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(Featured image taken from “Mike Pompeo goes to war on wikileaks” on The national interest)

Lies. Fake news. President Trump and his staff have been smearing journalism with these labels since the start of his presidency.

Because of that, I wasn’t surprised to hear that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo avoided answering interview questions on NPR and released an angry statement against reporter Mary Louise Kelly.

Sec. of State Mike Pompeo’s official statement against Mary Louise Kelly (state.gov)

But reporter Jason Breslow creatively caught my attention with an intriguing headline:

Pompeo Won’t Say If He Owes Yovanovitch an Apology. ‘I’ve Done What’s Right.’

After that, Breslow created bold subheadings to sustain my curiosity.

But creativity aside, would this article pass John McManus’s “SMELL” Test?

It’s time for us to stop and smell the prose(s).

The Social (Media) Butterfly

Sharing Too Much & Reading Too Little

This whole blog post is based on the media log below.

From the moment this blog was assigned, I already knew what would dominate my media diet: social media.

My media consumption varies throughout the week. I still check Snapchat while going to class, but because I’m so focused on schoolwork, I’m not glued to my phone on weekdays.

But on weekends, I never put down my phone.

I’m a social butterfly, so I really like interacting with people. When I’m on my phone, naturally, I constantly check on my friends. I guess that also makes me a social media butterfly…

Not an actual butterfly like Heimlich here, but a social one. (GIF by hello-claudia33 on Tumblr)

When I was tracking my media consumption on Friday, I thought I wouldn’t be using social media as much because I was hanging out with my high school friends. We were even watching an ITZY concert, which meant even more time away from my phone… right?

Wrong. I still used social media just as much, if not more.