Liberal media

A little more gloating and some other stuff as well..

I feel like it's been awhile since I wrote a political-related post. And not that I'm particularly intent on making sure my blog has a sufficient amount of political content, but I read something something sort of relevant and wanted to comment on it. 

Firstly, I have been pondering what sorts of topics I should cover as editor in chief (isn't it nice to have a title like that?!) in my (can I call it mine??) newspaper. Some of the things that don't really interest me as much would be sports, so even though the college does have some sports going on, I'm not really aware of them and I don't have a huge desire to do coverage of that. But for the sake of variety and balance, I feel like I should maybe at least try to include some sports coverage here and there, although maybe I'll just assign that out if possible.. I'd rather not cover that myself. Secondly, I was thinking, should I cover politics as it relates to the people of the college? As an extension of that thought, I thought, does that mean I should try to find a Trump supporter in the student body and interview them? And if I did that, would they request anonymity/a pseudonym to protect their identity?? A) I think it would be hard to find a Trump supporter in the student body, although not necessarily impossible; I guess there probably are at least a few, if no more than that. B) If I were a Trump supporter in the particular environment of this particular college/area, I might not necessarily want my identity revealed in an article. But who knows. I'm semi-reticent about theoretically interviewing a Trump supporter, but hey, that one lady interviewed the Nazis in Charlottesville, so... 

Then, regarding my reticence about theoretically interviewing a Trump supporter, I thought about the idea of the "liberal media". I would definitely consider myself to be a liberal, and since I'm going to be writing for a (albeit small) news publication, I guess I count as media too. Liberal media. In my fairly brief reading about that, I saw some headlines that claimed the idea of the liberal media is a myth, although I didn't read those articles. I found a Washington Post media analysis blog post that examined the idea of the liberal media. This article actually has a quote from eyelashes guy (a conservative) in it at one point! Me personally, I understand why people might consider it to be a "liberal media", so I'm not quite ready to accept the idea that it's a myth. There are a few potential explanations offered by the Washington Post, one being that the geographical location of large media organizations (NYT, WP, etc) are in places like DC and NYC where lots of liberal people live. I guess that makes sense, and it applies to myself as well. 

It still remains to be seen/decided on whether I particularly want to cover politics/sports as they relate to the college, but it's a possibility. Also, I am never drinking tea again because it wreaked havoc on my digestion yesterday. Back on the subject of politics, here is an amusing snarky satirical piece from The New Republic. The illustrations are pretty neat looking too.

Also, what with North Korea and the nuclear weapons being all in the news, I thought about how the term "weapons of mass destruction" seems to have fallen out of favor. I guess there's not as much of a question of whether or not North Korea is in the process of manufacturing them though.