The Progressive Era Blog #4

 Links: https://www.antiwar.com/ & https://www.theamericanconservative.com/web-categories/realism-restraint/

    This was my first time ever exploring as well as hearing about the two websites  ANTIWAR.COM and American Conservative. I believe that one of the many reasons why I have never heard about these websites ever before is due to the graphic stories and news that are displayed on their websites. Another reason why I have never in my entire life heard about sites like these is because they oppose the unchecked powers of our government and business. I think that the writers on these sites who all have strong antiwar views are NEVER talked about in mainstream news because they talk about bad/corrupt events that happen within our government and around the world. It seems to me that the mainstream news does not want to talk about these people/sites because they do not want to talk about events or news that make our country look bad whether they are true or false. By not reporting this type of news it prevents the media outlet from being censored by the government even though they would be protected by the First-Amendment. Also, by not mentioning these stories on mainstream media it prevents people from hearing and understanding other people's true views and opinions on the United States of America across the world. These sources also talk about very controversial news topics that deal with our government including one article from https://www.theamericanconservative.com/ that explains why “Joe Biden Should Break Ranks and Stop the New Cold War With Russia”. I think that the reason why you have to seek out obscure websites in order to hear strong antiwar voices is thanks to the government and their authority censor anything that deem as unconstitutional in their view. Also, their posting of graphic and controversial content, makes it harder to find these stories/writers in the mainstream media due to their strong antiwar views.


   

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Multimedia Story - Social Media's Impact on Mental Health

Image
Social Media’s Impact on Mental Health   By Jack Neary  Q News Today, about 4.6 billion people or 59% of the worlds population uses social media, with that number expected to only increase. With many different platforms such as facebook, twitter, instagram and youtube there are many different ways for people to get engaged within the world of social media. Being engaged can have a positive and/or negative impact on the people who use those platforms whether they know it or not.    For many, including Karissa Fryar, a sophomore at High Point University, social media is a way to communicate with and/or create content for other people, friends and family. Also, social media is used by 20% of Americans as for them to receive news on events happening in the USA and the world. These factors among others are why billions of people use social media every single day.    For others like HPU sophomore Eric Ellner, social media can be distracting, addicting and detrimental to one’s mental health a
Read more

What I learned/found interesting from the my peers technology presentations

Image
  Listening to each and every presentation about all the different types of technology that have been invented by humans throughout history, I heard a lot of interesting facts as well as many new ones which intrigued me. I found it pretty cool that the invention of the technologies discussed during the presentations ranged all the way from the BC era until the mid to late 2000s. While I enjoyed hearing about all of the different technologies' history and evolution, I was very intrigued by one technology in particular the Short messaging service (SMS) texting. The SMS texting intrigued me the most because it was my first time ever hearing about this type of technology. I found it very interesting to me that with the Short messaging service texting was first developed in 1984 but the first text was actually sent in 1992. It also surprised me to learn that the SMS texting let you only send messages to others that were a maximum of 160 characters in length. Another interesting thing th
Read more

The First Amendment and the Six Clauses or Freedoms current news item

Image
Link:  https://www.foxnews.com/politics/fauci-backs-cdc-research-reopening-schools-dismissed-biden-chief-of-staff The news stories that I chose to use in this post was “Fauci backs CDC research on reopening schools dismissed by Biden chief of staff” The first amendment condones that congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or preventing the free exercise thereof, the freedom of speech as well as of the press, the right to peaceably assemble and to petition. However, the first amendment does not condone including threatening the President of the United States, obscenity, speech that violates intellectual property law, and many more. In this news story you can relate three of the six clauses, or freedoms which include speech, press and the right to peaceably assemble. Freedom of speech relates to this story about  Dr. Anthony Fauci backing the CDC’s research on reopening schools because under the first amendment, he has the right to express his opinion without
Read more