An Analysis of Fear and Loathing in Homer and Rockville

Inside the podcast called Fear and Loathing in Homer and Rockville, a journalist journeys to Homer, Alaska to investigate the small towns revolution on immigration during the Trump campaign. The small town’s issue fascinates the journalist, Brian Reed, because Homer doesn’t actually have an issue at all. There is literally no immigration in Homer, Alaska, as it’s the farthest corner of America. Nevertheless, Homer is split in two over whether they want to allow illegal immigrants into the town. One interviewee, Ben, describes why he was so torn over which side to pick, and explain is research method. He heard the New York times and Washington post had a bad rep. BBC gave a liberal bent. And the Rebel, a conservative Canadian news, wasn’t very trustworthy. Ben started looking at primary sources, like Cornel’s website to read up on immigration laws, trying to figure if sanctuary cities were even legal—they are not—and crime stats from the German ministry from the interior. He also looked at Brightbart, a rightwing nationalist site formally run by Donald trumps strategist, that is proudly anti-immigration. When it came to Ben’s research, he quickly discovered how deceitful most news outlets could be, and went in deeper to discover facts and the history of events for himself. A lot of the research Ben did that was mentioned in the podcast proved what Ben already thought about the immigration issue. He kept going back to an event in Germany where immigrants where sexually assaulting women. In the podcasts, they didn’t mention Ben reading about how much help immigrants needed.

When it comes to how I find my research, I try to find primary sources rather than secondary, and find multiple places with the info to compare. I honestly don’t think people cannot be biased, because everyone has feeling.