Blog 10!

Donald Trump running for President was already a heated argument when he declared. I think the thing that really set people into hating Donald was his proposed plan to “build a wall between The USA and Mexico” to keep illegal aliens from coming into our country. This topic seemed to light the media on fire and everyone was talking about it all at once.

           

            For my “Conservative” website I chose to analyze the story about the wall that Fox News did. They decided to put out a story that was more informative than interesting to me to be honest. They said specified details such as having 50 foot automated gates for vehicles and pedestrians. The fact that the wall would reach 30 feet high, cover 1,000 miles and cost close to $15 billion dollars to make this monolith of a wall our President is calling for. It is almost like Fox purposefully did not take a stance on this topic. They know if they said anything about this idea it would undermine the President and that is not what Fox wants. Fox wants to paint the best possible picture of Donald Trump they can because he is their candidate. My favorite part of this story was that they were not afraid to quote Donald on his very carefully chosen words “Big, beautiful wall”.

 

            On the other hand, I chose the BBC for my “Liberal” news site, their coverage of the wall is much different than Fox. They went into detail about who would be paying for the wall, the effect is would have to the nature. The increase of taxes and tariffs that would need to happen for Mexico to pay and how incredibly massive this project would be to complete. This story gives the reader a very strong feeling of opposition to Trump. Other than blaming humans for single handedly killing animals and ecosystems everywhere, they talk about “not standing with” Trumps pledge for his beautiful wall.

 

            The “Biased” story I chose was done on Eagle Rising and it was titles “Donald Trump is right- We need to build a wall”. If that isn’t biased I’m not entirely sure if we have the same definition of the word. The article does a good job of dialing it back in the end though. It calls Donald a “Showman” admits to many of his faults and even says that he’s gaining popularity despite him being a jerk. This article is different because frankly states that supporting Trump is continuously becoming more popular and it even tells you to vote who you want, and that God is our only hope in the end. It seems like this article was extremely religious and very patriotic while simultaneously explaining to readers than it understands that Donald Trump may not be the best choice for office; but he’s what we have.

 

            The media is the reason for all of these new stories being generated. Not just social media either, all types of media which is a very broad spectrum of communication. We live in a hyper analyzed and over reported world where things that would genuinely matter to people are swept under the rug while we see things that are inherently meaningless. Depending on where you look to for your news you can get a completely different story about the same situation. I would pitch stories about how I can make a difference without spending billions of dollars and reform the system as opposed to the people in the system.