{"id":3741,"date":"2015-03-05T06:01:29","date_gmt":"2015-03-05T11:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/?p=3741"},"modified":"2015-03-05T06:02:13","modified_gmt":"2015-03-05T11:02:13","slug":"theres-always-another-side-to-the-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/theres-always-another-side-to-the-story\/","title":{"rendered":"There\u2019s always another side to the story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By CHELSEY SELLARS<\/p>\n<p>As I placed my items on the grocery store conveyor belt, I glanced over at the gum<br \/>\nand\u00a0magazine rack.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/GL10C1A_2015.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3742\" src=\"http:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/GL10C1A_2015-260x300.jpg\" alt=\"GL10C1A_2015\" width=\"260\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/GL10C1A_2015-260x300.jpg 260w, https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/GL10C1A_2015-886x1024.jpg 886w, https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/GL10C1A_2015.jpg 1379w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 260px) 100vw, 260px\" \/><\/a>Upon all the fashion and sugary goods, I found a picture of President Obama\u2019s contorted face on the cover of the <em>lovely <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.globemagazine.com\/content\/doctors-say-obama-insane\" target=\"_blank\">Globe<\/a>: In small print next to Obama\u2019s face, once you get past the bright yellow \u201cpsychopathic rages\u201d and \u201cegomania\u201d accusations, reads \u201cmaking crazy faces in healthcare video February 2015.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Globe<\/em> is infamous in America for its questionable headlines and material, so naturally I was skeptical about these allegations. I quickly Googled \u201cObama makes faces\u201d and stumbled upon this quirky video of Obama teaming up with BuzzFeed to remind millenials of the deadline for Obamacare:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Obama&#039;s BuzzFeed Video: Selfie Sticks &amp; Cookies | msnbc\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HtBhM2wo2BQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The clip is called \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/andrewgauthier\/the-president-uses-a-selfie-stick#.unLbb2YLd2\" target=\"_blank\">Things Everybody Does But Doesn\u2019t Talk Abou<\/a>t,\u201d which features Obama taking selfies and <em>making bizarre faces<\/em> in the mirror. I realized that the picture from <em>Globe<\/em> was the same one as this screenshot of the video.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/HtBhM2wo2BQ\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  wp-image-3744 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/face-300x233.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"332\" height=\"260\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As stated before, <em>Globe<\/em> is notorious for creating tabloids, but what if you did not know that first hand? What if you were in America as a traveler, and happened to see this crazy headline? You might believe it and go on to share the news.<\/p>\n<p>The media are there to inform the public of what is going on beyond their backyard. However, we cannot be sponges and simply absorb the information. I believe that we should always yearn for knowledge and have some skepticism when it comes to media; the more we investigate, the more media literate we will become.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By CHELSEY SELLARS As I placed my items on the grocery store conveyor belt, I glanced over at the gum and\u00a0magazine rack. Upon all the fashion and sugary goods, I found a picture of President Obama\u2019s contorted face on the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/theres-always-another-side-to-the-story\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[198],"tags":[37,99,58],"class_list":["post-3741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chelsey-sellars","tag-journalism-ethics","tag-political-reporting","tag-professionalism"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3741"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3749,"href":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3741\/revisions\/3749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}