Shout out to the hardest working man in social media right now. Zuckerberg wishes he was Brajesh! Thanks a lot man because a lot of your answers online has helped me.
1. I removed the code and reinstalled mediapress. Upon activation I got the fatal error again.
2. Do I need to go into debugging mode for debug.log to show up in wp-content?
I will continue to look for the location of my php error logs to better assist.