OTM 3: Seeing is Believing

On The Media

This week on On The media focuses on the Muslim ban from certain countries that President Trump signed a second iteration of his executive order. Thankfully it is not has bad has the first ban; which focused on banning people green cards and making others take a religion test. Brook Gladstone states, "No longer a Muslim ban, this was a travel ban. And yet, in many respects, the second ban is likely to accomplish the same goals as the first, the very goals that nettled the courts". The main goal is to limit immigrants from countries such as Syria, Iran, Libya, Somailia, and Yemen. This will hopefully improve homeland security and make are country safer. According to Dahlia Lithwick, no matter what we are still trying ban Muslims and next minorities.




So far 13 states have backed up Trumps revised ban and will continue to support him. Other believe it is very cruel and unconstitutional. So far i feel mutual in this sitiuation. I really don't know how i feel about this because some of people of those countries are good people. Then some are bad people. I feel like President Trump no matter what will face adiversity, but big moves needs to made. Which many people won't agree with, but that is how it will go no matter what.

Automatic Additudinal Response

Automatic Attitudinal Response

As I look back on my previous On the Media, I realized that i seem to be very opinionated. Also I try not to be one sided throughout my On the Media post. I noticed that me and many of my class mates agree on majority of the issues we are seeing in our post. The only thing i noticed is that I am one of the few Trump supporters. Don't get me wrong, I do feel President Trump needs to shut is mouth sometimes because he doesn't know how to speak well. He needs to delete his twitter account and get the American people on his side because we are very divided. I was even worried to put the fact that i voted for Trump because i don't want to be judged by my classmates.

Also I been staying away from social media and the media because it is so bias and one sided depending on who you are watching. Then when comes to social media, you see the most ignorant post on the planet. In no way do i defend Trump for some of his actions but, somethings fabricated to make him look worse than he is.

I need to stop being so emotional in my comments because i don't agree with everybody and i sometimes knock others opinions which is not right. I want to be open minded to others opinions and hopefully learn more from both sides of the spectrum.

OTM 2: Highly Irregular

This week on On The Media it focus on many topics that are opening many peoples eyes lately. Such as An expensive TV ad campaign has been selling Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch to the American people. Also even though the Trump wiretapping accusations might be false, we need to be aware somebody might be listening no matter what. A couple weeks ago Good ol President Trump made some bold accusations claiming that President Obama had the Trump Tower wiretapped. Which as been proved not to be true at all, but the republicans still believe their was some type of surveillance at the Trump Tower. “I recently confirmed that on numerous occasions the intelligence community incidentally collected information about US citizens involved in the Trump transition,” stated by Rep. Devin Nunes. Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, and it refers to the communications of US citizens that get swept up in surveillance of a foreign national. He described it to be very common to get a incidental collection.

Bob Garfield also talks about how Neil Gorsuch is getting extremely pushed on to the American People. The ad campaign for Gorsuch is up to 10 million dollars. They want to ensure he gets an high seat on the high court. Gorsuch is getting funded by a lot of dark money which many people are not happy with because people believe he is not a good choice due to poor decisions in the past.

I really enjoyed this weeks topic and i found many things interesting. Especially learning about the Section 702 and what it means and how it can affect us. I feel extremely alarmed that we are could possibly be spyed on and not even know it. Also Trump needs to stop tweeting cause is mouth is getting him in trouble even if is Hotel was wiretapped, just shut up and keep your mouth shut.

OTM 1: Doesn't Add Up

I found this On the Media very interesting in may ways. The prime focus was breaking down Trump's budget, how the White House is cooking the books, and why Wikileaks played the media. During the week of March 17, 2017 Garfield reported that the white house released their first budget, which hoped to propose a spending increase in Defense, homeland security, and veterans affair. Bob Garfield states, " The extent to which the proposals would punish the poor was shocking to many in the media and statements made by Trump administration officials didn't help." Also many of the republicans are questioning the CBO integrity throughout this process which would lead 24 million Americans losing insurance.


Bob Garfield also reports that Wikileaks found out that spy agencies are able to track info and get into are phones, which he stated to be extremely "scary".


I agree with Garfield when comes to them being able to get into are phones without permission is very scary. Also it seems that we have lack of privacy which i don't agree with especially if you are a normal day to day citizen. Also knowing that Wikileaks exaggerated a lot of the info is typical cause many Americans will believe everything the media says including myself even if it is false.


http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2017/feb/16/donald-trump/trumps-flip-flop-leaks-and-release-secret-informat/