How is the media, biased, more towards progressive-liberal values, conservative values or in both directions depending on the specific media outlets you may access? I believe before we can go directly into how the media biased, we must first know what it means. Media bias is a political bias in journalistic reporting, in programming selection, or in mass communications media. In today’s society, it has become normal to witness or read about an elected government official being ridiculed by our mainstream
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The electoral college serves as vital tool in the presidential election process. Since the early days of our history, we have had a federalist-republican form of government with the electoral college helping decide the presidency. It was created in the early days of the constitutional convention of 1787, so as to limit uneducated voters power in the election,and to leave the vote into the hands of informed people, and still remains part of our system today. The electoral college functions as so,
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people should not let their beliefs interfere with the Anthem. For example, these people are protesting during the anthem, however the National Anthem still represents freedom and this country still holds that up. As shown in the selection “After Trump Blasts N.F.L.” the authors state “Don’t appled teams and players who don’t respect the anthem, they can exercise their beliefs a different way.”(qtd. in Hoffman, Mather, & Fortin). This shows how players should find a solution to solve their racism
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as the president himself to which he has branded these gang members as “animals.” CNN and The New York Times have commented on the situation: CNN explaining Trump’s attempts to rid the nation of MS-13 members, while The New York Times described how Trump has exaggerated false claims regarding MS-13 deportation numbers. This current spectacle relates to Leo Chavez’s Latino Threat Narrative in the sense that the gang and criminal activity demonstrated by MS-13 is being associated with any person who
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considering Donald Trump, for Commencement speaker. How can the great Notre Dame community endorse these people who have consistently lied and exhibited varying degrees of disregard for the inclusiveness and love that was preached by Jesus and has been preached by our current beloved Pope? The Catholic endorsement of the anti-LGBT rhetoric is undermining the message of love and inclusiveness that should be sent around the world. The Catholic endorsement of the policies of President Trump and his administration
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actions was still confined in my head. Clearly, I couldn't let these ideas go to waste. However, how could I portray Joseph Stalin's absurdity and his lack of knowledge of others? Immediately I thought of someone that is analogous to Stalin, Donald Trump. Hence I had finally found the perfect cure for my problem. I had to do a comic, for with a comic I could simply draw my opinion of the most ludicrous man the world has seen. Chiefly, I wanted to make a comic to show the astonishing comparison between
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fact it could potentially be a tragic move for the United States due to the immense price the nation will have to pay to build President Trumps desired wall. The actual cost to produce a gigantic concrete wall as well as hiring around 5,000 new employees to defend the border could cost as much as about 25 billion(http://money.cnn.com/2017/01/25/news/economy/trump-mexico-border-wall-cost/). That is a gargantuan amount of money the American people would have to pay and after Mexico's president stood
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doesn’t want to offend anyone. Buddy: Buddy thinks that our new president is a very good choice. He thinks that because Trump likes sugar and so does he. He likes candy, candy canes, candy corns, and sugar. Trump was his first pick purely because he likes sugar too.
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so you could keep living the dream. They gave you your money back and treated you as an equal. For example, in the past decade and some change, they've been pushing "Trickle Down Economics." The thing that didn't work once, so we'll try it again. Trumps tax plan reminds me exactly of Bush's. You chop those
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The Struggle with Maintaining Healthcare for Americans I will discuss the struggles with maintaining affordable healthcare for Americans. Affordable healthcare has been a controversial political issue for many years. Members of both political parties have been divided on this issue and unable to settle on a solution that could provide affordable healthcare to all Americans. My purpose for writing this paper is to bring awareness to the complexities of the American healthcare system and the costs
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