Elder Abuse And The Media

In 2015 the media has a large impact on how we see certain groups of people and certain issues. It has the ability to only focus on the negatives of certain issues and to enhance the details in stories to have a larger shock factor which is something that they try to aim from rather than telling to hard truth and showing the things people need to see. The articles that I have chooses are just a small portion of the media showing abuse to the viewers.

The first article is about elder abuse and it not being spoken about and not being reported when it is witnessed. Margaret MacPherson the head of a campaign called “It’s Not Right ! “ which was created to stop elder abuse and to change social norms of bystanders and turn them into the first people …show more content…
In the article its spoke about the campaign trying to change how people view older adults and the demeaning language that is used against them (Goar, 2015). While analyzing the article a connection began to form with the article and the topic of media analysis and the way that older adults are presented to the public and the media’s eye. The media will paint a picture of a diverse community to send out a specific message by creating an image that will only send out that message and one of the diverse communities are older adults (Goveas, 2015). The article brings out that people think of older adults a specific way and they think of them very negatively and some if not a lot of the views that people can have of older adults is due to the media and propaganda by reporting and conveying particular type of information that will increase the viewer’s negative views (Goveas, 2015). Some of the negative views that the media presents is that older adult are just old and the can sometimes be related to babies because they are very needy but they are also most times seen as a burden that people don’t want to take care of and they just send them to retirement homes. The population of older adults are need more representation to show that they aren’t just dependent on other but, they can also be very independent and most of the times we don’t see any positive representation. As a social worker it is important to let the client know that they are much more then what the media might say that they are and another important thing for a social worker should do is help build opportunity to show them and others they are independent and not everyone is the same. As Journalist it is important to cover different ages and cultural backgrounds and just have a broader population to work with instead of maybe working with