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Upon reading We\u2019re the reason we can\u2019t have nice things on the Internet<\/em>, I found out that the umbrella term of \u201ctrolling\u201d is much more vague than the generic 14 year old making fun of a photo on the internet. It makes sense that it actually transcends this image of the generic troll to \u201cpoliticians\u201d like Donald Trump, and even News Media Coverage.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s start with the elephant in the blog, Donald Trump. It\u2019s pretty clear that his excessive tweets for the most part \u201ctrolls\u201d aspects of racial, gendered, protest groups and many more aspects of society. I always thought that trolls were weak little kids who hide behind their devices, and it\u2019s true although the weak bully with tiny hands happens to be controlling the White House. And this is scary (and has been), because this just adds more evidence that Trump (also known as Troll) is so immature, yet has the capabilities of starting World War 3.<\/p>\n

It almost seems hand in hand that as we talk about the fat elephant we have to address the mainstream media. This time, however, the media outlets do have people who are wrong \u201con many sides\u201d. Let\u2019s look at a topic like conflicts in the Middle East. All the media does is shows the violence with maybe a little bit of coverage about the treaties or an armistice. Like Phillips says in We\u2019re the reason we can\u2019t have nice things on the Internet<\/em>, most of the media uses these stories by \u201cflattening its subjects into fetishized objects, and essentially converting bad (or tragic, or just plain gross) news into an opportunity to sell more ads.\u201d\u00a0 Below is an important video going into detail of two examples in which the media has distorted stories, this ignoring the actual impact.\u00a0 The second example goes into the power that the media has to cause major shifts in economic supply in order to turn make more money (not on topic, but nonetheless very interesting!).<\/p>\n