Sorry for the lapse in blog posts. I graduated on Dec. 18 and took some time off to be with my family. (I'm lucky to have a job, e-mail me if you want to know where)

Being in school kept me too poor and busy to see a lot of movies. I finally saw 2012 tonight (I guess I should say spoiler alert, but the movie came to theaters so long ago that I struggled to find a showing). I should probably start this post off by saying I love disaster movies, the worse the better. 2012 fit the bill perfectly. California broke off and slid into the ocean, Africa was the only continent left and the last line of the movie was about bed wetting. So, what does this have to do with journalism? Through out the whole film people were looking to broadcast news to help them understand what was happening. Most of the time the TV station only stopped covering the crisis when it was wiped out.

The film made me think of a lot of things.
--I hope the end of the world doesn't happen soon, but if it does I want to cover it.
--While we may fear that people don't care about the news anymore the public still turns to us in times of crisis.

Just a tad bit of food for thought courtesy of Hollywood. By the way, I still liked the Godzilla movies better.