For the past several months, President Donald Trump has made it clear that he is not a big fan of the media. Journalists have been dealing with constant backlash from the President, who claim that journalists report fake news, or withhold news from Americans. Although present day journalists deal with this everyday, how do future journalists, currently in school, feel about this? What are they going to do when they enter the workforce as journalists in a few short years? Find out in my commentary piece on how journalism students are more motivated than ever to prove Donald Trump wrong. My piece is free, and timely since Trump has been continuously calling the media fake via Twitter and speeches. Feel free to check it out here: http://www.prx.org/pieces/204102-journalism-students-are-more-motivated-than-ever-u
Countless people have criticized Fox News and CNN for political bias, but recently outrage to media bias has resulted in lasting negative consequences far beyond years prior. Donald Trump has convinced a significant amount of his base to distrust the mainstream media, as evidenced by a Quinnipiac poll that reveals 5 in 10 likely voters believe the media is biased against him (Harper). This number jumps to an incredible 9 in 10 with Republicans. Trump supporters have refused to view media they perceive to be biased, even going so far to chant “CNN sucks!” at a rally in Pennsylvania (“10,000 Trump Supporters”). The resentment of a few news outlets affects not only those news outlets, but how the dissenters perceive the world as a whole. When
Introduction: Media bias is a real issue. No matter what news source you are observing, everyone is going to have their own opinion about a news topic. In order to make sure that we are receiving the truth, we must make sure that we are doing our own research prior to making conclusions. My goal is to inform you about media bias so that you can learn ways to identify the truth rather than what journalists want you to believe. I also want to show you the influence that media bias has on young American teenagers.
Technological and media revolutions have freed journalistic duties to anyone with access to the Internet. Citizens can now practice their own news judgment. The emphasis can no loner be on who is a journalist but rather how journalism is performed. Thus, journalists have an even more important task of delivering the truth. Williams believes that journalists should be god-fearing, but fails to mention other values journalists should have.
Clay Shirky who wrote Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable (1993) argues that society doesn’t need newspapers society needs journalism to save society. Shirky supports this argument by giving a historical background to the problems newspapers face and how the problems have developed over time and the solutions society has came up with. The blogger concludes that in order for journalism to go farther new models must be created in place of past molds. Shirky directs this blog toward the current and future generations in attempt to motivate new models and methods of journalism.
On November 8, 2016 the US election took place. The two front runners, the Democratic nominee Hilary Clinton and the Republican nominee, Donald Trump went neck to neck in the presidential race. On this frightening night, millions of people watched America’s worst nightmare unfold right in front of their own eyes. Donald J. Trump the islamophobic, xenophobic, misogynistic, homophobic, sexist, racist bigot defeated Hilary Clinton and became the 45th President of the United States of America. Donald Trump shouldn’t have even been nominated to run for president.
He believes that the capitalist colonization of the digital world has led to this collapse of professional-quality journalism as a result of the further commercialization of journalism. In recent years, investigative journalism has been declining and media companies have shifted away from it and settled for repeating prepackaged messages. It is difficult for real journalism to exist when its revenue is based on advertisement. McChesney argues that journalism should be considers as public goods and that we should create non-commercial forms of journalism and non-profit media. One of the “darkest episodes of American journalism history” was the invasion of Iraq based on the U.S. administration’s claims that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. These claims went unchallenged by the media because of the lack of investigative journalism, McChesney believes. Furthermore, he ends with bold proposals to reform journalism and the entire media. He proposes a strict regulation of advertising and limitations on ownership of broadcast media and expansion of nonprofit and publicly supported journalism. I agree with McChesney about the decline of quality journalism and I believe reforms to media must happen. However, I am uncertain how this would be possible with all the control these wealthy corporations, and their partners, have over the media. It will need a huge
Trump is going to lose and he is going to lose badly. Many Republicans are of the belief that the polls are wrong, that the race is much closer than we think. The truth is Donald J. Trump will not be President; he will not even get close. From the second he accepted the nomination this was a foregone conclusion. Trump has failed to establish the necessary infrastructure in key swing states and has done everything in his power to alienate independents and conservative Republicans like me.
On January 27, 2017, Trump passed a law banning immigrants and citizens from seven countries. The countries include Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen, nations composed of a Muslim majority. Many people believe Trump’s Muslim country ban was not sufficient in performing its rightful task of keeping terrorists out of the country. Trump’s ban was not necessary due to the problem the situation causes, such as its sudden implication, deterioration of presidential image, and overall effectiveness of the ban.
one thing Trump should not be elected for the following. Some believe that trump is a good businessman and he is but he does not have what mit takes to to be the president.
Thats definitely a sentence that I (and many other people) thought they would never hear or say, but it is now the reality. While this seems to leave our country in a divide, some of us happy and excited, some of us fearful and angry, and others just uneasy, it is what is it is.
Donald Trump was born on June 14, 1946. He was raised in New York city. Trump was going to school at Ken-Forest School, when he was 13 he was kicked out due to behavior problems. After that Trump enrolled at a Military School in New York called the New York Military Academy. When Trump was at the military school, he was ranked as one of the highest officers.Trump attended Fordham University in New York for two years, beginning in August 1964. He then transferred to the Wharton School of Finance and commerce at the University of Pennsylvania, which offered one of the few real estate studies departments in United States academia. Trump graduated with a bachelor in Econ. Trump later invested in his father's company and It paid off well, as he
Last but not least the New Yorker article by John Cassidy “The Election May Be Over, But Trump’s Blow Up is Just Starting” talks about how Trump biggest support Fox News own Sean Hannity cancelled his interview with Donald Trump putting the biggest conservative news station in the world against Donald Trump. After the story aired Donald Trump was showed to behind Clinton by nine points based on a Bloomberg poll (Cassidy, 2016). Liberal platforms use this story to show how backward and sexist Donald Trump is. A trend that was shown in the New Yorker and the Washington Post articles that there is a divide in the Republican Party.
The history of journalism in the United States has spanned from the first colonist crossing the Atlantic Ocean to today’s mass media. Even before we were a country we had printers and journalists writing and printing stories for the people. Looking back, we can divide journalism history into different time periods and see how news reporting developed over time. Some of these time periods include the Colonial Period which spanned from when the first Pilgrims came to America in the mid 1600’s till the 1760’s. Other periods include the Revolution period which picked up from the colonial period till the early 1780’s. The period of Westward Expansion lasted from the 1800 to the 1830’s, then there was the Civil War Period which spanned from the 1840’s till the 1860’s. Finally, the Interpretative Period which lasted from 1930’s and continues to today. Looking back at these time periods we can see what was considered “news” and what was “newsworthy”, the dominate issues of the periods, and how far we have come as a society from those issues.
It was through this course that I realized that journalism was in fact alive and well, it was changing with the technology and the times, and now more than ever it matters. Journalism matters because of the journalist’s duty to the public. In many ways democracy depends on journalist. It is the journalists who inform the public on the “political environment,” report on the “actions and decisions of elected officials,”
In America we value the freedom of the press. The press is the one place where most Americans go to get educated on issues facing their community, state, and most of all nation. Everyone knows that the media plays a major role in Americans' lives; however their role of gatekeeper is not completely understood. The press decides which issues to report and how to report them. In order to improve the nation and world, the media should present their unbiased findings to allow people to make up their own minds. However, this is not the case. The media often shows its bias. Their widespread exposure enables them to communicate their ideas to the public, regardless of