#J. Polgreen

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Marvel at These Fabulous Retro-Futurism Illustrations

We never get tired of digging through the sci-fi archives, finding fascinating tidbits from the optimistic, golden age of space fiction from the 1930s, 40s, and 50s. We’re enthralled by the audacity of the concepts. The sheer confidence and unbridled creativity of the inventions, which never came to pass. There’s something about retro-futurism that gets us excited. Here’s a curated collection…

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Desigualdade: Um Estudo Revelador sobre o Papel da Classe e da Raça na Mobilidade Social nos EUA

Em uma recente coluna de opinião, Lydia Polgreen argumentou que, se Kamala Harris for rotulada como uma candidata de Diversidade, Equidade e Inclusão (DEI), então o mesmo deveria valer para J. D. Vance. Ela baseia essa posição em uma pesquisa de um estudioso da Universidade Tufts que afirma que universidades de elite, como Yale, onde Vance se formou, oferecem apoio adicional a estudantes brancos…

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Capturing Attention in Social Media

How long do you have to capture a viewer’s attention? 8 seconds! Capturing attention in social media is a task that is forever changing. What caught user’s eye’s yesterday, may not today. And as time passes users attentions spans are getting smaller and smaller. This requires platforms to have content that immediately grabs the user’s eyes, this is imperative to the success of social media, capturing attention equals more potential viewers and followers.

Challenges in capturing viewers’ attention are lack of attention span, and un-authentic content. Humans today have so many distractions and have so much technology all around that we don’t wait to see if something interests us for long. Platforms trying to catch our eye have only a few seconds to do so. Un-authentic content is also a deterrent to capturing users’ attention. Social media and websites tend to get mundane and un-original. If a user feels like they are viewing something they have in the past, they will look no further.

Strategies for gaining viewer attention in social media are presenting up to date- real time content, posting emotionally stimulating content, and posting visually stimulating content. The social media world is changing every second; breaking news, pop culture, and medical discoveries are a few examples of the ever-changing content viewers are searching to get their up to date fix. If content is not relevant a user will immediately go on to the next platform. Research has shown posting emotionally stimulating content, such as motivational quotes or pictures significantly captures viewers attention. “Moral and emotional content have a high potential to capture attention because both emotional and moral stimuli are motivationally relevant. Thus, emotional stimuli can shape perceptual experience through decreased thresholds for attentional capture leading people to notice emotional content” (Brady et al. 2019). Emotionally stimulating content can give the user a sense of belonging and well-being, which helps to capture viewers attention. While visually stimulating content is the most common form of attention-grabbing techniques. Creating a visually grabbing platform using images, colors, sounds, are often the first source for grabbing a viewer’s eye.

Maintaining Engagement in Social Media

After you have grabbed your viewers’ attention, how do you get them to stay on your page, and keep coming back? You have to secure their engagement. This means lock the users in by either liking, commenting, subscribing, or sharing your content. Strategies that have been shown to be effective in maintaining engagement on social media are quick and consistent responses to viewers, posting content that encourages viewers to engage, and creating posts with positive sentiment. Timely replies to comments and questions further engagement and can build relationships and an environment where the user is comfortable and will want to return. Posting content that encourages engagement such as questions and give-a-ways hooks the viewer in and leads to them becoming a follower or a subscriber. While creating posts with positive sentiment have been linked to higher engagement rates. A research article on social media engagement in the U.S. states “Statistical analysis shows, for instance, that Facebook posts with more visual cues such as photos or videos or those which express positive sentiment generate more engagement” (Bhattacharya 2017). In conclusion, I believe posting positive sentiment creates a friendly environment where users feel more comfortable to engage.

Reference:

Bhattacharya, S., Srinivasan, P., & Polgreen, P. (2017). Social media engagement analysis of U.S. federal health agencies on facebook. BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 17 doi:http://dx.doi.org.library.capella.edu/10.1186/s12911-017-0447-z

Brady, W. J., Gantman, A. P., & Van Bavel, J. J. (2019). Attentional capture helps explain why moral and emotional content go viral. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 1–11.

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On Saturday, President Donald Trump provided his take on the layoffs which have taken place at BuzzFeed and the Huffington Post. The president’s remarks come as he maintains a contentious relationship with left-leaning outlets, such as the aforementioned.

Reviewing President Trump’s Commentary

The president shared his take on the latest developments via Twitter. His commentary reads as follows:

“Ax falls quickly at BuzzFeed and Huffpost!” Headline, New York Post. Fake News and bad journalism have caused a big downturn. Sadly, many others will follow. The people want the Truth!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 26, 2019

However, Ben Smith, the Editor-In-Chief at BuzzFeed and Lydia Polgreen, the Editor-In-Chief at the Huffington Post, each censured President Trump’s remarks in their own tweets.

What a disgusting thing to say about dozens of American workers who just lost their jobs. https://t.co/hSnRD5NtpF

— Ben Smith (@BuzzFeedBen) January 26, 2019

1,000 journalists lost their jobs last week. Ordinary people with rent to pay, families to support, student loan bills coming due. They are workers like any other who do not deserve this cruelty. https://t.co/WCtuZ6iRVx

— Lydia Polgreen (@lpolgreen) January 26, 2019

It’s interesting that Smith and Polgreen chose to direct their anger towards President Trump and not the companies which elected to lay off members of their staff.

In light of the aforementioned layoffs, many Americans are speculating that incorrect coverage regarding the standoff between Covington high schoolers and adult protesters is a contributing factor, coupled with reports on the president and his alleged ties to the Russian government. Countless individuals have ongoingly spoken out about their disdain for fake news.

Despite the manufactured outrage from Smith and Polgreen, President Trump is not the only American who maintains his stance on the layoffs at BuzzFeed and The Huffington Post. Like the president, other people of this country chimed in with their thoughts on the reasons behind the layoffs:

You think it’s a coincidence that mainstream outlets like #Buzzfeed and #HuffingtonPost are firing journalists and making major cuts after the media attacked kids? They can no longer damage control, this is defeat.

— Laura (@womaninmedicine) January 25, 2019

No one should feel bad for the fake news pushers fired from Huffington Post and Buzzfeed — They destroy lives and we should revel in their demise

— Jacob Wohl (@JacobAWohl) January 25, 2019

Call me callous but I think publications like BuzzFeed, Huffington Post and Vox are clickbait garbage that do more damage to our country/world than good. I stopped reading their divisive drivel long ago.

— Adam N. Mayer (@AdamNMayer) January 25, 2019

What do you think about BuzzFeed and The Huffington Post laying off their journalists? Do you agree with President Trump’s take? Let us know in the comments section below!

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The Huffington Post is a strange bird; once co-conceived by Andrew Breitbart himself as a bipartisan publication, it now is infamous for legitimizing some of the most radical left-wing rhetoric ever written. Some of the highlights from this award-winning publication’s articles over the years include such gems as “America Could Be Great, But You’ll Be Dead By Then,” and “If You Don’t Vote Democrat This November, Then F*ck You,” among others.

As it turns out, the author responsible for both of those atrocities, “journalist” Chis Cali, wrote another quite recently: “Trump Supporters Deserve to Die More Than I Do.”

Yes, that is correct– The Huffington Post actually published an article with a headline stating that a certain political demographic “deserved to die.”

According to Cassandra Fairbanks:

The ranting blogger asserts that Trump supporters “hate immigrants and blacks and Jews and gays and women and trans people in bathrooms,” and that they “can’t wait to see you deported or dead.” He also claims that Trump supporters “want to call you a ‘n-gger’ to your face and dare you to do something about it.”

While his breathless and hysterical claims are obviously false, in most cases, the author goes on to declare his disdain for people in flyover states who would dare to vote for their own interests. He claims that the people “he knows” who live in “New York, Los Angeles, Miami and San Francisco” are the good people who want to “leave the world a better place than they found it,” and “embrace the differences that make us all human” — ironically praising diversity while fantasizing about the death of those with ideological views that differ from his own.

“So sorry not sorry, but the ones who actually deserve to have a nuke dropped on them first are the ones who voted to get us all into this mess,” Cali wrote, adding that “the world really wouldn’t miss them one itty bitty damn bit.”

Referencing the current rise in overdoses in the small town’s he detests so fully, Cali morbidly writes that “if a bunch of these hypocrites who chanted ‘lock her up’ overdose on Oxy and decimate their Podunk towns, honestly, the human species will be better off without them.”

When questioned by Free Beacon reporter Alex Griswold if the Huffington Post has “any editorial standards at all,” Huffington Post’s Editor in Chief Lydia Polgreen responded saying that they do, and noted that it was “deleted almost immediately after it appeared.”

Well, at least there is that. One wonders, however, how such dreck managed to make it to the published phase in the first place– even for a moment. But Fairbanks unfortunately has more news:

Responding to the backlash he is now facing online, Cali tweeted “racists/bigots bothered by an article that was meant to bother them,” with a laughing emoji. He also tweeted that he stands by his article.

Of course he does.

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Judge Jeanine Calls For Paul Ryan To Quit — Hours After Trump Plugged Her Show!

"Paul Ryan needs to step down as speaker of the house.The reason? He failed to deliver the votes on his healthcare bill." #openingstatement http://pic.twitter.com/75WbI4mcYX

— Jeanine Pirro (@JudgeJeanine) March 26, 2017

Former prosecutor Jeanine Pirro opened her Fox News show Saturday by calling for Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) to step down as Speaker of the House — hours after President Donald Trump posted a tweet telling his followers to tune in.

The host of “Justice with Judge Jeanine” launched the blistering attack in the wake of the failure of the Obamacare repeal bill, known as the American Health Care Act, which was withdrawn by Republicans ahead of its scheduled vote Friday in the House of Representatives.

Watch @JudgeJeanine on @FoxNews tonight at 9:00 P.M.

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 25, 2017

Pirro used her opening statement to downplay Trump’s role in the fiasco, placing blame for the bill’s demise squarely on the speaker.

“Paul Ryan needs to step down,” she said. “The reason? He failed to deliver the votes on his health care bill ... The one that he had seven years to work on ... The one that had to be pulled to prevent the embarrassment of not having enough votes to pass.”

She added: “I want to be clear. This is not on President Trump. No one expected a business man to completely understand the nuances, the complicated ins and outs of Washington and its legislative process.”

Pirro said Ryan was culpable for not securing enough votes to pass the bill, despite all of his “swagger and experience” in Congress.

Calling the bill a “total and complete failure,” the host lambasted Ryan for taking on health care reform so early in the president’s term, noting that the Ryan should have known better, especially since Trump is “a complete outsider.”

“How could you possibly misjudge this?” she thundered.

“I can only imagine that he and his aides took on health care because they believed you [Ryan] had his back, and you didn’t.”

On Friday, President Trump praised Ryan for working “very, very hard” on the bill, while blaming Democrats for its failure.

But on Saturday, many on Twitter found it curious that Trump promoted Pirro’s show hours before she vehemently demanded Ryan resign.

During her rant, Pirro insisted that she “certainly” hadn’t spoken to the president “about any of this,” despite Trump’s earlier tweet. 

Trump told people on Twitter to watch @JudgeJeanine. She began her show calling for Speaker Ryan to resign. Coincidence? I'm sure!

— Josh Dawsey (@jdawsey1) March 26, 2017

NOTE: The first thing Jeanine Pirro said tonight: "Paul Ryan needs to step down as Speaker of the House." https://t.co/kIPnvzXnBQ

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) March 26, 2017

Trump tweeted a promo for Judge Pirro's Fox show this AM, reason unclear. Tonight, she began her show calling for Ryan to resign. ....? http://pic.twitter.com/iRTAAtI6oY

— Steve Kopack (@SteveKopack) March 26, 2017

Trump yesterday: "I don't blame Paul." Trump today: "Watch this!!!" https://t.co/WppCYlhwYw

— Lydia Polgreen (@lpolgreen) March 26, 2017

This morning @POTUS tweeted: "Watch @JudgeJeanine on @FoxNews tonight at 9:00 P.M." https://t.co/kgFwkkbT8G

— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) March 26, 2017

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Is the media at war with Donald Trump?

The Trump White House has made clear that it views much of the press as the “opposition party.”

But that feeling isn’t mutual.

“We are not the opposition party,” said Huffington Post editor-in-chief Lydia Polgreen on CNN’s “Reliable Sources” Sunday.

Polgreen joined editors and media critics who largely dismissed that characterization, which was made by White House chief strategist Steve Bannon and then President Trump himself last week.

“I think our job in all of this is to separate fact from fiction, to use the very best tools in our arsenal, to tell the stories that matter, and tell them with integrity and with honesty, and basically ignore this effort to frame us as the enemy,” Polgreen said.”

Related: Trump echoes Bannon: Media is ‘opposition party’

Bannon said in an interview with the New York Times published Thursday that the news media “should be embarrassed and humiliated and keep its mouth shut and just listen for awhile.”

“I want you to quote this,” Bannon told the Times. “The media here is the opposition party. They don’t understand this country. They still do not understand why Donald Trump is the president of the United States.”

Trump later lashed out specifically at the Times on Sunday, tweeting that someone should buy the “failing newspaper” and “either run it correctly or let it fold with dignity!”

Somebody with aptitude and conviction should buy the FAKE NEWS and failing @nytimes and either run it correctly or let it fold with dignity!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 29, 2017

Speaking on “Reliable Sources,” Reuters editor-in-chief Stephen Adler said he could think of very few countries where the government says “nice things” about the press.

The press, Adler said, tries to get factual information to people so they can make smarter decisions.

“Inherently, the government is trying to spin the story in their favor,” he said.

Brooke Gladstone, a journalist and media analyst who hosts WNYC’s “On the Media,” said critical coverage of a new administration isn’t anything unusual.

Gladstone cited a George Mason University study which found that a majority of coverage of the first year of the last several presidential administrations was negative.

“All through history, the entire media have always been against presidents,” Gladstone said.

Joel Pollak, a senior editor at large for Breitbart News, said he thinks some journalists “revel” in opposing the president, a trait he said is not necessarily an appropriate role.

“I think there are journalists who declared in advance on the campaign trail that they were proud to be the opposing party,” Pollak said. “That’s just continued, and I think that’s a big mistake the media are making.”

CNNMoney (New York) First published January 29, 2017: 1:00 PM ET