[Part 2] This is what I wanted to study

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Back to revenue: more clicks mean more views means more money that can be charged from the advertisers. News companies will try to draw you to their content - I suppose this is common knowledge. The difference is with state funded television or radio broadcasts (I have not seen a state funded newspaper in my short experience), but these are minorities in the media world.

So, since the competition is fierce, not all companies can have the best journalists to investigate all current events timely and present the facts in a non-biased manner that's actually understandable for the common viewer/reader/listener. Audience tends to want the best and the fastest. Therefore, companies can decide to move towards yellow press methods:

Flashy Names CHEATING On Each other!!! 

RANDOM FUCKED UP SHIT IN A DIFFERENT COUNTRY!

A completely misguiding title to make the issue more interesting, yet misinterpreted by most readers!

And a person, who lives in a country where the popular mass media consists of portals having an "Ask an astrologist" section, will, apparently, go to these sites! If it wasn't for the society who is stupid enough to read the articles, this and this would not exist.

Therefore, someone who bitched about shitty articles (both from the same portal) twice in a couple of weeks, is a hypocrite and does not deserve anything better.

And then you get a situation where a whole class of journalism students in a university have not heard of an international headline story. I was in high school when I read this story and, honestly, was shocked. A rough translation:

...We get everything from the internet, the modern consumers of information explain to me. But in that case, how did they all miss the situation in France, where a Muslim killed three soldiers, then a rabbi, two children and another person in a Jewish school, then barricaded in his house and was shot himself after 30 hours as he opened fire against the police and tried to flee?

My vast knowledge of current news at that point consisted of diena.lv mobile version, BBC World Service broadcast and occasional visits to ir.lv. Three sources, and I knew disturbingly much about said case.

I've been repeating myself for a while now, so let me conclude with this metaphor.

If you only keep listening to European Hit Radio, you have no right to conclude that music is awful or all the same.
If you keep eating in fast food chains, you have no right to conclude food tastes horrible and makes you fat.
If you keep going to shitty mass media sites, you deserve nothing better.

[Part 1] This is what I wanted to study

Situation 1

Lecturer: "Many journalists fail to achieve these goals in their stories."
Student from back: "Yeah, that's why I'm not interested in news!"

Situation 2

A guy shares bullshit news stories from yellow press and concludes: "Not reading the news is still a good choice."

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With all my respect towards your personal choices, completely dissing the news is foolish. Radio and TV are available to everyone basically for free, and when you're using the internet, you have enormous amounts of free information. Most media outlets sustain themselves through advertising and you do not have to open your wallet to receive information. Therefore, the only limit of information intake is how much time do you want to dedicate.

If you are unable to do a basic filtering of what to read, watch or listen to, it is your fault and you will not be able to get the free AND quality content. Without news, you wouldn't know, who are the people that run your lives (politics on all levels), you wouldn't know about cultural development, you wouldn't know what happens outside your comfort circle, which is, at maximum, 50 people. Open up bbc.co.uk or ir.lv, or any other decent news webpage, and imagine that you would not know anything about the topics covered there. Fucking anyone could act on their wildest imaginations, nobody would be aware of that and society could not develop, since there would be zero connections. "But I get news when people share them on Facebook or 9gag," fuck you, those are either reposted news articles or wild and shallow interpretations of them. Is this so hard to understand?

"For my friends, who distribute 9gag links: I can't forbid you to eat shit, that is your right, but for this reason it is so much harder to love you." (Source)

And with this mediocre self-shot from my previous residence I will stop raging.

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one two fuck four

I don't want to go to sleep because there are all the things to do, for example, self-portraits. However, I shouldn't probably approach the 36 hour mark.

So here are two nightly pictures.

So here's what I struggle with

One thing that frustrates me is that non-specialists often discount my opinion because it does not agree with their preconceived notions, popular beliefs, or their individual observations.  To be clear, I don't expect anyone to believe what I tell them based solely on my authority - if I don't have evidence to back it up, you shouldn't agree with me.  And its perfectly possible for someone to have a good understanding of a subject and still disagree with me. But, often people don't acknowledge that authoritative evidence which contradicts their understanding of a subject could exist.  (Basically, I'm just jealous of physicists, because people are less likely to argue with them about physics than they are to argue with me about what I study. Although, I'm sure they get enough from people who believe quantum theory means homeopathy is true that I don't feel that bad.)

From Peter Leykam on quora.com

Achievements, for sure

Today I had a serious go at Premiere, since for the last week my collection of stop motion material has grown a lot. 3rd minute in, I overload the program and angrily close it. Zero progress.

Today I had a serious go at FL Studio, since I have to work out proper synths for the band. They all sound like shit, so I close everything without saving. Zero progress.

Today I tried to watch some films, but all are boring and Doctor Who is still incredible. Zero progress for the films, love towards Doctor increased.

Here's my July or August or whatever. Working with a tripod alone is so much better than whatever the assignments for school - no pressure from others, enough time to do the long setup and experiment around, equipment flaws are less visible. Homeworks with hi-key and composition might have been useful or whatever, but made me dislike photography for a while.

I don't believe in hangovers

"This wine will make your head hurt a lot."
A lot is an understatement. When I woke up at 8AM, I wanted to close the curtains and to open the window, because the light accelerated the headache and there was no air. But I was in way too much pain to actually get up, so I dreamed of opening the window and closing the fucking curtains about five or six times and then realized that, nope, just a dream.

My priorities have to be overlooked, and I don't think my body is able to cope with all the drinking and smoking and irregular sleeping.

Here's me being shocked at my own actions.

writers block

One of the major changes in my behavior was when I started to put my cigarettes in the coat's outer pocket rather than the inside one. 

As I was thinking about that statement, it sounded very cool, but there's no further comment, there's no explanation and there isn't a proper blog post. Will come back to this later.