Riley Manion: Never Stay Silent Blog

  (extra blog post in place of "They'll Never Forget") This post, although not a required post, is something that I thought was interesting enough to create an extra blog post about. I came across this video when searching Youtube one day. The thumbnail picture seemed interesting so I decided to click on the video and watch it. I was extremely interested and slightly shocked at the results.  Although I always knew that there was bias within the media, seeing a visual representation of the most popular sites as well as sites that I use, was very intriguing. This helped me to realize how bias certain sites are, and in turn, pulled me away from looking at their articles. It is often difficult to avoid bias in the news. Although it is something that I, and everyone else, can do better at trying to avoid, sometimes reading the latest twitter update or the CNN notification is a quick and easy way to get information. This video helped me to realize that even if the information m

The government is inarguably the most powerful thing in America. Nothing or no one is above the government, which some argue, is America's biggest issue. The government, though, has had one big roadblock for centuries: the press. Since the beginning of government, the press has been a prominent resource to not only promote ideas of the government but also to call them out for wrongdoing or disinformation. This idea is transhistoric,  and has spread throughout multiple historical periods.  Defining the relationship between the press and government is much more than what meets the eye, though. It is more than black and white, or this and that. The transhistoric relationship is extremely difficult to understand, however, it is something that must be acknowledged and analyzed. "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to ass

  Yellow Journalism and Muckracking are two key ideas in the spread of journalistic ideas that many people view as controversial. But what is the difference between them? Or is there not a difference? Yellow Journalism, by definition, is "journalism that is based upon sensationalism and crude exaggeration". To put things more simply, the modern comparison to yellow journalism is the idea of fake news and its affect on reliable news sources in today's media.  The idea of Yellow Journalism came about in the 19th century and, according to the Office of the Historian , "originated in the competition over the New York City Newspaper market between major newspaper publishers Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst. At first, yellow journalism had nothing to do with reporting...". From there, the idea yellow journalism spread and became prominent through war reporting. News outlets used sensationalism to spread facts, ideas, and events to attract the public more to