Topic Refinement

Our exercise in pitching our idea was an excellent prompt for defining our ultimate concept. In preparing the pitch, my partner, Kenya, and I were constinantly asking ourselves? Is that as clear and concise as it could be? Can we get it down even tighter? Does that sentence bring clarity, or confusion.
 
For our pitch, through the research and examples we looked at, we approached our pitch as posing questions. Ask the questions to the audience, have them think, and then solidify an answer. Because of this approach, Kenya and I were always questioning (seems to be a theme) whether our 'answers' were confusing the producers as to our final research question. This process of finalizing and critically reading what we planned to sell, not only made us almost obsessively familiar with the content and the questions for the pitch, but helped us refine the big, bad, important question that our podcast will revolve around.

The pure fear (let's be honest) that hits when you face presenting infront of your graders and peers kicks you (me at least) into high-gear to perfect my text. Kenya and I revised our research topic question seven, maybe eight times. Feel free to look into our evolution:

How is news affected by the age of journalism and parody news?

How is news affected by the dichotomous age of journalism and parody news?

(Here we realised we needed to be more specific is WHAT is being affected. I.e. our public opinion)
How is public opinion, which is shaped by the news, affected by the news journalism versus satircal journalism?

(Then we realised we wanted to specify our audience: not all public opinion, but a group)
What is shaping the new media generation's public opinion?

(Without further adieu...)
Where do college students get their news? How do the formal, traditional news broadcasting agencies, like CNN or CBC, compare to satirical news programs, such as Jon Stewart?

Thanks to this pitch, from now on when refining my topics, I will imagine I am selling the topic or outline and hone down my idea until it can be a clear and concise sentence or two.