Powerful Effects of Media
On the morning of August 29th, 2005 hurricane Katrina was beginning to hit the Gulf Coast. The storm began as a category three on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale, and it included winds that could range from 100-140 miles per hour and stretched over 400 miles across land. As the storm traveled over land it brought a remarkable amount of disasters over Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama yet the aftermath of the storm was the most appalling because the town’s levees were breached by the rain Katrina brought, which then resulted in flooding. Thousands and thousands of people from Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama were all evacuated from their homes, and experts claimed that the estimated amount of damage Katrina caused was more than $100 billion. Yet with all of these damages, somehow the media was able to add to the national tension surrounding Katrina by encouraging racism within this disaster as they misrepresented the data about the African American community.
Racism within media coverage of Katrina is a larger issue that has yet to be solved due to various interpretations of the chaos. Julian Bond, who is the chairman of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, has stressed his concern on multiple occasions on how the representation of photographs from this disaster is entirely …show more content…
The dairy display case was clearly visible through the windows. It was now 48 hours without electricity, running water, plumbing, and the milk, yogurt, and cheeses were beginning to spoil in the 90-degree heat. The owners and managers had locked up the food, water, pampers and prescriptions, and fled the city. Outside Walgreens’ windows, residents and tourists grew increasingly thirsty and hungry. The windows at Walgreens gave way to the looters. (NY
On the morning of August 29th, 2005 hurricane Katrina was beginning to hit the Gulf Coast. The storm began as a category three on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale, and it included winds that could range from 100-140 miles per hour and stretched over 400 miles across land. As the storm traveled over land it brought a remarkable amount of disasters over Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama yet the aftermath of the storm was the most appalling because the town’s levees were breached by the rain Katrina brought, which then resulted in flooding. Thousands and thousands of people from Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama were all evacuated from their homes, and experts claimed that the estimated amount of damage Katrina caused was more than $100 billion. Yet with all of these damages, somehow the media was able to add to the national tension surrounding Katrina by encouraging racism within this disaster as they misrepresented the data about the African American community.
Racism within media coverage of Katrina is a larger issue that has yet to be solved due to various interpretations of the chaos. Julian Bond, who is the chairman of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, has stressed his concern on multiple occasions on how the representation of photographs from this disaster is entirely …show more content…
The dairy display case was clearly visible through the windows. It was now 48 hours without electricity, running water, plumbing, and the milk, yogurt, and cheeses were beginning to spoil in the 90-degree heat. The owners and managers had locked up the food, water, pampers and prescriptions, and fled the city. Outside Walgreens’ windows, residents and tourists grew increasingly thirsty and hungry. The windows at Walgreens gave way to the looters. (NY