"My Date with Drew" : Finally

              My Date With Drew is a light documentary about a simple guy trying to have a date with a superstar. He desperately wants to meet her long time celebrity Hollywood crush Drew Barrymore and for him he will do everything to just to have a date with her. The documentary was very new for me. We're always used on watching heavy type of documentary, but this interest me a lot. It is also a perfect documentary to relate to ideology.
 
             The documentary showed different types of attitudes, behavior,characters and beliefs on the idea of being a perfect guy. The ideology here was that media construct our minds in such ways we already know what we will do for the guy to be good for dating Drew Barrymore. First thing that comes in our minds is that he needs to have a make over. It is really fun and exciting to watch especially when you are anxious on what will happen on the end.

            It was really a very good thing that it had a happy ending and he finally met Drew Barrymore and got a date with her.For me what helped him is not only the connections but also he's fighting spirit to get what he wants. The good thing about this was, he didn't give up on trying and trying until he really got a great opportunity to meet his long time crush. It was good to see that even if he was just a very extra ordinary guy with that big dream. It is never impossible it that would not come true. Also, the highlight here was his make over and the steps he went through the process. I'd love to watch more light documentaries like this. It inspires me to be creative and widen my range through the course of the media industry.

SICK-O! = "Poor Health Care in US."

            It was devastating to see what the America's real health situation really is. I never expected that America being this very "powerful" country actually has a system like what I have saw in the documentary. Now I have understood some under statements from my aunts in the States on what they're talking about. America has this hidden agenda on their health care situation.

     On the other hand, third world country like Cuba surprisingly provides free health care for their citizens unlike a first world country like United States doesn't even have a proper health system in their country which leads me to a idea that it is never really right to under estimate a country's strength. Maybe we all have our strength and weaknesses. One may not work on a certain country but it may work on yours. It is really a irony of life.

     I just hope that United states would change their ways on certain things. Moreover, focus on the betterment of their health care systems because above all things it is important to prioritize their citizen's health care needs. Health is wealth as the famous equitation say. Life of the people is at risk and you can never replace somebody's life when it's actually gone. 

"Control Room" Documentary

             As I’ve watched the documentary Control Room it opened my mind through a lot of possibilities. Possibilities that what had happened to the United States and Iraq might have happened to us in the near future. But then the story doesn’t concentrate there, it’s more than that. It is a question on who’s fair and balanced? Most especially,  when it comes to giving the information through the public. The documentary revolves on how The Al Jazeera delivers the news to the people and their ways on communicating through the whole world. It is all about what are they rooting for and what is their dignity as a news program.  I can describe this documentary in one word and it is “Propaganda”.

          Al Jazeera, the largest Arab news network has took a very big responsibility during the war in Iraq. It also became an issue on how they present their news to the public and a question whether there is a propaganda they want to show behind their footage or images that we see whenever they’re delivering their news about the war in Iraq and United States. As an audience who watched the documentary I felt that Al Jazeera is not bias by on delivering their news because what they show was really happening. Some of the Americans where questioning the news program because of what they want to portray the Americans are doing. There’s this one incident in the documentary wherein some of the shots are most likely to strengthen the issues about them being stereotypical. Some of the incidents were in the headquarters in Quatar, Muslims headgear are undercontrol, always watch when President Bush gives a word to Sadamm Hussein. All these shots will eventually lead to war. On the other hand when the network’s senior producer Samir Khader talks about what’s his plan about the network, their openness as a country suddenly there are stereotypical images that shows the “Arab Streets” begin to fall down. There was this guy whom they interviewed that says “Al Jazeera has its own way on delivering news to people, example of this was they will interview a kid who is really victimized by the bombing of the United States and make them show that it is because of the war that’s going on.” So the result here was the blame is on them why the people are continuing to get mad on the war. Al Ja zeera is also observed that they love to show bloody , brutally killed, dead bodies in their shots and they are called “Osama Bin Laden’s mouthpeace” which is for me a bit unfair for them because I believe that in both ways they are still doing their job correctly.

            In school we are thought that if we give information and especially big news to people it is important that you are balance when it comes to criticizing or analyzing the issue because at some point you may be insensitive for what you’re saying and you might offend people in some ways. It is not new to us that in the field that we are in now we are prown to give comments and to take our sides on an issue but what’s important on this is that you have your own stand on something and when you say or write an article about a certain issue you should be able to defend it and you should be able to stand up for it whether it will be controversial or not. Misinformation can cause you a lot of trouble and that’s one of the biggest lessons that I’ve learn on watching the documentary “Control Room”. I give credits to the reporters who are in Al Ja Zeera and also on their Senior Producer who really stand up for their news program and defended it all throughout. I also salute the director of this documentary that finally opened our minds to the war between Iraq and United states and as a future media practioner    this will help me more about my ethics. Being journalist who’s trustworthy, passionate and dedicated to her work no matter what happens.