Colton Cosner's Media Blog

Topic 2: ·       To be honest I do not know which one to believe. Its hard to not believe your President, because he runs our country, but at the same time I feel like Trump would lie about it just too cover himself up. There’s that way to look at it and then there is the viewpoint of the news companies making up certain stories to turn against Trump because they do not like him, and make money off of big stories that are not really true. I feel like you can’t fully make the right call, you just go with which one you believe in more. News companies make money off of big stories and President Trump is a walking giant news story. Personally I can’t decide which one to believe. ·       I believe that it goes back to who you truly believe in. If you are a huge supporter of Trump then you believe that the press is doing attacks against his rights, creating fake stories on him. If you are not a supporter of Trump, then you believe that he...

Topic 1: ·       I get my local news from Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and my friends. I do not watch TV very much and I never read the newspaper, so these are my main forms I use for news. News is pretty important to my daily life because I always like being caught up in what is going on around me. I do not like being left in the dark with the news. The accounts I use for news on social media is usually hashtags that are most popular on that day. Lets say on twitter it says #taxes is tending across the country, and I can click on that hashtag and read tons of different articles on what the news is for that hashtag. On Facebook I scroll through and will see many different account posting random news reports that are interesting to me. The hardest one to answer is how do I know that the news I am getting is a 100% accurate, because honestly I do not know. I just believe what I read and hope no one is trying to scam me or cause fake reports. It takes too mu...

Topic 2: Topic 2: 1)          I believe that what WikiLeaks is good and bad and here’s why. What WikiLeaks does that is good is not let people be in the dark, while the government tries to hide stuff from the public. Seeing videos of how our government acts in foreign countries gives people an idea of where they are living and who they are living under. The government has hidden tons of information from the people, and to have someone ballsy enough to step up and show us the true colors is good. The bad side is not everyone needs to know everything. There are some things that are good not to know, you learn that when you grow up. Leaking a video of our military shooting people over seas can release a ton of conflict with our society, splitting them up into different sides of who agrees with it and who doesn’t. Another bad reason is that some videos can be released and seen in different parts of the world. If Kenya has been killing people and w...