The sincerest of apologies for the lack of posts. The wireless internet system over the residential lodges of uni has been apalling of late, and I haven’t really had much time to get to the library, what with uni starting again last week. Things have been somewhat hectic, to say the very least.

I’ve been trying to submit my blogging thesis from semester one of last year to a journal of some sort, online or otherwise, in some vain attempts to get it published. The problem is that it’s nearly 3000 words long, and not many publications will print something of that length. I’ll keep trying though.

One of my old tutors and dear, dear friends from last year and I have also hatched a plan to use uni to put together a pitch for my script, in a scheme to get it ready for submission by the end of June. Basically we’re using a creative assessment part of Screen and Sound Concepts to film a scene or two from my script, which can then accompany the pitch package. Add to this the fact that all the paperwork we do for the pitch can be submitted with my assignment for greater marks!

In one of my tutes this morning, we came across some of the many paradoxes associated with media law. Media ownership laws, cross-media legislation, among many other things. Should media ownership be allowed to conquer national borders? There was a great line in our textbook that said something about ‘the concept of national borders as being impermeable is now no longer feasible’ when it comes to the transference of information.

I defended the democratic ideals of ‘grassroots desktop publishing’ in my paper from first semester last year. And when it comes to foreign media ownership I feel much the same. Let the media fall into the hands of whoever it will. All it means is a different perspective, even if it’s an overseas perspective. The fact is that the public will always seek new opinions, new points of view. That’s the beauty of democracy.

Until next time…

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