FINAL BLOG- A mostly opinionated rant on CSI

Hello everyone that probably won't be reading this considering we don't have to comment on it. I was thinking about CSI: Miami. I don't really watch it but if my parents are watching it or I have a gun to my head forcing my eyes open I will tune in. I am just kidding it's not that bad. But, there are two things that bug me about the show.

The first is the concept. It is a show about solving crimes from crime scenes in Miami where the CSI people get Hummers apparently. They solve some of the most difficult crimes. Now, I KNOW there is some psycho serial murderer watching this show taking notes on what the hardest crimes were to solve by the CSI crew. He will then use this information to terrorize some poor city. If that happens I say we put the producers in jail.

The second thing that bugs me about CSI: Miami is Horatio Cane. Need I say more? Summarization: dramatic close up, first part of dramatic witty statement, sunglasses put on, second part of dramatic witty statement, and then finally the "YEAAAAAH!!!" audio clip. His acting just bugs me. It reminds me of William Shatner sort of.

One other thing I thought of is how much sex they use in that show. It's always a dead hooker or something of the sort when they are solving the crime. All in all, it may not be a terrible show but I don't really like it and Horatio bugs me the most.

As this is my last blog of the semester, I would like to thank all the people that read my blogs. It has had its ups and downs. There were some weeks where I had to stop myself so I didn't write too much and there were some weeks where I couldn't think of anything. I tried my best to make your mandatory blog reading entertaining. Well, since I just watched the Star Trek clip, all I can think to say is thank you, of course, and Live long and prosper!

The Future of Newspapers

It is EVERYONE's favorite form of media- Newspapers! Wait....what? To tell you the truth, it isn't. With the advances in technology over the years, waking up and reading the newspaper with your morning coffee is becoming a thing of the past. With more than 1 billion personal computers being used worldwide, most of them in the United States, Western Europe, and Japan, many people have internet access.

All of you reading this have some form of internet access. Many people have more than one laptop in their homes. There are many websites on the internet that have up-to-the-minute news. Some of these websites are Google News, Yahoo! News, and CNN.com. National sports news can be found at espn.com. Even local newspapers such as The Valley City Times Record and The Minot Daily News have websites that include much of the same information that is in the paper.

So, with all these online resources for news, it brings up the question "What is the point of buying a subscription to a newspaper if you can get all of the information online?" A few cases come to mind. When I was growing up, we got a newspaper subscription for the sole purpose to read about the local sports with the hopes to see an article about the Gleburn High School sports teams that my brothers and I were a part of. We would then cut these articles out and send them to my grandma where she would scrapbook them. Along with scrapbookers, some people that would prefer to subscribe to a newspaper would be the small percentage of people that don't have internet access at home, people who just prefer the paper, or maybe someone who likes to use the newspaper, not only for news, but for special crafts.

It is this population of people that is barely keeping newspapers alive. Many newspapers such as The Rocky Mountain News that we learned about in class have shut down. So, what do you think? What is the future of newspapers? I, personally, think they are going to be nearly obsolete in a couple of decades.