Ideas for my College Radio Trailer

I have decided to write my blog about life at a college radio station. As sports director of U92 radio at WVU I have a first-hand look at what life is like working at a college radio station.

I am going to shoot some of my own video using people who work at U92--specifically on the sports staff. My focus is going to be how difficult it is for young broadcasters at this level and higher levels struggle to break into the field.

I am unsure from what sources I am going to borrow from. I will probably use any pictures and clips I can find of professional broadcasters such as Gus Johnson, Jack Buck, Sam Rosen, and Bob Wischuzen.

The video I shoot will come from the radio station, on site at a game U92 broadcasts, and some personal footage as well. This trailer is going to tell the story about how difficult it is for young broadcasters and journalists have it as they try to break into the career. The theme of the trailer will be also how when you do break through to the professional ranks the jobs are low-paying and in areas of the country where it's hard to get noticed.

I will use Final Cut Pro for this.

Lethem's Ecstasy of Influence Hits Home

Jonathan Lethem is an accomplished fiction, short story, and non-fiction author. Lethem has also freelanced for magazines such as Rolling Stone. Lethem and I share a similar passion for the music of Bob Dylan. In his essay "The Ecstasy of Influence" Lethem takes note of the industry of borrowing and influence--which he in essence describes as a certain kind of plagiarism. Dylan borrows, or pays homage, in many of his scores of studio albums. Lethem basically says that his stories should not be pirated and stolen, but that his ideas can be used to influence something original.

In essence Lethem says that everything is plagiarism because there is nothing original anymore. Ideas have to come from somewhere. They have to be influenced by something. Lethem says "You, reader, are welcome to my stories. They were never mine in the first place, but I gave them to you. If you have the inclination to pick them up, take them with my blessing."

Lethem is granting permission for people to use his ideas. He accepts that people have influences and they like paying homage to those influences. Instead of attacking those people like his idol Salinger did, Lethem simply asks that the dues he is owed are paid by those looking for fresh ideas. Lethem is essentially changing the connotation of plagiarism from negative to positive in his article.