Blog 2-Applying Ideological Criticism to Biased News

There are several different news media outlets, for research purpose I will be focusing on CNN, Fox News and BBC news. Depending on the source, the way in which we interpret information will vary on that specific source. For example, if you are a fan of Fox news as opposed to CNN, chances are when you see an article released by CNN you will discard it; later on you may see a similar article this time released by Fox News, you will be more likely to read this article and believe it because it promotes your values and beliefs. Ideological Criticism refers to the idea of a pattern of beliefs that determine the interpretations of some aspect of the world by a group of people. These patterns then shape the way in which people interpret and spread news, all relating back to their beliefs. In the attached article written by Laura Jarrett from CNN, you can see that she talks about President Trump in a rather negative light, exposing his bad. She covers a story of a man who believes that he was wrongly deported and she included Trump's past comments on Mexican people. I then checked Fox News for any stories covering this and could not find one actually, the tone of the stories on the Fox News page were seemingly kinder to Trump if not in favor of him. If your personal beliefs are against immigration and you have a negative view on people who come over to the country then you are probably more inclined to read the Fox News stories on immigration and get their point of view instead of CNN where they are more accepting of immigration. Ideology can be classified anywhere from religion such as christianity, muslim, judaism, etc. or they can be less in depth like reality tv or education. What it comes down to is the idea of your own beliefs and values determining how you percieve different stories and how you see the world.



http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/20/politics/juan-manuel-montes-bojorquez-judge-curiel/index.html

"Fake News"

Fake News

"Fake news" is a term that has been thrown around lately, mostly due to the president elect. Donald Trump has seemingly started a trend of this where anything that is against his point of view or supports his ideas. There have been many online stories that have looked real and legitimate and have been proven to be fake. Many people are taking the role of "fact checkers" now in response to all of the fake news floating around. A good example of this would the advertisement strategy for a new movie called "A Cure For Wellness". The PR company that was behind the promotion of this movie thought it would be a good idea to create websites that looked like real news articles and contained information pertaining to the movie, which is a horror movie about a hospital that traps people and makes them terminally ill. This was frightening people and ruining the reputation of other popular newspaper companies. For the movie company, this got the name out there so that people could be familiar with it and it cost them very little to do so. The so called "fact checkers" were quick to cover this and release statements assuring the public that these articles where in deed, fake news. In terms of Donald Trump, the news in which he refers to as "fake news" are simply any news stories that go against his personal beliefs or make him look bad in any way. He has taken to Twitter to release tweets typically past midnight, to get his followers to take his side and combat these news stories and persuade others to believe that they are inaccurate. Some applaud Trump for being so clever to be able to persuade millions that well-known news organizations could release articles that are untrue. He has had much success and has impacted many news paper companies reputations. The newly generated thought of "fake news" has people angry and ready to find the truth.