Blog assignment 4

On March 6, President Trump signed a revised immigration executive order suspending six major Muslim countries from immigration. Regarding this second executive order, the cable news such as CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC hosted guest discussions. Nina Mest, a researcher at Media Matters for America, points out the problem on March 8 in her commentary called "When Discussing Trump's Muslim Ban 2.0, Cable News Largely Excluded Muslim Guests Again." 

The intended audience for this editorial is those who are interested in Trump's executive order. Mest claims that the news ignored Muslim voices when the executive order affects them directly. For example, CNN had 2 Muslim guests out of 32 guests and FOX News had 0 Muslim guests out of 17 guests. The guests who were invited mostly include journalists, anti-immigrant, politicians, and some of them included white supremacists. This ignorance in news has been around for past few decades. This also happened after the mass shooting in Orlando in 2016. Mest points out the need to feature Muslim and refugee voices with all the "anti-Muslim hate crimes and an administration attempting to implement government-sanctioned discrimination." 

This illustrates the reality of the current American society; the voices of minorities are hardly heard. Islamophobia exists and the hatred already went beyond a certain point.The  I recently watched a Youtube video comparing reactions of people to a white and a Muslim woman. They both asked the random person to keep their bags while they go to the restroom, and the reactions were completely opposite. While people were nice to the white woman, they acted negatively to the Muslim woman. Some cursed at her and called out her terrorist even though the Muslim woman was crying. About 20-30 people were around, but only 1 person helped when she was bullied by people. Especially the news media, which have to be impartial and deliver the accurate information to people, should not have ignored the Muslim voices. I agree that there needs to be an improvement and fairness in the media.