Consuming Images

This article found explains Trumps bans on certain people entering our country. This is put a damper on the tourism economy. A bunch of people are turned off from America because of the airport questioning they have gone through. This isn't Trump directly questioning these people and their experiences are at the airport aren't performed by him, but it is because of what he has requested the security there to do to uphold his orders.
The image included in this article show New York City, where most of the tourists travel to. It is really taken from a bridge, but all we see are the crosses to portray a bad or negative view. In my opinion, this could seem photoshopped to portray the message of New York City being bad to the tourists mentioned. The real message is Trump's actions, and the real photo is zoomed in through a fence on a bridge, or wherever it is. It is bringing up negative emotions, when in reality maybe tourists are still able to get through to New York without or after questioning, and enjoy their time. The article says how usually 200-300 people sign up for a tour and now there are 11. Those 11 are still going to do what they are doing. Maybe there are other issues contributing to this, like costs of flights. Yes we do feel the effects because the numbers show it all. This image is extremely negative.


http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-travel-slump-2017-story.html

This second picture is for Pink's spring break wear. Yes in this photo it gets you excited for spring break because they are tan, most likely by the beach, skinny, laughing, all in the newest bralette. How many girls really are going to imitate that outfit and wear a bralette instead of a swimsuit. It is almost promising or showing that by buying their bralette, they will have all those spring break experience, and even be "ready" for spring break.

Toxic Sludge-Politics Edition

Within this link, the New York Times covers President Trump allowing for churches to share their political views and put forth endorsements for their desired candidates. This would involve overturning the Johnson Amendment. Any news source is going to not only cover stories that best fir their own interest as a publication, but it is directly shown by who they interview, and which events they choose to attend to get those interviews.

As an editor for the school paper, we are always pressured, for good reason, to get both sides of the story and remain extremely unbiased. I think that the mass media gets away with this, or gets around this so easily.

This is interesting take on the media covering what Trump believes in because it is usually his negative actions and harsh, opinions. Here is standing up for everyone's freedom of speech including the pastor's and the church's opinion.

The NYT is considered liberal so it can show their lack of biases by covering what may be a conservative topic. The light they are going to shine on it is going to be different than if The Wall Street Journal covered it, being more towards the conservative side, than the New York Times is.

The ads that are shown on the articles we read in the NYT is going to be the funding indicators. The ads I have seen from accessing this article include simple mobile.com, airbnb, and a slippers ad. These seem to be low key, non pressing companies. I would look at it aligning with the way the NYT writes their content and their entire tone. Thesis who is keeping them afloat, aside from the subscriptions, these ads are crucial.

I think this can be considered toxic sludge because anything we read is going to have a hidden agenda and going to be biased in a way. This may not be extremely toxic, but it is a part of the media that we get our information from, since we can not be there directly to get the news for ourselves.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/02/us/politics/trump-johnson-amendment-political-activity-churches.html?_r=0

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2014/10/21/lets-rank-the-media-from-liberal-to-conservative-based-on-their-audiences/?utm_term=.456d9fb94682