Fakes News Fact or Faux

 Hi everyone! For this weeks blog entry I chose one that I think has a lot to do with the theme of my blog despite not dealing necessarily with American politics. I stumbled upon an article published in time about how “fake news” is becoming a huge negative part of the Honduras election process. I think this is fitting for the theme of my blog as well as can be related back to American politics. The article talked about how there was a small specific group of people that had been paid to endorse and create publicity for one candidate running for office. These people were spreading misinformation and did not care how fake it was as long as it painted the candidate in a better and more likeable way. This is very similar to our most recent election in 2020 where social media and mass media in general played a HUGE role in the way things were conducted. I remember for closely leading up to Election Day my social media was flooding with statistics, facts, and information that often conf...

 For this weeks blog post I decided to use a Washington Post article (found on my Twitter or at bottom of page) I found. I found a headline about the situation while I was scrolling through my Twitter feed for this class and decided it looked like a good topic to explore. The original headline for the tweet was titled “New York forcing citizens to receive covid vaccine”. I googled “vaccine mandate New York” and found the Washington post article that went more in depth about the situation. Just doing a quick scan through I was able to get some more details about the situation. The mandate has actually been in effect for very long however, a judge recently declined a halt to the mandate. The mandate also does not effect everyone. It only effects municipal employees and only requires one dose of any vaccine. The judge argued that this was no different than requiring a measles vaccine which they gave for years. This is the perfect example of a headline trying to grab readers attention ...

The article that I am choosing to post this week’s blog about is several articles based around the new Heartbeat Act that passed in Texas earlier this week. While there is alot of controversy revolving around this Act, the one thing I’m choosing to focus on is that Texas has created an anonymous tip-line website to report individuals who are believed to have performed or had an abortion. From a personal stand-point, I cannot believe that anyone would create a website to target women for making a personal choices about their body and personal lives. Upon seeing the first tweet about the website (which can be found linked below as well as quoted on my Twitter page) I immediately did a quick Google search to see if this was true because it’s such a bizarre concept to me that other people can be so obsessed with what a woman they aren’t even affected by chooses to do with her body. Through some further research I found that while the website was active for a small amount of time, the domai...

 For this post the media I’m choosing to observe is a Tik Tok I saw earlier this week. I saw the Tik Tok and automatically thought about this blog and the purpose of the blog. The tok tik (posted on my twitter and listed at the end of the post) was a post targeted towards being anti-vaxx for the COVID-19 vaccine. The person posting the video was targeting the “liberal sheep” partying and showing off an article he found that said that the CEO of the Pfizer vaccine had not even taken it himself. I was curious about this and did about 3 minutes of research. Upon the quick research I learned that yes, the CEO of Pfizer did not have his vaccine for two reasons. A. He wanted to wait until the vaccine was available for his age group and didn’t want to “cut in line” and take a vaccine from someone who was very high risk potentially needed the vaccine. B. He also had not had his vaccine because the original article was posted March 5th even though the Tik Tok video was posted mid august. I ...

 Hi class! Welcome to my blog for POLS 3380! I hope everyone has a wonderful semester!