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Responses to Opposing Arguments Equipment ADD CITATIONS The NFL remains in the spotlight regarding their commitment and contribution to players’ safety. In recent years, the league has been under immense pressure to take the issue of brain injuries more seriously. Initiatives of $20 million in 2015 and $100 million in 2016 have been announced by the NFL to be directing towards diagnosing traumatic injury and developing advanced materials and technology that will prevent head injuries. Riddell, the largest helmet manufacturer and the official helmet provider for the NFL, is introducing its newest helmet, the SpeedFlex. The new attribute of a cantilever allows the helmet to remain flex while maintaining an overall stiffness. It also uses a ratcheting system that locks the helmet into place and a facemask that assists in shifting the force away from the head. The SpeedFlex was tested in several locations and early results were said to be positive. Windpack, a helmet technology development company, incorporates Crash Cloud Technology, which involves a series of vents and springs producing self-recovering airbags, designed to absorb the force of a hit and effectively disperse that force to…

The average NFL game lasts about three hours and twelve minutes due to the commercials, timeouts, and reviewing plays. These issues make it difficult to watch a three hours NFL game when the ball is only in play for eleven minutes. My solution to these issues is a microchip in the football that measures where the ball is on the field at all time. The tracking chip is called IT(Information Technology)Football, since the ball is being tracked it would be easier to determine first downs because…

Super Bowl 50 had the third largest audience of any television broadcast in the history of television, with only Super Bowl 49 and Super Bowl 48 having larger audiences. But how did the NFL grow to become this popular? There appear to be many factors in the constant growth of the popularity, power and profits of the NFL since the 1970s. Some of these factors include Monday Night Football, new technologies providing new ways to draw fans and the NFL’s monopoly on professional football. The…

Direct competitors As stated above, there are a lot of companies involved in the news industry. The six biggest and the main companies involved are: GE, News Corp, Disney, Viacom, Time Warner, and CBS. These companies utilize different branded news networks to reach out to customers all over the globe. They have print media through large newspaper firms, televised news media through both national, world, and local news networks, and online published media through various websites like a…

Originally titled, It’s Messy, The Mindy Project is an original program created by and starring Mindy Kaling, commissioned by NBC due to her success as a writer, actor, and executive producer on their hit show The Office, which was reaching the end of its run. The network ultimately passed on the pilot due to the female-lead heavy programming schedule of that particular season, which included, Whitney, The New Normal, Save Me, and Parks & Recreation (Hibberd). Once released the program was…

exploded, but due to the lack of knowledge it still resulted in Americans wanting to go to war, according to Eric Foner, a history professor at the University of Columbia. b. If media corruption is allowed to continue it could impact our lives on an even more drastic level, including the collapse of modern society. i. An example of this was when the democrats thought they were easily going to win the 2016 presidential election because the majority of media was predicting their candidate…

politics, they must be given neutral information. In an interview with Bernard Goldberg by John Stossel, the former reporter of CBS News who published a book in 1996 called “Bias” explains how media distorts the news. In the interview, Goldberg also explains how just the publication of his book snatched his work. Goldberg related a little story where a call to his boss changed everything. They were good friends. Goldberg's boss promised him to be his friends at all times, no matter…

Television has long been considered as one of the most prominent aspects of American culture. Since its nascency, the business of television has grown to and transformed itself in many ways. One aspect that has always stayed the same however, is the stronghold of network television. As the industry continues to develop in a myriad of ways, specifically when it comes to technology, the main networks remain dominant in the ratings. ABC, CBS, FOX, and NBC, consistently lead in primetime ratings…

people rely on the most. The Internet can cover all ways of delivering the news: through a text, audio and video. Despite reporting news, media is also used by people to share their opinion on something. In connection with all elections, this is a hugely important use of the press. An extend on traditional ways of delivering the news are weblogs. Bloggers write down their opinion on recent issues and news events and others respond on them. That’s how online discussions can arise. To get back…

TV Series Review: Empire “Empire’s are not built in a day but this one was created in one season. Writer and Producer Lee Daniels has once again out done himself with his creativity and adaption of his new hit series Empire which first aired on FOX news last spring. Daniels directed and produced many other hit movies such as Precious and The Butler which won several awards for its outstanding production and outstanding performance by the cast. Empire, a new television series created by…