Simeons blogs

    My interactions with media began later in my life compared to most of my peers, or rather not as much as them. Due to my family living on a farm, we couldn't afford to pay for a t.v. as we had to spend so much of our time taking care of our animals. Therefore, we had one home phone and one computer for everyone. Because of this I would only see a screen twice a week and only played video games on the computer. However, when I ended up moving several times over the next few years my interaction with media became much more complicated. I went from consuming around 30 minutes to an hour of media to now consuming around 4- 5 hours a day. My life has drastically changed because of this. I would almost say I have an addiction as when I am without my phone I'm always grabbing my pocket and get bored extremely easily. This has also applied to my reading. When I am reading a newspaper, article, a book or even an article online I find myself forgetting what I am reading about if I...

Recently in the news a tweet by a famous tv-show actor in a popular show called Roseanne was cancelled. Her tw eet  Barr tweeted the initials ‘vj’ and the words: ‘Muslim brotherhood & planet of the apes had a baby’. This quote was directed at former advisor for President Obama Valerie Jarret. As one might expect, this gained traction extremely fast and a show that had been running for 20 years was cancelled after a tweet that probably took less than 30 minutes to write up. This made me think about how much media can affect our lives negatively. We have all made mistakes on the internet, maybe not as horrible as Roseanne but coming close. How accountable for our actions are we for our social media? According to Roseanne we should always watch what we post on the internet because we never know how it could affect us one day.

This week in the news I saw something I never once thought I would see, at least not where and at the time. Kim Kardashian meeting with Donald Trump in the White House? While it may sound crazy, it is true. So, what was she there to talk about with Donald Trump? After all, it's not every day a celebrity widely known for her sex-tape get's to meet the president. According to several news outlets she was there    to grant clemency to Alice Marie Johnson, a 63-year-old great-grandmother who is serving a life sentence in a federal pen for a first-time, nonviolent drug offense. While this may seem important, it isn't hard to imagine there are several other cases like this. Why has Mrs. Kardashian been allowed to have a meeting with our president about this? Shouldn't he be focusing on other important issues right now? Who knows? I'm not the president.