User blog:UnderAPineapple/Pineapple Talk 8: Media Matters

Hello and welcome back to another Pineapple Talk. Before I explain why I hate life right now, I want to say that I'll be posting the links to one video each blog that I make. Those videos will lead you to one song that I am currently listening to that I think is great. I will also have a poll to see whether the song that was listened to was good or bad.

For this Pineapple Talk, I'm going to be talking about social media, and why I have more of a dislike to it than a like. In my most recent Pineapple Talk, I discussed about Jake Paul, and why I think he's an attention whore, and I brought up my theory about YouTube entertainment, known as the "Money Magnet".

Fairly simple, YouTube is a company that grows faster that the population of Canada as of this year. It's always looking to promote new material, and the people that work for YouTube specialize in finding entertainment. Users like Pewdiepie, Nigahiga, and Vsauce (the latter of which I am a huge fan of), who have over 10 million subscribers, have been given more of a platform as opposed to channels with 300,000 subs, and rightly so. It's, to me, a matter of supply-and-demand. If you receive demand, which is subscribers wanting more content, you create supply, which is the content the subs want. Jake Paul is right now, almost at 10,000,000 subscribers (haven't checked his channel recently), which is why it's not that surprising companies such as Disney & the Teen Choice Awards, are more than willing to use him to gain more relevancy. The problem with this, is that Jake is an absolute tool, but I've had enough of talking about him.

The second thing I want to talk about is what I put into the title "Media", and why it matters. Television is something that has been a primary source for entertainment for DECADES, and the majority of people are making sure to stay tuned to what is on the news. But what happens when you only watch a news source that is openly willing to cater to your opinion, for views? Take FOX News as an example, in which they are openly biased for conservative media, praising people like Donald Trump, and bashing people who dislike him. Or CNN, who, although not as openly, but most definitely, is a liberal news source. I long for the day in which I can find an accurate news source which doesn't cater to one side. I'll use an example as to why I'm saying this.

CNN: ​I believe it was around the time Kathy Griffin was getting shit for her beheading fiasco of the President, when a GIF came out of what appeared to be current president Donald Trump performing a wrestling attack on another famous entrepreneur (Vince McMahon). The creator edited the footage to put the CNN logo onto the man's face to make it look like Trump was taking down CNN. CNN producers ended up taking this seriously, and actually threatened to release ​personal information about the person who made what was in actuality, just an innocent and stupid meme. But that is one of many reasons why people refuse to watch CNN. I myself, like my facts and evidence, and there's plenty of evidence for me to see why CNN isn't a credible source, as much as people want you to believe.

FOX: ​Probably the more obvious biased source for information, but I could provide many pieces of evidence as to why I believe FOX is not a trustworthy source. #1, it is openly conservative. The only reason I'd actually tolerate this, is because many other sources are openly liberal, and I'd prefer to get a perspective from both sides before forming my opinion on something. If you want to look for more information YouTube channels have posted videos of compilations of Fox & CNN (mostly CNN) being quote, "Fake News". In addition, whenever someone attacks Donald Trump or any conservative, they tend to use the word "liberal" as a heinous term, by saying, "Look at these disgusting liberals protesting on the streets!", which is not true, because a group of morons causing violence on the streets (Antifa), does not signify that all liberals are like that.

That's all that I have today on Pineapple Talk. I shared my criticism on these sites, and more so, I hope I don't have to do this again, but I wanted to get this off of my chest. Not all conservatives are racist bigots, and not all liberals are nutcases, and it frustrates me when media tries to paint a picture that one side is promoting a terrible ideology, when in reality, that is WHY our country is so divided. Makes me want to move to Australia to be honest with you. Thank you for reading, and feel free to voice you opinion, if you want to. Don't be hateful in the comments, we can all have an open discussion on stuff like this.

​Song of the Day: "You & Me" - by RosendaleSings

​https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5fHfBSpUsM

Did you enjoy the song? Yes! The guy has an amazing voice. It was okay, I don't prefer his type of music though. That song sucked more than Sherri Biethman in Caramoan