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Response to Marjorie May's Blog: Response to Marjorie May's Blog

Response to Marjorie May's Blog: Response to Marjorie May's Blog

I really enjoyed reading Marjorie's blog because she talked about an aspect in journalism that can be overlooked sometimes, populist and elitist media. She first stated that she thought that the Courier-Journal was a populist news organization. She followed her statement by explaining what populist and elitist media is. Then gave an example of populist articles she found in the Courier-Journal, when doing this it made it easier to understand her train of thought and made me think of other news organizations that may be populist too.
 After that Marjorie tells us that she believes that the Courier-Journal is targetting older people, the evidence she uses to back up her claim is that the ads that they put in are mostly from medicine and eyeglasses companies, which are things that old people tend to need rather than younger people. I strongly agree with her on this, just looking at the ads used in newspapers, TV shows, and other various news organizations can tell you a lot about the audience that they are trying to attract. Reading this helped me realize that I can also look at the ads put in the WLKY's TV programs to see what audience they are trying to attract.  Overall I really liked the points that Marjorie made. 

 http://marjoriesfirstblog.blogspot.com/2018/10/cj-populist-media.html    

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