Pushing The Agenda: News Outlets Making Up Your Mind in America

I'd like to take a look at a lesser known news source that isn't quite in the running with Fox, CNN, or the Washington Post for a change. Photo by Tom Conger via Flickr The front page of RedState today was an article covering Bryan Cranston responding to those wishing President Trump to fail. The article is very to the point with objective writing reporting what Bryan Cranston and Nicole Kidman's opinions on all the resentment towards Trump.  The only lack of objectivity that I see with this article is at the very end when the author, Andrea Ruth inserts her own opinion.  Photo is a personal screen shot from redstate.com Now, after analyzing the journalistic writing. I'd like to look at the headline for this article and placement. The headline itself is trying to get a response from Bryan Cranston fans who might be in support of Trump's failure/impeachment - especially considering his sturdy foothold in entertainment following the massive s...

Photo by usembassytallin via Flickr Today, CNN's front page boasted the following headline: This photo is a personal Screen Shot of cnn.com taken on 10.30.2017 After reading the article, I'm not sure if I would disagree with Joan Biskupic. But, I do not agree with such a boastful and emotionally swaying article. It's widely agreed that CNN leans to the left side of the political spectrum, but recently the hunt on President Trump has taken an angry and vindictive emotional tone from CNN. The artistic rendering of Mueller in front of the American flag adds to the "hunt" theme of the article and CNN's recent overtones. The article itself isn't that bias, which can be read here , but does have one point that I would argue has Biskupic inserting her opinion. She says mid way through: "In the documents released Monday, evidence is laid out in attention-getting detail, with tantalizing quotes ("Great work," a campaign supervisor t...

Today, Chris Cillizza, an analyst at CNN, criticized President Trump's tweets in which he applauds himself for having standing ovations in this very sarcastic article . Photo by Miller Center via Flickr.com In all honesty, the article was a bit funny, but there's one issue I have with the presentation of this incredibly sarcastic, Trump-mocking article. It was listed under " Latest News"  in CNN's right hand navigation bar of their CNN Politics page. The above photo is a screen shot from CNN I have no problem with an opinion piece, but as I have pointed out in other blog posts, I do not like people being enticed into an opinion piece under the false belief of objective news. This article is kind of funny, but for a less digital literate and/or gullible individual, they very well could read this bias article taking it as legitimate news that other people and news sources believe. Additionally, it gives them this one skewed viewpoint (as true or hi...

Firstly, I am one of "those people" who follows the news avidly from their smartphone - while your notifications might be from Snapchat, mine are from The Washington Post, the Economist, etc. A couple weeks ago I had gotten notifications from some of the news sources I follow on my smartphone about Harvey Weinstein's firing from The Weinstein Company - The film company he helped found. Photo by Adrian Mustredo  As I began reading through my sources I began comparing the approach of different headlines from CNN, The Washington Post, and Fox News. They progressively became more objective as I went down the list. It started with CNN's which was the most opinionated of the three, then The Washington Post which was a little less opinionated, and finally (and most surprisingly) Fox News was the most objective. CNN's headline was more drama oriented trying to get a rise out of their audience by saying, "the company he helped found," and ...