Rough road ahead for journalists in Trump era
Daniel McGuire,
Contributor
July 19, 2017
Since his January 2017 Presidential Inauguration, Donald Trump has verbally attacked the press. His attacks have focused on corporate media companies such as CNN, ABC, NBC News, CBS, the New York Times, and the Washington Post, which he pejoratively brands “fake news” or “fake media.” On July 2,...
Trump Tracker: Pioneer updates on America’s president
Louis LaVenture,
Editor-in-Chief
July 19, 2017
What Happened? President Donald Trump met privately with Russian leader Vladimir Putin a second time on July 7 at the G20 Summit, an international forum for the governments and central bank governors from 20 major economies, in Hamburg, Germany. Hours into the annual summit, Trump made his w...
Trump Tracker: Pioneer updates on America’s president
Louis LaVenture,
Editor-in-Chief
March 1, 2017
What happened? On Tuesday President Donald Trump spoke to a joint congress session in Washington, D.C. The White House also banned several media outlets from a briefing on Friday. Speech For the first time since taking office more than a month ago, Trump delivered a speech that seemed to try and unify the country. He...
Donald Trump bashes media
Louis LaVenture,
Editor-in-Chief
February 22, 2017
On Feb. 18 the president of the United States of America let the media have it. According to CNN, thousands of supporters attended while hundreds protested outside a rally in Florida on Saturday, at which Trump called the news media in America, “the enemy of the American people.” Trump began S...
Readers beware of fake news
Ira Lazo,
Contributor
December 8, 2016
It’s getting more difficult to distinguish between real and fake news content online. Like others, I am guilty of re-posting an article based on the title alone, and I have fallen for articles made to look like real news stories with clickbait titles more times than I would ever care to sh...
