on-air personalities Randolph Fairbairn, Paul McHardy and Andrew Adams, pulling sound bites from other Mountain West Conference games, and the top-25 ranked teams’ games. This helps them with the pre-game show, spots during timeouts in the actual BYU game, and their halftime show. This all goes in a cut list like I described earlier. During the BYU game, these responsibilities continue, and I also answer KSL Newsradio’s main phone line, and also keep a running cut list of sound bite highlights from the BYU game. When the game ends, I record the post-game shows, and keep a running list of possible sound bites to cut later. When the post-game shows end, they start the “Cougar Call-in Show,” and I become a call screener. I answer up to 10 phone lines, and take down the information of the callers. When the call-in show stuff is over, I cut the audio from the post-game press conferences, player interviews and coach interviews into sound bites for use during the next few days, and compile a cut list of that as well. Also, during a game we frequently receive calls from ABC Sports Radio (ESPN) or Fox Sports (FSN) requesting audio highlights from the game. I then convert the files into .mp3 format and e-mail them to the appropriate people, who then air them on national media. By the time I am done working on game days, I am understandably exhausted.<br /><br /><br />As you can tell, I needn’t have feared that I would be doing menial labor at KSL. They put me to work, and I give it everything I have. You can ask any of them, and they’ll tell you what they tell me on almost a daily basis—they couldn’t do it without me. It has been both fun, and rewarding thus far. I also feel like I am getting an invaluable education in what really goes on in a newsroom.<br /><br /><br />If I had to pin down what I specifically learned this week, I think it would be what one producer told me on Saturday. After telling me I did an awesome job, and thanking me for everything I do to make the show possible, I told him if there’s ever anything else I can do, to let me know. He thought for a second, and then said,<br /><br /><blockquote><p><em><span style="color:#000099;">“OK, there is something, I guess, that I would tell you—‘Take the initiative.’”</span></em></p></blockquote><br />He told me that I didn’t have to wait for anyone to ask me to do things…if I saw a need, I should just do it, and they would tell me if I was doing too much, or overstepping my bounds.<br /><br /><br />It is easy to be excited about going to my internship, even on early mornings when I’m getting up at 4:00 a.m. because it is a great atmosphere. I’m really grateful and fortunate to be working with a team of producers that are positive and work as a team, and tolerate my lack of experience while helping me to learn on the job—literally.<br /><br /><br />That’s it for this week.<br /><br />Thanks!<br /><br />~ Mark HamiltonUnknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674818872769230358.post-68847049655794719392008-09-12T10:33:00.005-06:002008-09-12T10:46:04.908-06:0011 September 2008I was going to write this yesterday, but time didn't permit it. I thought a lot yesterday about the events that happened seven years ago. I almost can't believe that so much time has passed.<br /><br />The events of 11 September 2001 left an indellible impression on me--they changed me forever. They changed the way I looked at the world. They changed my values, my patriotism--my life.<br /><br />It was then that I decided that I wanted to do something that would make a difference. Something that would help people around the world, and give me a platform to share what I considered to be most important. They say "no man is an island," but prior to 9-11, I think the feeling in the U.S. was that we WERE. It was immediately apparent that the world had been forever changed, and from that point forward, the world's concerns were ours and vice-versa.<br /><br />That's why I am a journalist. To help this nation in its continuous struggle to break free of ignorance and closed-mindedness and reach out to the world around us. Knowledge is power, more than any other force.<br /><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Zo_WoIaiKFA/SMqacGi6LQI/AAAAAAAAAMA/hoo8vxkwevE/s1600-h/american-flag.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5245174523610410242" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Zo_WoIaiKFA/SMqacGi6LQI/AAAAAAAAAMA/hoo8vxkwevE/s320/american-flag.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><p> </p><p>Every day of life and freedom that I--and you--continue to enjoy is thanks to the millions throughout history who have fought for that life and freedom. Whether you agree with the events that have transpired since that fateful day 7 years ago or not, ALL of us owe the men and women in the Armed Forces our support and gratitude for their sacrifices on our behalf.</p><p>Freedom isn't free.</p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674818872769230358.post-8101841251902645272008-08-29T09:20:00.009-06:002008-08-29T22:44:24.459-06:00Palin-who?I woke up this morning later than usual...since it's my day off from my internship, "all" I have to do is work at <a href="http://www.byutvint.org/">BYU Television International</a> today.<br /><br />When I woke up, one of the first things I found out was that John McCain had caught us all off-guard by reaching deep into left field for his VP pick...first-term Alaska Governor Sarah Palin. I don't think ANYONE expected that. And maybe that's why McCain picked her. I mean, who had even heard of her before this morning? Probably no one but the <a href="http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/02000.html">670,053 residents of Alaska</a>. That's about the population of the college town I live in during the school year. And I don't think the Mayor of Provo is qualified to be Vice President.<div><br /></div><div><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">"Today, John McCain put the former mayor of a town of 9,000 with zero foreign policy experience a heartbeat away from the presidency." - Bill Burton, Obama campaign spokesman</span></span></blockquote><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Zo_WoIaiKFA/SLgW4qB-ayI/AAAAAAAAALc/PtOB2DNtayI/s1600-h/palin.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Zo_WoIaiKFA/SLgW4qB-ayI/AAAAAAAAALc/PtOB2DNtayI/s200/palin.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5239963329056631586" border="0" /></a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Palin">Sarah Palin</a><br />Governor of Alaska<br /><br /></div>As I broadcast industry-insider, I did enjoy watching the media scramble to come up with information and video about her, in an attempt to try to explain this inexplicable choice. It should be fun to see what happens in the next few days as we near the Republican National Convention.<br /><br />The only thing I can say is that I, along with millions of others I'm sure were hoping his pick would be Mitt Romney. I fear this choice will help Obama win in a landslide, and this morning the Obama camp is drawing up a statement addressing the issues of bringing in someone "without experience" who is "under investigation in her own state" etc. Others note that choosing a woman as his running-mate may further help McCain attract those disgruntled voters that still support Hillary Clinton.<br /><br />Only time will tell what the repercussions of this choice will be, but I am now mentally preparing myself for 4 years under a democratic Presidency.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674818872769230358.post-80291455792869080452008-08-28T19:38:00.009-06:002008-08-28T21:23:03.547-06:00KSL Sports Radio InternshipAnyone that looks at the date on the previous post will see that I am pathetically behind on my Blog. Well, I've been inspired by the faithful dedication of my new boss to HIS <a href="http://www.ksl.com/?sid=&nid=497">Blog</a>.<br />If you recognize him, it's because he is a local celebrity. I say local, but his influence is far-reaching. His name is Greg Wrubell. You may know him as "The Voice of the Cougars."<br /><br />Yes, out of the I'm-not-sure-how-many people who applied for the internship, I was the one lucky soul who was selected. So, KSL Radio has now become an integral part of my life, and will be for at least the next 14 weeks or so.<br /><br />Thus far, it has been great. Greg is awesome to work with, and I feel like I'm actually part of the action and that what I am doing really helps.<br /><br />The schedule for me is thus:<br /><br />Mondays, we have a BYU Football press-conference at <a href="http://dining.byu.edu/legendsgrille/index.html">Legends Grille</a> from 9:30 - 11:00 a.m. That's where we gather our audio for the week's radio segments. Coach Bronco Mendenhall and two players are the speakers. <p>Tuesday through Thursday, I drive up to KSL's Headquarters in Salt Lake (in a car that probably shouldn't be doing that--I'll get into that more later), and I'm there from 6:00 - 9:00 a.m. That's when I cut up the audio from the press conference, teleconferences, the Bronco Mendenhall Show, etc. into usable soundbites for air.</p><p align="left">Saturdays (or gameday) I am once again in Salt Lake for the pre-game show, the game, and the post-game show. It usually takes about 8 hours. As I haven't yet done this, I'm not sure exactly what I will do there. </p><p align="center"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5239774098123446962" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Zo_WoIaiKFA/SLdqx93w2rI/AAAAAAAAALE/nWM03QLzS1I/s200/greg.jpg" border="0" /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5239774226869125026" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Zo_WoIaiKFA/SLdq5dfH_6I/AAAAAAAAALM/dTVLGfxn1EI/s400/ksl+radio.jpg" border="0" /><br />Greg Wrubell's Blog:<br /><a href="http://www.ksl.com/?sid=&nid=497">"Cougar Tracks"</a></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0