Photo from The Atlantic In 1923, Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky published his idealistic paper “The Newspaper and its Readers,” pinpointing the direction the Soviet newspaper should take to most effectively convey the beliefs of the party. Trotsky essentially considers the press as “a means of propaganda” (120) and a “weapon of enlightenment” (122). Outright, Trotsky takes Soviet news to be biased under the influence of political ideologies. Despite the fact…

Photo from NYTimes In late January, the “confrontation” between a Catholic high school boy, Nick Sandmann,  and a 64-year old Native American, Nathan Phillips, became viral on social media. First off, the racial and discriminatory controversy was sparked by a video instagram post by Kaya Taitano, who is a student at the University of the District of Columbia. The content of the video featured Phillips singing in his native language…

Photos by Sarah Liu I would say I am an ignorant person when it comes to news. I joined this class both to apply my interest in media as a theory and to widen my understanding of current media and news as a practice. Because I am not politically involved, I didn’t really care which news channels I downloaded from the Apple Store. I followed along the “5 Apps to…

Photo by Lynne Sladky On January 27, 2019, the Washington Post published a “Politics” article titled, “Trump advisors lied over and over again, Mueller says. The question is, why?” written by Rosalind S. Helderman, Josh Dawsey and Matt Zapotosky. The first three lines of the article struck me: They lied to the public for months before Donald Trump was elected — and then repeatedly after he took office. They lied to…