Automatic Attitudinal Response

The blog post that I'd like to assess was my third On The Media, Smoke & Handcuffs. I chose this post because I realized that I showed my personal bias on many occasions. The entire post starts off with me recalling a time Trump said he'd stop using twitter. Though this can be viewed as either fact worthy or biased, my next paragraph shows my bias and attitude about Trump still using Twitter by saying, "Trump is still using twitter, and whether we like that fact or not, he's going to do it anyway." You can tell there is a underlining tone to that sentence with my overpowering disapproval of the president using social media in this kind of way.

The next paragraph in my post was all opinion based. I automatically assume that the President is only watching the news and not getting official facts from professionals and advisers before posting a comment on twitter. I even gathered evidence of our president using "shows" to gain military advice in an interview to drive my point.

The next two paragraphs are more of a rant against our President with me stating my personal opinion with no facts to back me up and is more of my reactionary response to anything Trump does. It's obvious that anyone who didn't agree with my opinion of Trump wouldn't read past the first few sentences, making this blog post ineffective to possibly show what could be a troubling issue in our democracy and in our White House.

Looking back at this blog posts almost makes me disappointed in myself as I know I can write better than that and pull facts out in a way that doesn't have an agenda and instead can become informative and professional. Its helpful to look back and recognize where I let my bias' comes out and become more aware to make sure that doesn't happen in the future.

Facebook Ad

 I've made a couple of ads that boosted my posts before and through that I've been able to narrow down my audience to only women from the ages of 18-30, as that is the range of people that have responded the most to my past ads.
Of course this is a repeat of an ad I've already made to show you what I did for that one, although I may have just now sent out a second one that is going to cost me 10 times more than what I originally paid. (hopefully I stopped the ad from going live, though I'm not 100% sure that I have). So with that minor heart attack going on in the background lets move on to the response I got!

RESPONSE

So under the actions of this ad, I was able to reach 324 video views that led to 9 link clicks. The video is only a short 3 second video thats purpose is suppose to grab my audience attention, and where I only got 9 link clicks, I can tell that my video wasn't the best way to grab my audiences' attention. However, that is the most link clicks I've gotten on one of my videos that I've boosted, so I must be getting better. 

When we look at the people who viewed my video we see that the most people who were interested to watch were mainly from the ages of 18-24, which will allow me to focus primarily on that age group. However, I do have to take into consideration that I only ran this ad for one day, and people over the age of 24 are usually at work and not scrolling through Facebook

all day, which means that I obviously would get a higher response from the younger age group.

OTM #3

Smoke & Handcuffs

I recall a time after the election when President Trump assured the American people that tweeting would no longer be a way of communicating after he entered office. He stated, "Don't worry, I'll give it up after I'm president. We won't tweet anymore. I don't know. Not presidential." This remark came after his wife Melania said that she wished Trump would "tone down his twitter habit". However, as we've all seen after Trump took office, he hasn't stopped. In fact he spends most of his time reacting to whatever news he may be watching. 

This has been focused on in many occasions such as calling Chelsea Manning an "ungrateful traitor",

as well as threatening to "send in the Feds" to Chicago to fix their crime issues after watching Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor. 

I believe we've all started to get use to the fact that Trump is still using twitter, and whether we like that fact or not, he's going to do it anyway. But what concerns are there that trump is tweeting publicly about the news? I personally see an issue with the fact that our president is getting all his news from the same sources as us, without getting the fact checks a President should have before making official decisions based off it. He even claimed in an interview with Chuck Todd that he gets his military advice from "shows". Why is our President not conversing with trained officials and getting the facts on issues happening in the United States? 

Trump watches cable news from sun up to sun down, but if you want my personal opinion on this, its not because trump is watching to see what's happening in the world. He's watching the news to see what everyone is saying about him. If you want Trump on your side, you should pamper his ego and he'll be all yours. Agree with me or not, but that's how I personally view Trumps addiction to watching cable news. 

I'm not saying our President shouldn't be aware of what is happening on the news, but I think Trumps odd fascination is damaging in the respect that he does not take the time to fact check his news sources and instead reacts instantly via twitter, creating confusion and uproar in the American people.