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…