Media Argumentative Essay

Betrayal or Portrayal; Argumentative/Persuasive Essay Take a minute, look around the room. Is there anyone in the room of a different ethnicity? Anyone in the room a different race? As you look around the room do you feel safe? Have you watched any type of media lately? Chances are most people would feel safe in a classroom with different ethnicities or race. However, some would not. Thanks to the impact media has in today’s society, more and more people have become more afraid of African American males. Media has a funny way of negatively changing the views of African Americans in our society. In any type of media the African Americans are the ones being publicised more frequently for violence. Media has an impact on the way people portray African Americans, as dangerous. Although Media plays a dramatic role in the view of African American’s in society, it is not media that has taught us to be afraid. Society in itself brings us that lesson. There have been so many different, reasons for the way “racism” has come about in our country. Racism as a hole has …show more content…
For example I would have never know about the Michael Brown case, The missouri football strike if it was not for the twenty-four hour coverage on every news channel. The only way our nation finds anything is out is by the medias we have cooped up in our hands. The media would not be a bad thing, if they were taught how to properly report a controversial story. If it has to deal with any subject that can be made into a bigger deal than it already is, the words that these reports say really need to be neutral. When I turn on a TV and the first thing I see on the news is a “WHITE TEENAGER STABBED BY BLACK CLASSMATE.” I am going to look at that heading and wonder what 's new this happened last week. While I would rarely ever see “BLACK TEENAGER STABBED BY WHITE CLASSMATE.” on the news. This is where we need to focus the issues