March 11th No BRB #2!

           Today we started class with Mr. Rivers usual monday talk to update the class on what is ahead of us during this week.  We received GREAT news that Be Reel Blog #2 is cancelled.  Some other news is that Mr. Rivers won’t be here at the end of the week on thursday.  While the substitute teacher is here we are going to review our last podcast so bring headphones on thursday!!! Friday, since it is a half day we will be holding off our last and final podcast until the next week.  We then talked about the Saturday Night Live skit between a fake Hillary Clinton and fake Donald Trump and spoke on the satire.  This is the list the class put together

Conservative:
- Trump relies on an emotional pull
-Trump is a hypocrite
-Trump is a racist
Liberal:
-Tries to appeal to the people as much as possible.
-Trying too hard to be friendly
-No opinion of her own, just gave people the answer they want to hear
-Fake answers
-Too confident

        The class then moved to listening to a Malcolm Gladwell podcast on the Satire Paradox.  This podcast featured comedian Stephen Colbert.  He speaks on Stephen Colbert as a blunt and crude person on the show but is a very nice and warm person before the show and not while live.  I found it a little impressive that he can be a completely different person during his talk show.  Mr. Rivers wanted the class to be able to have this quote in their notes as it explains the satire paradox:

MG: What does LaMarre finds when she studies audience reactions to a clip like this? She finds that the more liberal you are, the more you see Stephen Colbert as a liberal skewering conservatives; but the more conservative you are, the more you see Stephen Colbert as a conservative skewering liberals.
HL: So, essentially, they saw what they wanted to see. So the big takeaway here of this study was that this is what we would call motivated cognition or biased perception.

After the podcast we moved into the movie Thank You for Smoking.  Mr. Rivers wanted us to put down these two questions to keep in mind during the film. 
How does the film use satire to make arguments about the tobacco industry and/or the government’s attempts to control the tobacco industry?
How might the satire paradox affect the way audiences interpret this films arguments?
We then moved into our film, Thank you for Smoking.  Thank you for reading.