When thinking about “fake news” a
lot of things come to mind because of the time we live in. Mass media has such
an influence on how we think and act and conduct our day-to-day lives. The
media and people in society and on social media love to make fun of Donald
Trump and his horrible twitter full of words like “FAKE NEWS”. MY example,
however, is actually in favor of Donald Trump and as someone who doesn’t
necessarily agree with Mr. Trump, I believe this is a horrible injustice in the
media. The example of “fake news” that I think is extremely significant,
especially now, is Donald Trumps Executive Order being referred to as a “Muslim
Ban” across all mass media sites. While I don’t necessarily agree with Donald
Trump’s platform, this situation is just a huge injustice in my opinion. The
most ridiculous thing about the entire portrayal to the media is the fact that
the order didn’t even mention Muslims, or all or even most Muslim countries. To
say where this actually originated would be impossible without addressing the
fact that former president Barack Obama designated all the actual groups that
were included on this order. The media
calling it a “Muslim Ban” literally just creates hysteria among the masses.
Calling it a “Muslim Ban” is just trying to further the agenda people have in
regards to calling Trump a racist bigot. While all of that may full well be
true, this was not an example of that. The media calling it a “Muslim Ban”
literally is just adding fuel to a fire that has been erupting since Donald Trump’s
nomination.
This order absolutely resonates
differently with different audiences. Reading this as a hardcore Trump
supporter you may even see it as a “Muslim Ban” and be fully in support of it.
You could feed into the misconception and spew hatred about banning other
minorities and use it to make people mad. If you were a hardcore Trump hater when an article such as this
comes out it would instill a rage inside of you. I think this order resonates
with these two groups (obviously in totally opposite ways) the most. I believe
the media using the word “ban” to describe the order symbolizes a lot to me. I
think it was used as way to further divide our nation and to instill more
hatred in the population. When I first heard about this I was told it was literally
an order banning Muslims from entering the country for an undisclosed amount of
time. I was under the impression that Donald Trump sat down and made a list of
countries he didn’t want to associate with (primarily Muslim based) and made
sure to carry out the order. When I was made aware that that’s not even
slightly what happened in this situation it actually made me really mad. Donald
Trump has done a lot of despicable things but this situation was just not one
of them and that is why I think it is so important to analyze.
