Make America Great Again Essay

Bias reporting in the main stream media has grown into a National phenomenon, especially after the most recent election cycle. There is no middle ground and there are never two sides to any story. The term “fake news” is voiced over and over again by politicians and I can’t help but to agree. Before you dismiss my essay in the assumptions that I am out on a mission to “Make America Great Again”, I believe all parties are equally guilty. Reporting now will have you believe you are either left or right, liberal or conservative. Half the country is calling for an end of racism and bigotry while the other half blames the coddled snowflakes. Now more than ever we need to try our best to form our own opinions on each subject of controversy based on ALL applicable information. Lumping people into categories and making generalized assumptions about them is a dangerous path every time. At the same time we need to refuse to let biases control our thoughts and keep an open mind. It’s difficult to say how much worse the separation of parties is now compared to the past. Has it peaked or is the presence of social media and a maturing millennial generation just making the gap more apparent. In my …show more content…
Businesses are driven by money and money is brought in by viewers or in this day in age “clicks”. It would seem logical that if a news station grows a more substantial viewership playing off fears and emotions of political biases they would continue to do so. Thereby widening the social gap and increasing fears of the other side. The greater the emotion the more they have to play off. It’s an endless cycle. Social media has only streamlined this process putting the news in the palm of our hands. Often, articles will get one sentence to draw in an audience to view their article. The greater emotion they can illicit off of that short blurb the more traffic goes through their website, coining the term “click