Broadcast Project

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Magazine Project

It’s plagues every magazine cover across the country. It’s on every commercial of every channel you flip to. It’s on every billboard you see. It’s brought up at least once in every girl conversation. Both men and women are constantly criticized about it, especially celebrities. There are so many people across the country so obsessed with it, they’ll even cause harm to themselves trying to obtain it. Nowadays, there is no escaping it.

The epidemic I am referring is the pressure to be skinny. Women have this perception that if they do not have the ideal, stick-figured body, than they will be somehow less appreciated in society.

The number of women this pressure effects is alarming and, not to mention, deeply concerning. Plus, they way these vulnerable women try to achieve the “perfect” bodies is highly dangerous. According to the research group Anorexia Nervosa & Related Eating Disorders Inc., one out of every four college-aged women uses unhealthy methods of weight control including fasting, skipping meals, excessive exercise, laxative abuse, and self-induced vomiting.

The main cause of this sickness is low self-esteem, including the one with the “perfect” bodies.

Somehow our society has created a correlation between how we look and how we are accepted. Some people just want to be accepted. I can understand what it feels like to want to be accepted, or even noticed. Humans are social creatures, and we assume that by losing weight, hopefully, we can find that approval; we imagine that a thinner frame will somehow make us more socially accepted.

I’m not presuming that all fuller women don’t receive attention just because they are thick or that they don’t receive any attention at all, but the media attaches a stigma to gaining weight or being fuller. Women are glorified for losing weight and criticized when they gain it. As soon as a celebrity gains a few, the torment does not cease until the weight is gone.

And really, can you blame us? The thin representation is all that we see, and it’s affecting us. According to a study by the International Journal of Eating Disorders, due to the low exposure of thicker bodies in the media, women’s perceptions of how a woman’s body should look are being altered. Most models and celebrities are thinner. As a result to that low exposure, women find that a normal body is a thin body. The thicker and fuller women have no representation in the media, and therefore see their bodies as being abnormal or wrong.

What we as a society need to do is change the psyche. We need to represent women all types of bodies in more types of media. It alters the perception of a “normal” female body, since all body types are being represented

What has happened to our society that we let how other women look effect our self-esteem so badly? Vulnerable women are so easy to manipulate that one picture is all it takes to influence someone to lose weight, whether or not they need to.

We really should become a society of healthy people. I am not advocating for binge or eating whatever you want whenever you want. Health should be the most important thing. Regardless if you were thick or thin, the important thing is that you are healthy.

All my life, I have been petite; I am not very tall, and I am moderately active. During high school, my body began to full in, but I was and still am still pretty petite. However, a thin frame was never something I admired. Growing up, I always wanted curves. Foolishly, I felt that if I had a fuller body, it would make me more of a woman. Unless I completely alter my diet or get some type of plastic surgery that would make my body thicker, this is going to be me forever: a petite, young woman.

Now that I’m a little older and a little more confident, I realized self esteem is not about having a thick body or a thin body, it’s about respecting and accepting the body you were born with. It’s also about realizing that decent people—people that are worth being friends with—won’t worry about your exterior; they’ll be more concern with your personality.

So, if you go to the beach or the pool this summer, and you’re worried about walking around in a bathing suit, just remember: regardless if you have a thicker body or a thinner one, inside is what’s most important.

Broadcast Style Exercise

1. Northquest Airlines announced today that it is cutting its domestic fares by up to 49 percent for holiday travelers.

2. Northquest Airline’s C-E-O, Frank Dewitt, said—quote—“We like to think of it as a holiday gift to our customers.”

3. Discounts vary depending on travel dates. With the discounted, non-refundable fares, a passenger could travel round-trip between Boston and San Francisco for as little as 349 dollars.

4. Tickets must be purchased by July first for travel between November 20 and January fifth in the continental U-S.

Horse on Hwy. 17 Broadcast [revised]

[ANCHOR ON CAM]

AFTER BEING SEEN RUNNING ALONG HIGHWAY 17, A BELOVED HORSE FINALLY RETURNS HOME TO HIS OWNER.

A TWENTY-TWO YEAR OLD WHITE ARABIAN HORSE, STAR, FINALLY REUNITES WITH HIS OWNER, 10 YEAR OLD ATHENA MUZUMDAR [UH-THEE-NUH MOO-ZOOM-DAR], AFTER ESCAPING HIS SOUTH LOS GATOS CORRAL NEARLY TWO WEEKS AGO.

STAR WAS CAUGHT AT A RESIDENTIAL HOME ON KENT WAY AND WAS TAKEN TO THE SAN MARTIN ANIMAL SHELTER.

THE HUMANE SOCIETY WAS INITIALLY RELUCTANT TO RELEASE STAR TO MUZUMDAR [MOO-ZOOM-DAR] BECAUSE OF STAR’S THIN APPEARANCE. STAR’S CORRAL OWNER, SUZANNE CRISTALLO [KRIS-TAL-LOW], QUICKLY CONFIRMED THAT STAR’S WEIGHT WAS DUE TO REOCCURING HEALTH PROBLEMS AND NOT NEGLIGENCE.

APPARENTLY, STAR WAS AMONGST MANY CHARACTERS IN THE CORRAL.

A PONY BY THE NAME OF OREO [OR-EE-OH] IN THE CORRAL, MANAGED TO OPEN THE METAL GATE THAT LEAD OUTSIDE THE CORRAL’S PERIMETERS, SAYS CRISTALLO [SU-ZANN KRIS-TAL-LOW].

STAR IS SAFE AT HOME AND IN GOOD SPIRITS WITH MUZUMDAR [MOO-ZOOM-DAR].

Richmond Broadcast [revised]

[ANCHOR ON CAM]

POLICE OFFICIALS ARE CURRENTLY INVESTIGATING THE CIRCUMSTANCES THAT CAUSED THE DEATHS OF TWO MEN AFTER AN AMTRACK TRAIN STUCK THEM LAST WEDNESDAY IN RICHMOND.

AMTRACK SPOKESWOMAN VERAE GRAHAM CONFIRMED THE VICTIMS WERE HIT NEAR THE INTERSECTION OF CARLSON BOULEVARD AND OHIO AROUND ONE-FORTY IN THE AFTERNOON. THE AMTRACK DID NOT REOPEN UNTIL FIVE-THIRTY LATER THAT AFTERNOON.

BOTH MEN HAVE YET TO BE IDENTIFIED UNTIL FURTHER INVESTIGATION TAKES PLACE.

Topical Blog Post: Childless

Childless

“You don’t wanna have kids?! Do you wanna grow up alone? What if you’re old and you die, don’t you wanna have someone to take care of you?!” exclaimed my coworker Beatrice.

Oprah has not had a child. I do not think she is lonely or incomplete.

I never correlated not having kids with a life of loneliness and despair, and without marriage. Even when I pass, I still never figured my life would have been lonely or miserable because I did not have kids.

Obviously, I do not want to have kids in the future. It is not solely because I’m not good with kids. I just do not see my life as a parent. I do not think I have it in my heart and soul to be a mother a child. Children are a huge responsibility, and I do not think I am ready for that…ever.

My mother always told me, “You’ll grow out of it. You’re just really young right now to even think of having children.”

Maybe she’s right. Maybe I am just too young to even think about having children, and that is why I feel I will never want any. Maybe I will “come around”. However, I really do not think that is the case.

When I was younger, I never liked playing “the Mom,” who cooked, cleaned, and tended to her children all day. I know mothers today do not even do that now, but I still do not see my life as “the Mom”.

I know, especially right now, I am not mature enough to be a parent. I would not want to have children (or a child) unless I was ready. My own parents instilled a great sense of family in me, and I do not think that it is something I can give to my own offspring.

I commend all parents for being able to care for a child. I see parenting has the toughest job in the world. It is something so many people around the world struggle with. I acknowledge that.

I do want to achieve a lot of things in my life, but having a family is not one of them, and that should be okay. I plan to live a life with my husband, and that is it. I do not think I’ll end up miserable and alone as people say.

Two Feature Leads: Squirrelly Incident [for broadcast; revised]

A SQUIRREL WAS THE CAUSE FOR DISRUPTING A MASSIVE MANHATTAN TRANSIT COMMUTES YESTERDAY MORNING.

THE SQUIRREL TIED UP THE METRO-NORTH COMMUTER RAILROAD POWER LINES, INTERFERING WITH NEARLY 47-THOUSAND COMMUTERS FROM RETUNRING HOME.

IT APPARENTLY SNUCK ITS WAY INTO THE TRAIN’S MAJOR POWER LINES AND YANKED ELECTRICAL WIRES RESULTING IN AN ELECTRICAL POWER SURGE, SAYS METRO-NORTH SPOKESWOMAN DONNA EVANS.

MAINTENANCE CREWS HAD THE TRAINS RUNNING AGAIN BY EARLY THIS MORNING.