This research question is worthy of study because through the years the media has become a huge part of our society and holds a great influence over us. Media will only continue to flourish with time, appealing to more and more people. Since the media influences many people , you have to think about what exactly is being promoted. Although 36% of the population consists of ethnic minorities only 10% of that is currently shown in media. In other words, the media continues to lack in diversity. Even so, the media has gone a long way through the years. There has been effort put into at least trying to make television programs more diverse by adding a few people of color into the cast. As it seems we still cannot obtain many people of color in
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People become easily coerced and reliant upon the media. When that message is also broadcasted to millions of people it becomes well known and often seen as the truth whether it actually is or isn’t. This seems like a reliable and convenient source to retain information from however they also come along with many biases. Media Matters for America issued a report of ethnic and gender diversity on prime-time cable news. Currently all hosts on prime-time cable news are white and the majority are male. The majority of the guests, 84%, on these shows are also white.Prime time cable lacks diversity the most. Fox 11 News has never since the start of the show has never had someone of ethnic minority be a host on the …show more content…
Although these expectations tend to differ from country to country, America’s definition of beauty abides by western beauty standards. The all American girl being of course blonde hair, blue eyes, wide eyed, slim, straight hair, etc. Such as in, “The Bluest Eye” by Toni Morrison, beauty is held by society’s standards of white attributions making beauty unattainable for the young black girls. The pressures of not being able to fit into this society leads to self hate and unhappiness.In the book the young girls had no one to look up to that resembled them and their culture. In our current society we have women of color on covers of magazines however when retouching is applied to the photos, the women are enhanced with caucasian traits, widening of the eyes and lightening of the skin. Even if you do find a magazine with a person of color on the cover, it has been
People become easily coerced and reliant upon the media. When that message is also broadcasted to millions of people it becomes well known and often seen as the truth whether it actually is or isn’t. This seems like a reliable and convenient source to retain information from however they also come along with many biases. Media Matters for America issued a report of ethnic and gender diversity on prime-time cable news. Currently all hosts on prime-time cable news are white and the majority are male. The majority of the guests, 84%, on these shows are also white.Prime time cable lacks diversity the most. Fox 11 News has never since the start of the show has never had someone of ethnic minority be a host on the …show more content…
Although these expectations tend to differ from country to country, America’s definition of beauty abides by western beauty standards. The all American girl being of course blonde hair, blue eyes, wide eyed, slim, straight hair, etc. Such as in, “The Bluest Eye” by Toni Morrison, beauty is held by society’s standards of white attributions making beauty unattainable for the young black girls. The pressures of not being able to fit into this society leads to self hate and unhappiness.In the book the young girls had no one to look up to that resembled them and their culture. In our current society we have women of color on covers of magazines however when retouching is applied to the photos, the women are enhanced with caucasian traits, widening of the eyes and lightening of the skin. Even if you do find a magazine with a person of color on the cover, it has been