Here I will give a review of good articles that I find during the week for my COM 358, specialized writing class.

Tuesday, April 24, 2007

Techy Bible: divine invention

I found an article online from the Chicago Tribune's Religion section that talked about the Bible being completely recorded onto CDs. It also mixed in parts of a business story about the Christian market.

The lead starts by painting a picture of one producer, and his quandary with finding a perfect person to record the voice of Satan. It uses expressions to draw the reader in and make it more comical, such as "Finding the perfect Jesus" and "making a deal with just the right devil has turned out to be harder than hell". It briefly describes the project, and then returns to a quote about experimenting with the part of Satan. I think picking this theme back up keeps the readers' interest. The next section is a little background about the size and power of the Christian market. It is interesting how they mix topics like religion, entertainment and business. Although the story was focused on several aspects of the product, I only saw potential impact "this is going to be huge!" as opposed to real reactions from Christians who would buy the CDs. Are they really excited about it because they think their children would listen to the Bible on CDs? Why would consumers want to buy this instead of just reading the Bible? I didn't get those questions answered. I would also like to have seen a tie-back to the role of Satan as a clincher for a sense of completion.

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