Leah Williams
English 131 ZX
08 October 2017
Dr. Clarissa West-White
Arguementative
Media
In the modern era it is almost impossible to find any media outlet that reports without racial bias. The media focuses on predominantly negative aspects of minorities lives without doing and giving a full investigation, coverage, and analysis of the situation. With any number of people watching the news and not fact checking or getting the full story, this will eventually lead to masses of people believing that what they see on TV is the full truth without question. This mindset gives those very same people unconscious biases. The media needs to focus on broadcasting without prejudice to minimize the subliminal effect it has on many of its viewers.
Minorities are often portrayed in a more negative way on TV than they are in real life. Academic feminist and activist Yasmin Jiwani has come to discover “In several recent studies of the major dailies, it has been found that coverage pertaining to people of colour and aboriginal peoples tends to cluster around particular themes - crime, …show more content…
William. “Stop Blaming the Media” Who Rules America?. “http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/change/media.html”.
Horton, Yurii, et al. “Poverty & Prejudice: Media and Race.” PORTRAYAL OF MINORITIES IN THE FILM, MEDIA AND ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRIES, 1 June 1999, “web.stanford.edu/class/e297c/poverty_prejudice/mediarace/portrayal.htm”.
Jiwani, Yasmin. "Racism and the Media." Stop Racism and Hate Canada. “www.stopracism.ca/content/racism-and-media”.
Ponds, Kenneth. "The Trauma of Racism: America's Original Sin." Reclaiming children and youth, vol. 22, no. 2, Summer 2013. p.3. ERIC, Access no. EJI030317.
Sherri Burr, “Television and Societal Effects: an Analysis of Media Images of African-Americans in Historical Context” Race Racism and the Law.
English 131 ZX
08 October 2017
Dr. Clarissa West-White
Arguementative
Media
In the modern era it is almost impossible to find any media outlet that reports without racial bias. The media focuses on predominantly negative aspects of minorities lives without doing and giving a full investigation, coverage, and analysis of the situation. With any number of people watching the news and not fact checking or getting the full story, this will eventually lead to masses of people believing that what they see on TV is the full truth without question. This mindset gives those very same people unconscious biases. The media needs to focus on broadcasting without prejudice to minimize the subliminal effect it has on many of its viewers.
Minorities are often portrayed in a more negative way on TV than they are in real life. Academic feminist and activist Yasmin Jiwani has come to discover “In several recent studies of the major dailies, it has been found that coverage pertaining to people of colour and aboriginal peoples tends to cluster around particular themes - crime, …show more content…
William. “Stop Blaming the Media” Who Rules America?. “http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/change/media.html”.
Horton, Yurii, et al. “Poverty & Prejudice: Media and Race.” PORTRAYAL OF MINORITIES IN THE FILM, MEDIA AND ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRIES, 1 June 1999, “web.stanford.edu/class/e297c/poverty_prejudice/mediarace/portrayal.htm”.
Jiwani, Yasmin. "Racism and the Media." Stop Racism and Hate Canada. “www.stopracism.ca/content/racism-and-media”.
Ponds, Kenneth. "The Trauma of Racism: America's Original Sin." Reclaiming children and youth, vol. 22, no. 2, Summer 2013. p.3. ERIC, Access no. EJI030317.
Sherri Burr, “Television and Societal Effects: an Analysis of Media Images of African-Americans in Historical Context” Race Racism and the Law.