June 5, 2024

Pride Month Madness Begins

Why Troubling News:

Overall, there is a lot of extreme language used, indicating a bias. Additionally, there is a clear and obvious voice of negativity towards pride month and homosexuality in general. It mostly takes a religious standpoint and as a result, the report is presented in a very biased way. It takes very strong viewpoints, saying things like "it should" or "shouldn't" or referring to this as a "deadly sin". Thus, this is a clear example of troubling and biased news.

June 4, 2024

Trans Runner Complains Biological Females Didn’t Congratulate Him Enough After Getting Beat In State Championship

Why Troubling News:

This article is troubling to me due to the misgendering of the athlete and blatant transphobia. It refers to a trans woman as "him," and implies that she won a race due to not being a biological female. It frames her as the villain of the story for standing up to transphobia and it is unacceptable.

June 4, 2024

Colleges withhold students degrees over Pro-Palestinian protests

Why Troubling News:

The article headline uses the word withhold, when in reality the Universities, like University of Chicago is refuses four students diplomas. While the difference is not as bad, I think it should separate the case of University of Chicago as it is actively refusing to grant four students diplomas as of recently.

June 4, 2024

US Elections 2024

Why Troubling News:

This article does not exactly spread fake news, however, it is extremely biased towards the right side. There are multiple phrases in the article that is blatently against the democrat president Joe Biden. While this article is not particulary leaning toward republicans, it is extremely biased against the democrats.

June 3, 2024

Biden Uses Billions of Dollars of Your Money to Buy Himself Votes

Why Troubling News:

There isn't anything inherently "False" or "fake" about this news, however, the way that it was worded throughout is what really stuck with me. The article points at Biden spending billions of dollars towards what the journalist calls "community organizations in disadvantaged communities". At face value, the article is slamming Biden for distributing money back into communities who need more financial support, and calls it "buying votes". Again, while there's nothing directly wrong or false with what the article is saying, it is certainly being written is a heavily biased manner that was pretty eye catching

June 2, 2024

LGBTQ Pride Month posts from Sesame Street, National Weather Service, Defense Department ignite uproar

Why Troubling News:

Article quotes a couple of angry comments on X (Twitter) over LGBTQ pride posts. It actually does very little reporting or informing, as it is the equivalent of a quick scrolling through X. That fact aside, I find it problematic that it only shows one side of the reactions, making it seem as if all reactions and comments were negative.