Wednesday May 24

Wednesday, May 24 Blog Post
My Article

     In this article it talks about the United State's opinion on Donald Trump. More specifically, his recent meeting with the Pope. The author says, "You either love him or you hate him. And you see absolutely everything through that love-or-hate-Trump lens. If you hate him, you are ready to believe every negative thing on the Internet that even touches him. If you love him, you see only the positives." During his meeting with Pope Francis the media got many pictures of Trump and the Pope together. But only two of them were really focused on. One of them was taken when Ivanka, Melania, and the Pope were all looking a little melancholy but Trump had a big grin on his face. This picture was absorbed by all of the "Trump-haters" and was used to claim that the Pope didn't like his meeting with Trump. Another picture that was taken of Pope Francis and Trump shows the two getting along quite well and smiling at each other. This picture was used in opposite of the first and showed how well the two were getting along and that the Pope enjoyed Trumps company. The author then goes on to say that living in a society where we "cherrypick" the news to make our side of the argument stronger means that we are not in a good place.
     This relates to Ap Government because it shows the medias coverage of politics. In class we have talked about how the media covers certain issues and what kind of things the media covers. We have also talked about how the media acts as a gate keeper; in which publishers can choose what subjects they would like report.
     I think that this is a real issue in this day and age. Since the media controls almost the entire populations source of information, they have a massive amount of influence. If we can't trust the media to give us all of the facts and not just show us something to help their side, then I think we should do something to fix that. If the government is doing something illegally or they are violating someones rights, instead of someone who supports the government explaining to me why it was ok, we need someone to explain what happened and what they are going to do to fix it.