Trump News

In the process of researching this assignment, I was actually surprised to see such a wide gap in the way the media covered Trump. The goal of each publication is very apparent from the start of each article. Either the news shows Trump in a favorable light, an unfavorable light, or a neutral one. From my searches, and maybe this is just Google trying to profile me, it appeared that there were far more negative articles in the news tab than positive or neutral. While, this could just be that my Internet history blinders are up, I still find it surprising that I had to deliberately seek out Fox News to find something good said about the President.

I can't stress enough how much he looks like my grandmother.

My first example gasses Trump up more than your mother’s facebook friends. All the story covers is an interview with Donald Trump’s son DTJR, talking about the incredible things his father has accomplished in the first two months, at one point even stating he had “gotten more done for the country in two months than Presidents Obama and Bush”. There’s not a single fact or analysis of this statement, or anything that could lead the audience to believe that DTJR’s statement is false. The only

This example is humorous to me mainly due to the lengths it goes to make Trump look bad in a story about the attendance of baseball players at a white house visit. There appears to be bias here because the main focus is on the players that didn’t go than the players that did. I found several articles on the topic of the Patriot visit, but most of them focused on the visit itself, unlike this one that emphasized the missing players already by the headline. This is clearly an example of journalistic bias. The fact that some of the players on the New England Patriots baseball team do not agree with Trump or could not make it to the White House on that specific day isn’t really news. However, this article seems to point out a disconnect between America and their president, which is a pretty powerful take on something as insignificant as baseball players visiting Donald Trump.

This final article is actually the only one I came across in all my generic searches that only intends to deliver nothing more than factual news. The article goes on to detail the plans for Trump’s meeting with Pope Francis this May. There is no aim to make commentary about whether this makes Trump a good President, or a bad President, but rather covering the plans for a meeting between two important people. The increasingly polarized nature of our media makes it difficult to find coverage like this. The Wall Street Journal has a good reputation for talking about news in a way that doesn’t conflict with party affiliation of any kind. This is the kind of publication we should seek out more often to get a neutral and fair take on current events in this nation.