With all of the madness going on in this day and age, the only way to stay current on the happenings of the world is to watch the news and hope for the best. Television has helped citizens remain informed on the world around them. Viewers can visit other countries, explore different cultures, and learn things they never would have been able to from the comfort of their La-Z-Boy recliner. The troubling mystery is if the media is trustworthy or not. Most would assume yes. Of course the news media is trustworthy- it’s on national television. It must be entirely factual, backed with solid evidence, the whole truth and nothing but. Despite the obligatory standard of factuality, it is entirely possible that the media is contorting our opinions on
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Broadcast journalism, as a whole, paints females as frail, fragile, and weak. We are the victims, never the heroes. Women are considered as the lesser sex, and in many aspects, are seen as an object--like a man’s toy or pet. A little trophy, always still and always quiet. This does not reflect who women truly are. To elaborate on this ideal, look back on the Olympics in Rio. Sarah Beauchamp, a writer for the Huffington Post, said it best when she described the Olympics as a reminder to “the world how a woman can’t accomplish anything without either being compared to a man who does the same thing, being labeled as a ‘wife’ or ‘mother’ above anything else, or being blatantly patronized on national television.” For instance, this year, after Corey Cogdell won her second bronze medal at the Olympics, the Chicago Tribune referred to her as “Wife of a Bears’ Lineman” as if that had anything to do with her incredible abilities. Cogdell slaved in the shooting range, diligently working to always be better, all to be labeled as merely a wife. Another illustration of this outright negligence is when an NBC commentator labeled three-time world champion Simone Biles as just as good as some of the male competitors (Beauchamp). This sexism is being thrusted on civilians everyday, and most do not even realize it. Narayana, a journalist for the Global Media Journal, asserts that scenarios like this bleed into the issue of sexism in news media. She contends that “media content portrays men as physically and mentally strong and superior to women.” But why is gender linked to one’s ability to succeed? It most certainly is not; it is just one example of the news media forcing the idea that women are weak into people’s brains forever. This bigotry professed by the media has maintained an impenetrable ceiling over the women in America, and we deserve to be
Broadcast journalism, as a whole, paints females as frail, fragile, and weak. We are the victims, never the heroes. Women are considered as the lesser sex, and in many aspects, are seen as an object--like a man’s toy or pet. A little trophy, always still and always quiet. This does not reflect who women truly are. To elaborate on this ideal, look back on the Olympics in Rio. Sarah Beauchamp, a writer for the Huffington Post, said it best when she described the Olympics as a reminder to “the world how a woman can’t accomplish anything without either being compared to a man who does the same thing, being labeled as a ‘wife’ or ‘mother’ above anything else, or being blatantly patronized on national television.” For instance, this year, after Corey Cogdell won her second bronze medal at the Olympics, the Chicago Tribune referred to her as “Wife of a Bears’ Lineman” as if that had anything to do with her incredible abilities. Cogdell slaved in the shooting range, diligently working to always be better, all to be labeled as merely a wife. Another illustration of this outright negligence is when an NBC commentator labeled three-time world champion Simone Biles as just as good as some of the male competitors (Beauchamp). This sexism is being thrusted on civilians everyday, and most do not even realize it. Narayana, a journalist for the Global Media Journal, asserts that scenarios like this bleed into the issue of sexism in news media. She contends that “media content portrays men as physically and mentally strong and superior to women.” But why is gender linked to one’s ability to succeed? It most certainly is not; it is just one example of the news media forcing the idea that women are weak into people’s brains forever. This bigotry professed by the media has maintained an impenetrable ceiling over the women in America, and we deserve to be