Britney's Media Blog

The song "Holy Wars... The Punishment is Due"   by Megadeth deals with controversial topics within  our society. It talks about war and people dying for the cause of religion, it says: "Brother will kill brother, spilling blood across the land, killing for religion". It doesn't talk about a specific group of people or a specific event, but it talks about our society in general. It hints towards the division of Ireland and the Holy Wars ISIS, Al Qaeda have caused. It talks about how religion can disturb unity and how it has been the cause of many conflicts in the past: "A country that's divided surely will not stand my past erased, no more disgrace". When he talks about a country that is divided, he is talking about Ireland. Northern Ireland separated from Ireland because of conflicts between Catholics and Protestants. The song describes the effect of the wars on normal people's lives, and how many of them flee while they can. They have to le...

On Saturday, thousands of people gathered up in Washington D.C, and in other parts of the world, for Anti-Trump climate change marches. Shortly after, The New York Times and Fox News released articles about the event. Fox News titled theirs The Latest: Climate protesters in Chicago target Trump Tower , and The New York Times titled theirs Scientists, Feeling Under Siege, March Against Trump Policies. Fox News doesn't mention that the protesters are against Trump's policies, they just say that they are climate protesters and that they protested outside of Trump's tower, but they are not direct as to the reasons why. The New York Times are straight forward and say that people were protesting against Trump's policies. The New York Times went into detail with what some of the signs protesters were carrying said and they also interviewed some of the people. Fox News didn't interview any of the protesters, they didn't publish any of the people's opinions other tha...

     Most of us don't realize media takes part of our every day lives, and how it may influence our decisions.       I don't usually watch the news, but if I do, it's because my mom is watching them. Although I always have newspapers at my house, I never read all the way through them. The newspapers usually are The New York Times or The Sac Bee. I read about the news on the Internet or on apps like Snapchat.      I watch TV when I get home from school, depending on how much homework I have.There was a time when all I used to watch were documentaries or movies based on historical events, but now, I have expanded what I watch. I usually go on Netflix and watch a couple of episodes of my favorite shows or movies.        I never read magazines because I never see any that I am interested in. Most of the magazines that I see only have celebrities on their covers, and I don't care about celebrities, so I don't even open...