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 * A**. By considering your answers to the above, give two important characteristics that mass media products have in common:
 * 1) - **Useful** **details**
 * 2) - **A relation to what is important, current events or issues, or entertainment**

Why do you use it? **Television news (specifically CNN). I use it to keep up with the political debates taking place and the upcoming election discussions.** **I care about what the issues are and how our future president or any other leader plans to deal with it to help the citizens. It's also a nice way to converse with my parents since we're never together all at once.**
 * B**. Name one mass media product that you consume regularly at least once a week.


 * C**. Is there any media product that you feel you could not live without? If so, say what it is and why it is so important to you. **Yes, there is a mass media product I could not live without.** **I could not live without the exhibitions of photographs. This is because I like experiencing what other people feel is important to them and how they show the masses. They do it creatively and in a way that is entirely mysterious and confusing to everyone but themselves. It is fun to try and decipher what the meaning is and how it relates to me. They understand that we have problems and it's an example of venting that I enjoy- or it troubles them and they want people to know. Art is important to me since many of my relatives are artists and it's how they make others happy.**


 * D**. How do you think that media influences the way in which you live your life? Give examples of this. **Media influences how I live my life because if the newspapers and television hadn't called America "the land of opportunity", I would be living in India. Also, if there wasn't Facebook or Skype my family would be paying bills for long distance phone calls. Another media influence is the movies because it is a great way to interact with my friends since we go to different schools. I have been learning how to make different types of resumes to help me when I apply to a high school, college, or job.**


 * E.** Complete the following Media Daily Diary
 * || **Print** ||  || **TV** ||   || **Radio** ||   || **Phone** ||   || **eReader** ||   || **Computer** ||   || **other**? ||   ||
 * || item || time || item || time || item || time || item || time || item || time || item || time || item || time ||
 * **Day 1** || book || 2 hrs. || MOR and CNN || 1 hr. and 1 hr. || 93.3 and 101.5 || 25 mins. and 15 mins. || none || 0 || none || 0 || laptop || 1 hr. || none || 0 ||
 * **Day 2** || book || 1 hr. || MOR || 1 hr. || 93.3 || 20 mins. || none || 0 || none || 0 || none || 0 || none || 0 ||
 * **Day 3** || book || 3 hrs. || MOR || 2 hrs. || 101.5 || 10 mins. || none || 0 || none || 0 || none || 0 || none || 0 ||
 * **Total Time** ||  || 6 hrs. ||   || 5 hrs. ||   || 70 mins. ||   || 0 ||   || 0 ||   || 1 hr. ||   || 0 ||