Journal 4

 Broadcasting & Cable, April 1, 2002
Journal of Film and Video, Winter 2001-2002

Mission as stated by magazine: (Broadcasting & Cable) not stated; (Journal of Film and Video) The Journal of Film and Video focuses on                                                                      scholarship in the fields of film and video production, history, theory, criticism, and aesthetics.

Frequency: (Broadcasting & Cable) weekly; (Journal of Film and Video) Quarterly

Publisher: (Broadcasting & Cable) Reed Business Information; (Journal of Film and Video) University Film and Video Association

Writers: (Broadcasting & Cable) Many of the writers are part of the “staff,” but there are some outside writers.  (The Journal) Mostly authors from                outside the publication.

Audience: The audience is the anyone interested in the information provided by these publications and anyone that needs reference about articles                       contained in these publications.

Format: (Broadcasting & Cable) Regular magazine format; (The Journal) Small magazine format

Articles: (Broadcasting & Cable) Any important event that happened during the week is a likely story in this publication.  (The Journal) Each month a                specified subject area is chosen and all articles are about that subject.

Regular features: (Broadcasting & Cable) Top of the Week, Road to Nab; (The Journal) none

Advertisers: The magazine has advertisers of all kinds, but most of them are media related and issues or advertisements focus on the content of the                       publications.

Covers field:  I feel that both publications did a great job covering their issues.

Summary: In Broadcasting & Cable, I read an article called “The Charlottesville Question: FCC takes big step toward deciding how much radio                           concentration to much.  This article was wonderful.  I agreed with most parts of it.  Policies are policies and that is just the way it is.  I                           understand why the courts are getting frustrating, but I also understand where the radio backers are coming from.  The Journal of Film                       and Video was mostly about X-Files and X-Philes.  I read an article called “X-Philes: Imaginations of Millennial Anxieties.”  To be honest,                   I am not even sure what to say about the article.  The article was really confusing and way above my head.  All I understood was what The                  X-Files was examined for and the primary results, but then the article goes into all these different series and movies that I get lost.  Then, it                  gets into a dialogue that really has no point.  For the most part, I feel that both publications truly did their proper jobs, whether I understood                  completely or not.