When we had our meeting about our proposal drafts, we briefly discussed the fact that each member of our group happened to have chosen to write about the media. When I first realized this myself, I was a little concerned that my proposal wasn’t unique. I had that reaction of “Oh, great. My paper is going to be just like everyone else’s.” After the initial panic wore off, I wised up. The fact is, it’s not at all surprising that we all chose to write about the media. When we turn on the TV, the news is on. When we walk down the street, most of us take a glance at the day’s paper and read the headlines on the front page. It pervades every area of our life, and in the US, much of the news centers around government, and therefore DC as well.

I think the movies we have watched in class thus far probably also had something to do with it. Both of them focused on the bad side of the media and prompted us to reflect on what we had seen. I suppose the point for writing this is to say that the media is a HUGE topic, and I definitely think each of our papers are specific enough that they may not coincide at all, and I’m relieved to not be concerned about it any longer.