Media Critique
(Link to full article here: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/09/12/trump-moves-in-on-pennsylvania-avenue-with-luxury-hotel.html)
So, Trump is making his headlines with a new hotel in Washington D.C. People are mad because he has ruined an old historic building and turned it into a luxury hotel in a city full of working-class Americans. Boo hoo. While many do agree that Trump's actions are ridiculous, this doesn't deserve to be front-page news, for a couple of reasons.
The main reason that this story is utter baloney is that it's not relevant. Who is this exactly affecting? Maybe the old owners of the historic building, sure. Maybe even the wealthy population of Washington D.C. But this doesn't tell America anything it hasn't already heard from the hundreds of Trump-hating media outlets.
In addition, this article is not inclusive of everyone. Most of the opinions in this article come from workers for Trump, family of Trump, or Trump himself. The only other side we see is someone we don't know talking about the historic significance of the building. where are the interviews of citizens? Immigrants? Of the people that this construction will actually affect? There is no mention of how this will actually affect citizens living there.
In short, this article is irrelivant, uninclusive, and not a story worthy of national news.
Yes, I feel like the national media was kind of suckered by this story. Trump wanted to promote his new hotel and, because he's running for president, the media played right along. I don't think they should have ignored the hotel, but they should have challenged Trump's self-promotional statements about how successful all of his businesses are. (Hint: They're not. http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/jun/21/hillary-clinton/yep-donald-trumps-companies-have-declared-bankrupt/ )
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