Group 10 - Taiwan's TV Programs (Socially relevant or pure garbage)

The main message of group 10's issue is about the TV programs in Taiwan. I enjoyed their show very much, I like it. It was not ony interesting but also related to the topic. The voice of the host and the guests were very clear and loud enough. The pacing of the delivery was not too fast. Though they did not use many background music and sound effects, the show was still great. I like they shot part of the film in "The Bird Dad's Shop," it was quite funny, I heard that they taught the shopkeeper for a long time to let him know how to say"What happened?" It was very kind of the shopkeeper that promised to play the role. I also like the part of the film the "King of Adventure" and the way they gave the examples like "Super Idol" and "Have you been a college student."

TV programs are very variety. Some could be useful and good, others could be useless and bad. For example, on socially relevant side, I think the "King of Adventure," "Super Star Avenue" and the "公視表演廳" are good programs. In the "King of Adventure," we can learn a lot of knowledge of foreign countries. Every time I watch this program, I can know more about the life style or culture of a country, and I want to visit the country very much! I also like the" Super Star Avenue" because I can hear some good songs and know stories of the competitors and support to them. This program also let me understand more about how to admire a song. I can watch a lot of art performances on"公視表演廳." It plays ballet or modern dances, the performances of musical groups and operas...etc. I love this programs very much! On purely garbage side, I think the TV programs which are talking about ghosts are unnecessary. It means nothing but scares audiences. For instance, the shows "玫瑰瞳鈴眼" and "藍色蜘蛛網" play the films that someone killed somebody then saw the ghost.... The shows"模範棒棒堂" and "我愛黑澀會" are useless. They play games which has no meaningfulness. I do not know what can I learn form thier games, competitions and meaningless conversation. In my opinion, those programs are purely garbage shows.



1.One part of the"King of Adventure" in Finland
http://tw.youtube.com/watch?v=kIGLVgBPUNs


2.One of the competitor 梁文音's performance on the "Super Star Avenue"
http://tw.youtube.com/watch?v=zgmeT3YOP5I


3.One part of the performance of Prokofiev Piano Concerto on "公視表演廳"
http://tw.youtube.com/watch?v=E2JSNv7w1ZM

4.One part of film of "模範棒棒堂"
http://tw.youtube.com/watch?v=EKJj6t_TX8o

5.One part of film of "我愛黑澀會"

http://tw.youtube.com/watch?v=ttzyeLpllKc

Group 9 - Taiwan News Media (Quality of news reporting)

The news is very necessary for public. We need to know what happen to our country and the world, so the news media is very important. News media in Taiwan is group 9's topic. I think the quality of group 9's podcast was great. The voice of the hosts and guests were clear and loud enough, and the pacing of the delivery was good, not too fast or slow. There were some background music and effects, it was really effective,and there was no noise. The music they used was good, especially the song that when they welcame the doctor, but if they can use the fade effect on the music, it would be better.

Nowadays,there are many kinds of news media,such as newspaper, television news channels and so on. Therefore, they compete intensely with one another in order to exist. This situation caused a new type of journalism - "Yellow journalism." This kind of news always uses scare headlines in huge print to catch audiences' attention. They try everything to get audiences' notice. They love sensationalism and exaggerations. The main messages may not conform to the headlines, even the news may not be reported entirely on fact.
(Know more about it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_journalism)

In my opinion, the news media in Taiwan is tend to yellow journalism. They are too free to report news. In order to present more sensationalized news to the audiences, they will keep on chasing and asking questions to the party concerned. For example, the paparazzi love to trace the entertainers. They always trespass on their secrets and liberty. Sometimes, they just have meals with others (just they two) or the bebavior is closer to other people, they MUST report that they have a amorous affair. They only report what they see, not by the truth. People always be attracted by this headline,like"XXX betray his/her boy/girlfriend, go to do.....with XXX!" Who knows the truth? But people love to read this type of news!

This is an link to one of yellow journalism news that the headline seems to be about amorous affairs, but the real content is about the person's new album.

http://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url/d/a/090109/78/1cogn.html