ahhh yes i looooooovvvve fridays! another long week is over! and now i can go party to be quite honest! work was super crazy today and i must say i waited on 3 bearded ladies today at wegmans. JUST SAYING! and it is very springlike today and i love it! people are buying all kinds of spring flowers and the snow is melting and its just one step closer to me being able to wear my flip flops again! yay! little things make me happy, cant you tell? next week i have to write a paper about iraq and afghanistan, which is going to lead to some prettttty heated discussions in my communication and society class next week! people just really need to wake and up and start to think about what is going on in the world. i cant stress that enough.
so we are still at ECC in my little diddy (about jack and diane….sorry) One of my required classes was introduction to mass media, and we covered the basics. we touched on every peice of the media. oh yeah, this is with my teacher, Gina Christiano. She used to work for an NBC affiliate in roch-cha-cha. one of our projects included a Public Relations Crisis Communications presentation. When we did the unit on PR, it really sparked my interest. I could deal with people on a regular basis and not one day would be the same. I had proved with my papers that I was a strong writer. so i really felt it was a perfect fit. PR is all about persuasion and an image. and to me, it seems kind of superficial. BUT i think if you are making a difference (and a good one!) then you are doing something pretty great. So that is why I became interested in community relations. persuasion is a very powerful tool that people dont always seem to recognize! i also took a writing for media class with Gina. we had to write scripts for broadcast and tv (which didnt interest me!) but writing press releases and putting together media kits was what i really enjoyed doing. so i felt that public relations would be a step in the right direction for me after i graduated from ECC. and let me tell you, writing for the newspaper and writing for PR are very different. PR writing has a purpose, to persuade and inform. It is objective, where as journalism is not. (unless you are watching FOX news, but whatever) None the less, i think i had finally found my niche!
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