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OTM 1 - "The Game Has Changed"

The Game Has Changed talks a lot about journalism and how to be more effective through what they are producing. It goes on to compare Donald Trump to Vladimir Pooten because they run their press conferences similar to one another. Alexie Covelev noted in medium, that they are similar because Trump dominates everything and anything during these press conferences, she goes on to say, everyone else is a just prop to him. Trump calls out CNN because he is frustrated with the "fake" news that continues to get released about him. I liked how this was explained on this broadcast, I felt it explained the scenario quite well. He stated,  "Buzz-feed presumably published it in part because CNN was reporting on it CNN was reporting on it because intelligence officials had briefed trump on it, intelligence officials briefed trump on it because senior congressional leaders were passing it around senior congressional leaders may have been passing it around it part because senate min...

#inauguration

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What. A. Day. There are definitely a lot of varying opinions about Donald J. Trump becoming our 45th President of the United States of America. During this process I loved watching past presidents and leaders set aside the hate and come together. I feel this is important because in order to truly "Make America Great Again", we need to create an accepting atmosphere.  I felt Trump did a decent job in addressing this issue of how we need to come together as a nation to create positive change. Protests on protests! This particular protest took place the night before inauguration day. A statement that has become popular to those who are in fact protesting Trump is "Not my president", as well as, "We are the popular vote", (as you see on the snap-chat story from the "News" category) insisting that Trump be taken out of office because technically, he didn't win the popular vote, which does frustrate a lot of people. Many people, incl...