Mass Media's Role in Politics

Mass media is centered around social media. In result since around the 2006 election social media sites have impacted politics in numerous ways. President Trump uses twitter in particular as a way to get his opinions out to the wold.  Trump recently tweeted this out, in regard to claims of fake news surrounding him and his presidency.  The Hill  published a very enlightening article covering this tweet. Fake News is a new phrase and it seems to have surrounded President Trump. This is leaving the public confused. It is very arguable that this is hurting the American Democracy. Media is supposed to inform the public and the only thing it is doing is confusing the public.  President Trump states that the media has lost credibility, with almost half the voters thinking that media makes up stories about him.  The Hill quotes Trump saying:  "Network news has become so partisan, distorted and fake that licenses must be challenged and, if appropr...

President has brought the term of "fake news" into the light even more than it previously was. He is known for claiming that CNN is notorious for fake news, which I discussed in my previous blog. HE has commented and twetted on the fact the CNN is about fake news.     This is an example of how far this has gone. CNN and trump have a feud that is centered around fake news. Some people question if fake news is a term that is a new fad surrounding the news. It is no secret that the media has been harder on President Trump than it has been on any other president.  Is this because of fake news? Does the lack of credibility of news confuse people into not knowing what to believe? It seems that Trump blames the majority of the negative stigma on fake news surrounding his presidency.  This is still debatable, because fake news is such a new term. WE have not caught up to what exactly fake news it, or how to handle it. However, this has not stopped President...

As my blog thus far has shown, fake news is an issue in todays media. However there are debates about this term and what comes along with it. Fake news is till in the beginning stages, and we are still figuring how to control it, or if it is really a problem. In  The Hill  there is a very heated debate between Gorka, who is sided with Trump, and CNN"s Anderson Cooper. This debate is concerning fake news, the content of this article really highlights the main points and problems that come along with fake news. Gorka is accusing CNN's Cooper of producing fake news in order to get more views. Gorka states that he "knows that they was sensational coverage for their ratings so their corporate sponsors and owners will have more money, but that' s not media, that's not reportage, it's just fake news." This quote summarizes one of the main problems with media these days and fake news. Media and reporters do not report for the truth, or the real story, they rep...

Fake news is a new term that was coined around the 2016 election. This is the time that social media stuck its foot into the political world and created controversy that we are still debating today. There are so many questions that float around about fake news, because it is not something that we have had to time to grasp the concept of much less control. Media and the internet are growing faster than the law can follow, it hard to know what impacts fake news has without large studies on it. There are debates that discuss if fake news is a thing, and if it really has any impact on media or if it is just a phrase that is floating around media outlets. This site Debating Matters  gives insight on how fake news influence things like the election, and why fake news should be filtered out like Facebook  has done. This site discusses how fake of hoax headlines out preform real news in the time of heightened media usage. It is commented that it seems like these untrue stories c...