Reporting News – The Consequences of Stereotypes
News media is fundamentally the main source of information for many worldwide. A simple yet powerful tool that can shape our values and beliefs. Unfortunately, with this comes various consequences as the media, in many aspects, has biased power. The news item used in this essay is a 2015 piece on Refugees presented by Fox News (The real story of Syrian refugees). The station is recognized for its Republican biased and stereotypical reporting. In addition to this their audience reach and views prove to have consequences for those who do not watch at all. The cultural hegemony and power struggles of the reporting is heavily influenced by European views.
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It puts into place the cultural hegemony that is present throughout society. The European view of Syrians is simply one of terrorists as the country is located in the Middle East. O'Reily performs the bias of the station as he endlessly brings up ISIS each time he references Syria. As the station repeats the ‘biased information it inevitably becomes incorporated into “common knowledge”’ (Ramasubramanian 251). The more it is enforced the harder it is to take away all negative associations. Eventually, the connotations are embedded into the viewer’s mind to the point it is hard to think in another …show more content…
It needs to be understood that in this time and age many people rely simply news reports for their view of the world. How one presents a news report affects what the audience perceives of it. He constantly emphasises the word terrorists and links them to refugees. With this practice he successfully plants a negative image of Syria within the viewer's mind. Many will not even question the facts as they trust the station to provide them with the correct information. This "public service" to inform viewers about what can happen to the country if refugees enter creates a harsh impact on the refugees themselves. It ignores the real struggle and the reason to escape their country. Unfortunately, due to Fox and its power this representation becomes believable for
News media is fundamentally the main source of information for many worldwide. A simple yet powerful tool that can shape our values and beliefs. Unfortunately, with this comes various consequences as the media, in many aspects, has biased power. The news item used in this essay is a 2015 piece on Refugees presented by Fox News (The real story of Syrian refugees). The station is recognized for its Republican biased and stereotypical reporting. In addition to this their audience reach and views prove to have consequences for those who do not watch at all. The cultural hegemony and power struggles of the reporting is heavily influenced by European views.
Race is known to be a social construction …show more content…
It puts into place the cultural hegemony that is present throughout society. The European view of Syrians is simply one of terrorists as the country is located in the Middle East. O'Reily performs the bias of the station as he endlessly brings up ISIS each time he references Syria. As the station repeats the ‘biased information it inevitably becomes incorporated into “common knowledge”’ (Ramasubramanian 251). The more it is enforced the harder it is to take away all negative associations. Eventually, the connotations are embedded into the viewer’s mind to the point it is hard to think in another …show more content…
It needs to be understood that in this time and age many people rely simply news reports for their view of the world. How one presents a news report affects what the audience perceives of it. He constantly emphasises the word terrorists and links them to refugees. With this practice he successfully plants a negative image of Syria within the viewer's mind. Many will not even question the facts as they trust the station to provide them with the correct information. This "public service" to inform viewers about what can happen to the country if refugees enter creates a harsh impact on the refugees themselves. It ignores the real struggle and the reason to escape their country. Unfortunately, due to Fox and its power this representation becomes believable for